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Earlier this month, the actual play phenomenon Critical Role announced a pretty big shakeup for its upcoming fourth campaign. Matt Mercer, who had led each of the group’s previous stories as the game master, will instead take on a player role, and Dimension 20’s Brennan Lee Mulligan will step up to lead the next campaign … Read more
Hell Let Loose: Vietnam was on at least one fan’s Gamescom 2025 bingo card. “Hear me out: ‘Hell let loose Vietnam,’” they wrote on the Hell Let Loose subreddit at the start of 2025. Now that fan has fished their wish, as the game’s announcement trailer delivers the sequel that Battlefield players are still waiting … Read more
The recent Battlefield 6 open beta was a massive success for EA and Battlefield Studios, amassing over half a million concurrent players on Steam. But some players weren’t happy about how fast and jumpy movement could be in the online FPS, and others felt the shotgun was too powerful. Now EA has announced that hopping … Read more
Overwatch 2’s next season is bringing a water-bending hero, some major overhauls to its build-based Stadium mode, and new Perks for every character on the roster. I’m not here to talk about all that. I’m here to talk about the collaboration I could not have fathomed that was teased at the very end of the … Read more
2K and developer Visual Concepts have released a new trailer for the upcoming NBA 2K26 MyCareer cinematic-style story mode, Out of Bounds. The trailer, narrated by legendary director Spike Lee (who famously wrote and directed the 2K16 entry), shows your player going from the high school court, to watching the Draft with their family, to … Read more
After six years, the clowning is over. Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming to a PC, Switch, Xbox, or PlayStation near you on September 4. Silksong has been conspicuously absent from industry events for so long that the act of anticipating the elusive Metroidvania has become a meme in and of itself. Now that it’s imminent, … Read more
Star Trek: Voyager is a very unlikely subject for one of the best games of the turn of the millennium. And yet, that game exists! Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force was one of the best FPS games of its generation! Heck, Elite Force II was pretty damned good, too, and there was almost a Looking Glass … Read more
Hollow Knight: Silksong will arrive seven years after the first game. Why? That’s what fans have been impatiently wondering for a while now. According to the developers at Team Cherry, there was no major drama or development snafus. Seven years is just how long it takes to make the Metroidvania Soulslike sequel to what some … Read more
Welcome back to Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku’s daily round-up of video game news and other stuff you might care about. Today we have information about the future of Forza, news about Sony and EVO, and some fresh details about that new Lego Batman game. Also: get excited about The Gorillaz coming to Fortnite. The Gorillaz are … Read more
Every version of the PlayStation 5 is now $50 more expensive in the U.S., but at least for now, a new deal at GameStop will cover the difference. The meme stock retailer announced it will start giving anyone who trades in their last-gen consoles an extra $50 in-store credit toward the purchase of a new … Read more