Batman Past and Static Shock are teaming up once more, the religious successor to Patapon lastly has a launch date, and there’s all the time a much bigger PC gaming handheld, apparently. It’s Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news, culture, and other ephemera. But before we begin, there’s an essential replace. Our hoagie hero from earlier within the week? He was caught and charged with “forcefully” throwing a Subway sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent. A lot for consuming recent.
Can your Swap 2 do that?
No, no it can’t. As reported by VideoCardz, a DIY modder posting on Bilibili took a RTX 4090 laptop computer, stripped it down, and repurposed it right into a handheld. It sports activities a 12.5-inch show and a Core i9 processor, plus 64GB of DDR5 reminiscence. The present cooling system apparently vents sufficient warmth to maintain the GPU beneath 160 levels. I don’t assume this one goes to win any awards for battery life, however working Horizon Forbidden West and different PS5 video games at 4K in your palms isn’t any small feat. I’m principally impressed with the looks, which has a sure attraction regardless of being nearer to a contestant on Robotic Wars than a mass market gadget. It makes Acer’s Nitro Blaze 11 look almost normal by comparison.
On whether or not Tekken 8 will get ported
With Road Fighter 6 being a launch sport for Swap 2 (and an honest model at that), it looks like a no brainer for Bandai Namco’s 3D fighter to make the soar as effectively. Is a Tekken 8 port already within the works or nonetheless one thing followers should anticipate? “It’s an interesting option, and not totally off the table,” collection director Katsuhiro Harada stated at Evo earlier this month (via Eurogamer). “But it would require a lot of work on the game to get it running on that hardware.”
However it feels like Harada nonetheless hasn’t decided. “From a business standpoint, [the Switch 2] is doing quite well, so it would be a very good business decision if you’re trying to get a bigger audience. But the amount of work that would have to be done on the game makes it not a very easy decision. At this point in time, there are no…(laughs)…there is nothing to announce.”
Whereas Tekken Tag Match 2 was on Wii U, no numbered entry within the collection has ever appeared on a Nintendo platform. Harada additionally just lately stated he doesn’t think it would make sense to make a brand new Tekken Tag, with it being extra sensible to only add that as a mode to the prevailing sport.
Starbucks asks clients in Korea to cease treating it like an workplace
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South Korea is known for its PC bang web cafes, however what when you’ve got the tools already and simply want a spot to plug in? In response to The Korea Herald (by way of PC Gamer), clients have been bringing full-on workplace setups to their native Starbucks, full in some excessive instances with printers and cubicle dividers. Because of this, Starbucks shops within the nation have been placing out mild notices on tables reminding patrons that it’s not a free WeWork area. I’m going to attempt to throw my subsequent LAN social gathering at Burger King.
Tales information is on the way in which, together with a possible remaster of Xillia
Bandai Namco Europe apparently let slip a thumbnail on YouTube for an upcoming showcase seemingly scheduled for August 18 that would come with updates on the Tales RPG collection. Included within the rapidly eliminated screenshot was a reference to a rumored Tales of Xillia remaster. The 2013 sport got here out on the tail finish of the PS3’s lifecycle and was largely well-received by fans, minus some actually clunky English voice appearing.
Batman/Static: Past is a six-issue collection coming this fall
Comics are nonetheless one of many hardest mediums to maintain up with, however something Batman Past-related all the time has my consideration. So I used to be excited to see DC announced a new limited-run series with Terry McGinnis and Static Shock’s Virgil Hawkins teaming up for the second time to face new techno-infused threats collectively. And that was earlier than I spotted that Kotaku alum Evan Narcisse was writing it with artist Nikolas Draper-Ivey!
“This story is intended to be a commentary on our overreliance on technology and the imminent dangers becoming complacent and too comfortable using AI to substitute our own imagination and human ingenuity,” the artist stated. “We now use our watches to find our phones, we use our phones to connect to everything else. We don’t rely on our own memories. We rely on technology to remember for us. That deeply concerns me. I worry that we are getting to a point where if all these things were to be suddenly taken away from us in an instant—at the rate we’re going now, humanity will be at a huge disadvantage.”
Ratatan lastly has an actual launch date
The Patapon remaster got here out earlier this summer time and was great, however what I’ve actually been ready for is the religious successor from the unique designer himself. Crowdfunded undertaking Ratatan will ship that in relation to Early Entry on PC on September 19. There are such a lot of methods the sport might fail to stay as much as the hype, however I’m trying ahead to seeing what creator Hiroyuki Kotani has been cooking up both means.
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