Ghost Of Yotei Studio Nonetheless ‘Hungover’ From Celebrating GTA 6 Delay

How a lot champagne do you cost to the corporate bank card when GTA 6 mercifully shifts out of your launch window? Which superstar will star in Cyberpunk 2? And what sport are Helldivers 2‘s devs working on next? Welcome to another edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture.

People are buzzing about Jump Space, the sci-fi co-op adventure about blowing up spaceships with friends. It comes to Early Access next week and already has an impressive post-launch roadmap of updates lined up. How many more cool ship games will we get before Starfield‘s next expansion arrives?

It was a good day in the Sucker Punch offices when GTA 6 delayed

Ghost of Yotei is one of the biggest game releases of the fall, at least now that GTA 6 has been delayed to May 2026. Creative director Nate Fox was asked about that moment in a new rapid-fire interview with MinnMax (via VGC). “When GTA 6 was delayed, did the entire studio pop some champagne?” host Ben Hanson asked. “We’re all nonetheless hungover. Multi-month hangover,” Fox responded. “That was a great day.”

Yotei‘s October 2 release date was announced before Rockstar revealed its delay, locking in its fate one way or the other. Fortune favors the bold. Now lots of games that were waiting to come out until 2026 to escape the GTA 6 gravity well are faced with a new conundrum: get out ahead of it or come out later in the year and risk stumbling into a second GTA 6 delay?

Helldivers studio’s subsequent sport could have a Future-style social hub

However what’s it, precisely? Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani gave the impression to be talking off the cuff when he responded to a fan within the sport’s Discord who requested a spot the place Helldivers 2 gamers can hand around in between drops. “It’s on the feature list for the next one,” Jorjani teased. What subsequent one? Helldivers 3? Nope.

“This was about our next game. Not HD3,” he added on Reddit. Some followers are questioning if it’s a nod to the studio’s isometric fantasy multiplayer collection Magicka. The studio has already confirmed that its subsequent venture, no matter it finally ends up being, won’t be published by Sony.

Followers suppose GTA 6 parody web site names have leaked

The open-world blockbuster remains to be over six months away, however within the meantime gamers could have some contemporary teases to parse. What appear to be in-game web site names appear to have been registered as actual web domains by Take-Two again in Might. They embody what-up.app, rydeme.app, and wipeoutcornskin.com. I don’t know if we’re prepared for GTA 6 within the post-internet, algorithmic slop part of lampooning popular culture.

Will Johnny Silverhand return in Cyberpunk 2?

As a result of Keanu Reeves could be completely satisfied to do it if CD Projekt Pink desires him again. “Absolutely,” he told IGN when requested about reprising the position. “I’d love to play Johnny Silverhand again.” Successfully a digital ghost within the first sport, there’s no cause Silverhand would want to come back again in a sequel, but in addition nothing precluding it both. Cyberpunk 2 is ready to return to Evening Metropolis however also take players to a new location likened to “Chicago gone wrong.”

Satoru Iwata laughed when he heard about making an attempt to promote Animal Crossing in America

Veteran Nintendo localizer Leslie Swan told Time Extension that’s how the previous president of the corporate reacted when she instructed him they had been translating the comfortable sim. “He just laughed and said, ‘I don’t know how you’re going to do this.’ And it’s true, just everything in that game was so specific to Japan,” she mentioned.

Lengthy-time producer Takashi Tezuka was not assured both. “[Tezuka] basically said to me, ‘We’d like to have you localize it’ and I said, ‘Sure.’ But then he said, ‘No, Leslie, I’m not sure you understand, it’s going to be difficult.’” Swan recalled. “And I kept having to assure him that we would make it happen.” A long time later, the franchise is now top-of-the-line promoting on the earth.