Borderlands 4 is already on sale. Helldivers 2 is on a break, sorta. The pinnacle of Murderer’s Creed is leaving after roughly 20 years at Ubisoft. Welcome to the newest version of Morning Afternoon Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. This week is already off to a wild start. We’re formally in peak interval for the autumn 2025 launch calendar. Battlefield 6 was final week. Pokémon Legends: Z-A is that this week. And a slew of huge launches will end issues off main as much as Halloween. However within the meantime let’s keep in mind how good Final Fantasy Tactics Advance looked. Now that’s some attractive 16-bit pixel artwork. If solely the remainder of the sport have been pretty much as good!
Borderlands 4 is 20 % off a month after launch
That’s particularly on PC the place gross sales could also be gentle on account of a whole hullaballoo over efficiency points final month. Gearbox Leisure head Randy Pitchford beforehand promised followers that the latest loot shooter within the franchise would go a very long time with none large reductions. Does this depend? “Sales like this and Borderlands 3 showing up on console subscription programs took over 5 years from the game’s launch to happen,” he wrote earlier this yr in a thread pointing to a quick 95-percent low cost for the sequence.
“Take advantage when it’s here! And to set expectations, it will be even longer before this kind of thing happens in the next cycle with Borderlands 4.” Let’s see if Borderlands 4 will get all the way down to $50 on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S by Black Friday.
A have a look at Uncommon’s cancelled Everwild leaks on-line
#Vazou Capturas de Tela do Cancelado Everwild da Uncommon 📸
As imagens mostravam (provavelmente) uma versão relativamente recente, de um pouco antes do jogo ser cancelado pela Microsoft
A interface nos lembra um pouco dos jogos da franquia Zelda modernos , embora tenhamos sido… pic.twitter.com/7lMlrAUvXw
— Pastor Xbox (@PastorXbox) October 13, 2025
The action-adventure fantasy recreation began as a prototype on the Sea of Thieves studio over a decade in the past. A number of delays and improvement reboots later, Microsoft lastly pulled the plug on the Xbox unique earlier this yr. Everwild was first proven at an Xbox showcase again in 2019, and now recent screenshots of a seemingly latest construct (by way of MP1st) have leaked on social media. Longtime Uncommon developer Gregg Mayles also confirmed he’s leaving the studio following the cancellation.
The Japanese authorities asks OpenAI to cease stealing its IP
Minoru Kiuchi, Minister of State for Financial Safety, shared the information at a press convention final week. “Anime and manga are irreplaceable treasures that we can be proud of around the world,” he mentioned (by way of ITMedia). We’ve requested OpenAI to not have interaction in any actions that might represent copyright infringement.” The announcement comes after the discharge of Sora 2 led to a flood of new AI-generated slop based mostly on online game and anime characters, together with these from Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Pokémon.
Sucker Punch will keep a one-game studio
Don’t anticipate the Ghost of Yotei group to begin chasing a number of tasks directly like Insomniac Video games or different PlayStation studios. “If we were good at juggling four projects, yeah, we’d have a remaster, and let’s go do one of those, and one of those, and do some fan request that would be really popular…but we only get to do one thing,” Sucker Punch head Brian Fleming told VGC. “So it kind of has to be your best idea, right? And that’s really clarifying. It’s not like there aren’t 15 good ideas. But you only get to do one. And by the way, you only get to do one about every five years. So that choice is really important. I mean, that is choosing your college and your major every five years.”
Murderer’s Creed franchise boss leaves Ubisoft after shake-up
Marc-Alexis Côté is departing the French writer following the just lately introduced Tencent-backed Vantage Studios subsidiary which is able to oversee Murderer’s Creed and the corporate’s different main franchises, IGN experiences. “Following the organizational restructuring announced in March 2025, Marc-Alexis Côté has chosen to pursue a new path elsewhere outside of Ubisoft,” a Ubisoft spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “While we are saddened to see him go, we’re confident that our talented teams will carry forward the strong foundation he helped build.”
Demon’s Souls Remake studio is engaged on a brand new motion recreation
Bluepoint Video games has a brand new venture within the queue in accordance with a latest job itemizing (by way of Tech4Gamers). The PlayStation studio was beforehand engaged on a reportedly canceled stay service God of Conflict spin-off. A brand new job itemizing, since faraway from the web site, says the group is hiring a senior fight designer for a third-person melee motion recreation. That certain narrows it down!
The Helldivers 2 group is taking a break from new content material to repair efficiency
The sci-fi extraction shooter obtained a bunch of huge updates this yr, however the improvement group says it’s now pivoting to fixing the general state of the sport’s efficiency. “We’re taking this very seriously and we are focusing way more now on addressing these issues to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again,” director Mikael Eriksson mentioned in a latest interview (by way of Eurogamer). “We have made the decision to push some of our content and feature updates a little bit into the future while we’re addressing these things to make sure that we can get to a much more stable state that we can believe in.”
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