An indie recreation will get raked over the metaphorical coals over a cut up second in its Steam trailer. Treatment Leisure will get a brand new boss. And the writer of Arc Raiders is likely to be concerned in a brand new StarCraft shooter. It’s a really late version of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. Who’s able to get into UncBall?
Void Struggle is again on Steam after a dispute over shoulder pads
The Warhammer-inspired FTL mash-up was faraway from Steam final month over a DMCA takedown request. Thought to probably be somebody trolling on the time, it turned out the 2025 technique recreation was very a lot on the receiving finish of Warhammer proprietor Video games Workshop’s precise ire.
“After over a week of no response, Games Workshop eventually replied to our email and confirmed the notice was theirs,” developer Tundra told IGN in a press release. “They said their concern was limited to a specific shot from one of the trailers on the store page, arguing that certain elements could create the mistaken impression that Void War is associated with Games Workshop, specifically what they described as ‘the oversized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim.’”
Tundra ended up pulling the trailer to make the entire thing go away and the sport is again up on Steam. “While we disagree with their assessment, the simplest way to get the game back up and avoid getting bogged down in DMCA process was to remove that trailer and move on,” it wrote. What an amazing system Valve has for hashing out frivolous complaints!
The proprietor of Arc Raiders reportedly will get concerned with StarCraft
Korean writer Nexxon signed a cooperation settlement with Blizzard to assist it develop a mission within the StarCraft universe in accordance to Dnews (through ResetEra). It was previously reported that Blizzard is engaged on bringing again StarCraft as an open-world first-person shooter. Possibly we’ll get an announcement or at the very least a tease for no matter that is at BlizzCon 2026.
Mewgenics followers go full cringe mode
Edmund McMillen and co-developer Tyler Glaiel requested gamers of the brand new roguelike to go act like kittens in public to win stuff on-line. They did exactly that.
Treatment Leisure will get a brand new CEO
Jean-Charles Gaudechon will take the position on March 1 because the studio will get able to launch Management 2 and hopefully, finally, possibly inform individuals what’s up with the Max Payne remakes. He has artistic director Sam Lake’s endorsement. “He very much understands our wildly unique vision and the value of the Remedy Connected Universe,” the Treatment veteran wrote.
Changed will get a free demo
Gamers can now go hands-on with Unhappy Cat Studios’ long-awaited, retro-futurist, pixel-art motion recreation on Xbox and PC for themselves beginning February 11. The sport has been delayed a bunch however involves Sport Go on March 12.
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