Good morning! Completely happy Halloween! Sure, children throughout the nation get to take pleasure in one among life’s finest treats: A Friday Halloween. Keep up late, children, and eat a lot sweet. However earlier than you wreck your tooth and stomachs, let’s get by way of immediately’s Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. Today, we have evidence of a Silent Hill 2 remake Xbox port, more layoff news, the reveal of pets in Fortnite, and some new ports of Turok 2 arriving courtesy of Nightdive Studios.
Fortnite adds animal sidekicks
On Thursday, Epic announced that the long-rumored pets feature is finally arriving in Fortnite on November 1 alongside The Simpsons mini-season. These tiny buddies are officially known as “Sidekicks” and will follow you around in battle royale and other Fortnite modes. However, enemy players won’t see them in aggressive modes, so your cute pet doesn’t give away your place and get you killed. Sidekicks will even be immune to wreck and can function their very own customization choices that may be unlocked by finishing quests. I can already hear Epic’s checking account filling with much more cash.
The Silent Hill 2 remake is probably going coming to Xbox within the close to future
Folks have spotted an ESRB ranking for a yet-to-be-announced Xbox port of final yr’s wonderful Silent Hill 2 remake. This doesn’t formally verify such a port will occur, however it appears very, very doubtless that Konami is gearing as much as deliver the remake to Xbox Sequence X/S in not too distant future. For the time being, Silent Hill 2 is just out there on PS5 and PC.
MGS3 remake’s multiplayer mode is now out there
When Konami’s fancy remake of Metal Gear Stable 3 launched again in August, the sport’s promised multiplayer mode was lacking because it wanted extra time within the oven. Now, Fox Hunt is lastly out as a part of a free replace. At launch, Fox Hunt options two stealth-focused multiplayer modes and helps 12 gamers. Whereas it ain’t a brand new model of Metallic Gear On-line, I’m actually curious to test it out. I imply, as soon as I discover time to play it and the 20 different video games I nonetheless must play this yr.
Extra layoffs hit Coronary heart Machine
The studio behind Hyper Mild Drifter and Photo voltaic Ash is reportedly shedding workers for the second time this month. As reported by GameDeveloper.com, at the least 4 totally different employees members have just lately posted on social media that they had been laid off. One now out-of-work dev shared a video suggesting that by the point the studio’s subsequent sport, Possessor(s), launches on November 11, most, if not all, of the individuals who labored on it is likely to be gone from the indie studio. That is the second spherical of layoffs to hit the corporate this month and the third spherical in early 2025.
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