The star of the brand new Tomb Raider video games doesn’t need a repeat of Excellent Darkish. Massive DLC is on the way in which for some hit video games. And why is there no Xbox Wrapped for 2025? Welcome to the most recent version of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. If you missed this year’s Xbox Bowl, effectively, Grasp Chief highway a Warthog onto the sector, did the coin toss, and introduced the trophy to winner Arkansas State on the finish which included an Xbox Ally X. He didn’t, sadly, reveal a brand new sport within the franchise.
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The brand new voice of Lara Croft opens up about shedding Excellent Darkish
Dragon Age and Cyberpunk 2077 voice actor Alix Wilton Regan informed The Gamer she recorded “entire chapters” for Excellent Darkish earlier than being “blindsided” by its cancelation. She’s now taking part in Lara in Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Legacy of Atlantis, however nonetheless harbors considerations at the back of her thoughts about these initiatives immediately going through hassle as effectively.
“The saving grace for me when Perfect Dark fell apart was that I’d already been shooting Lara for about a year as well,” she stated. “I just felt so relieved that I still had Lara, but I also felt really frightened about losing Lara. I’m still frightened of losing Lara.”
The rats are nonetheless taking part in Doom and getting higher at it
Tom’s Hardware reports there’s a brand new experiment for instructing rats easy methods to play the basic 3D shooter. This time there are little air blasts to inform them after they’re hitting partitions and a button they’ll press to truly shoot stuff as they transfer round. Their whole subject of view is taken up by the sport as effectively. It truly appears like an extremely hellish technique to play the sport.
Dave the Diver‘s In The Jungle DLC will have some Animal Crossing twists
A new developer vlog reveals that the DLC will run about 10 hours and feature the new jungle village of Utara where Dave can hang out and chat with residents in real time, gather resources, and complete quests. The new Bancho Grill restaurant requires fish to be cooked and shows off more movement options than the original game’s Bancho Sushi.
Don’t count on to learn the way many hours Phil Spencer spent gaming this 12 months
Windows Central reports that Microsoft gained’t be releasing its personal Xbox Wrapped-style roundup of gamers’ time spent on the platform over the previous 12 months. That is apparently as a result of the corporate is investing all of its advertising assets into twenty fifth anniversary celebrations for subsequent 12 months. I used to be actually trying ahead to seeing if Spencer may break a brand new file for time spent by a CEO playing games in 2025.
Journey Time is coming to PowerWash Simulator 2
However not till the spring. The primary of three paid DLCs will add 5 places, together with the Tree Home and Ice King’s citadel.
Sony needs to patent AI for censoring video games
The corporate just lately filed paper work for AI that performs “bespoke content edits” like censoring language or gore, reports Retro Handhelds. The know-how suggests a potential future the place settings may change not solely a sport’s problem however its age score, relying on the extent of the content material, although it additionally clearly raises considerations about inventive intent being censored alongside every little thing else.
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