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1 week ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Payday 3 developer Starbreeze Studios has entered into an agreement to wrest the publishing rights for the struggling online heist game from publisher Plaion. The deal is set to provide the studio with the opportunity to “accelerate content development” for the game and “pursue broader strategic opportunities” for future Payday projects. News of the publishing rights acquisition was announced on Starbreeze’s website.
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1 month ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Skip to content Posted on April 1, 2025 Life is Strange: Double Exposure, the recently-released latest entry in the Life is Strange narrative adventure game series, has reportedly undersold Square Enix’s expectations. While exact sales figures are unknown, the game has apparently represented a “large loss” for the Japanese publisher, which was offset by other successful RPG releases last year.
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1 month ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Ubisoft has announced the creation of a new subsidiary which will exclusively manage the development of three of the publisher’s most famous franchises: Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six. This new entity has received a substantial $1.3 billion USD investment from Chinese tech giant Tencent.
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1 month ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Among the announcements from the most recent Nintendo Direct was Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Developed by Tribute Games Inc. and published by Dotemu, the developer and publisher behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a similar 90’s style 2D beat ’em up where 1-4 players can play as a selection of famous Marvel characters as they combat an otherworldly threat led by the supervillain Annihilus.
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1 month ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Skip to content Posted on March 26, 2025 The troubled development of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has hit another snag and delay in its release date. The game, following a developer switch to Still Wakes the Deep developer The Chinese Room was supposed to release last year, and then the first half of 2025 as per a recent development update.
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1 month ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
People Can Fly, the Polish developers of Outriders and Bulletstorm, has announced its newest game during the Future Game Show. It is called Lost Rift, and will be a “high-stakes First-Person Survival Shooter Adventure blending base-building, cooperative PvE, and intense PvPvE gameplay” according to the developers. The announcement trailer for Lost Rift shows the player waking up on a mysterious island called Pioneer’s Landing.
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1 month ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Skip to content Posted on March 20, 2025 LEGO, the toy construction brick company which needs no introduction, has unveiled an upcoming collaboration with Pokémon. This marks the first collaboration between these brands, however the exact details of what we can expect are vague as of yet. Officially unveiled in a social media post, this upcoming collaboration advises that fans should “get ready to electrify your imagination in 2026“.
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2 months ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Skip to content Posted on March 13, 2025 Niantic, developer of the famously popular Pokémon-branded AR spin-off for mobile devices, Pokémon GO, is being sold. Scopely, a mobile game developer and publisher owned by the Saudi royal investment fund-backed Savvy Games Group, has acquired the games business of Niantic, including Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now for $3.5 billion, as originally reported by Bloomberg.
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2 months ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima has announced a formal release date for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, which was officially announced during The Game Awards back in 2022. Fans fortunately won’t have too much longer to wait, plus the game will be accompanied with a substantial (if pricey) Collector’s Edition including a trove of extra goodies. A concert tour, beginning at the Sydney Opera House, has also been announced to celebrate the series’ soundtrack.
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2 months ago | 
checkpointgaming.net | Tom Quirk
Epic Games is the subject of a new class action lawsuit filed by two parents in a San Francisco court on behalf of their children. The suit, first reported by Polygon, alleges “deceptive practices employed on a massive scale in one of the world’s most popular video games” (in this case, Fortnite), arguing that Fortnite’s Item Shop creates “the illusion of scarcity” to trigger FOMO in children and pressure them into making in-game purchases.
