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Skip to content Reviewed September 10, 2025 on PC PC, Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S September 11, 2025 Wales Interactive Wales Interactive, Dark Rift Horror I’ve always found a strange fascination with full-motion video (FMV) games that I’ve never been able to put my finger on. Maybe it’s how FMV fundamentally changes how we interact with stories and narratives. Or the uniqueness of living actors being superimposed on pre-rendered backgrounds.

Skip to content Posted on September 9, 2025 Often considered the underdog when next to Pokémon, Digimon is a franchise that is always in need of more love from the wider public, but is greatly appreciated by loyal fans. We’ve had a lot of quality video games for the series over the years: Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth was a blast of an RPG back on the PS4 and Vita, becoming a cult hit. Meanwhile, the more recent Survive took a different approach and melded tactics combat with a visual novel story.

Skip to content Posted on September 8, 2025 I’ve been doing this thing of highlighting queer games each month for quite a while now—almost two years. Sometimes you just have to call games as you see them. The newly released taking my Dark Knight Girlfriend to the corner store is Checkpoint’s Queer Game of the Month for September 2025. Why, may you ask? It’s exactly what it says on the tin, it knows what it’s about, and it’s queer and joyous as all hell.

Skip to content Posted on September 8, 2025 I’m a big fan of fighting games. While my jam falls more towards arcade fighting games like Tekken 8 and anime fighters like Under Night In-Birth, I have always felt a strange allure to tag-fighters. But sadly, none of them has managed to capture me. And now, I’m in for the ride of my life as I try to figure out which poor game is getting sent to the bench.

Skip to content Posted on September 8, 2025 As we enter into the (technically) third year of Disney Lorcana, Fabled is here to serve as a bit of a reset. A time to pause and reflect on the popular card game that has been taking the world by storm. Fabled, the newest expansion, doesn’t bring any sweeping mechanical changes or new wild keywords into the mix.

Skip to content Posted on September 8, 2025 Seven months after the release of Civilization VII, staff are getting laid off at Firaxis Games. While publisher 2K Games has not confirmed how many staff have been affected, sources close to the situation told Game Developer that dozens have been impacted.

Skip to content Reviewed September 8, 2025 on Nintendo Switch 2 PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 September 5, 2025 Marvelous Marvelous First Studio Six years ago, Marvelous Entertainment debuted a new mech series called Daemon X Machina for the Switch that promised players a broad adventure full of robot customisation, a dazzling world and a memorable story. It delivered on about half of those promises. Fast forward to now, and we’ve got a sequel in Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion.

Skip to content Posted on September 7, 2025 Last week, we learned that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 would be revamping (no pun intended) the content included in its preorder editions following some negative feedback. Its official social media has now announced that it will be issuing refunds to anyone who preordered the game’s premium edition on the PS Store, saying that they “want to do this right”.

Each week there are plenty of new games coming out. Although with so much going on it can be hard to keep track of them all. Thankfully, Checkpoint is here to sift through them all and bring you our highlights of the week. So let’s jump in and have a look at what’s coming out in gaming this week.

After seven long years of waiting, Hollow Knight: Silksong has finally arrived, and it’s already rewriting records. The sequel from Adelaide’s Team Cherry was so hotly anticipated that it crashed digital stores worldwide. Nintendo’s eShop went offline, Steam threw up error messages, and PlayStation and Xbox players struggled to even download the game. Silksong release just crashed the steam store.. 100,000 players within 30 minutes of it's release on Steam.