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Assassin’s Creed Origins: The Year Off That Saved the Creed
Some sequels add content. Origins subtracted something instead: it subtracted a year. The most important feature of the great Assassin’s Creed reboot is a gap in the calendar, and everything good about the modern series grew out of that empty space. By Ruan Martini, Daily Checkpoint I have a soft spot for Assassin’s Creed II…
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: The Billion Dollar Viking
Every franchise has a biggest game. Valhalla is the rare case where biggest is not an opinion, it is an accounting fact. By Ruan Martini, Daily Checkpoint Eivor, the raven, two axes and a beach full of bad decisions. Image: Ubisoft. Let me set the scene the way I remember it. November 2020. A brand…
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Resident Evil Veronica Is Real. The Forgotten One Finally Gets Its Remake.
For twenty six years, Code Veronica was the Resident Evil that fans defended at parties and Capcom pretended not to hear. At Summer Game Fest 2026, Capcom finally stopped pretending. The remake is real, it lands in 2027, and that single lonely year is almost everything Capcom is willing to say about it. By Ruan…
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Assassin’s Creed Revelations: The Goodbye Letter of Ezio Auditore
Some games end. This one said goodbye, twice, in two different centuries, and then an animated short film came along and finished what was left of my heart. Fifteen years later, this is still the standard every series finale gets judged against in my house. By Ruan Martini, Daily Checkpoint Ezio in front, Altair behind…
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Persona 4 Revival: The Coziest Murder Mystery in Games Walks Into February’s Knife Fight
Inaba is a foggy little town where the biggest event of the year is a supermarket opening. It is also the setting of my favorite murder mystery in video games. On February 18, 2027, Atlus rebuilds the whole thing from the ground up and drops it into the single most crowded month on the release…
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Ananta Is Free, It Is Anime GTA, and It Launches Eight Weeks After GTA 6
Every studio on Earth spent 2026 running away from one release date. One studio looked at the calendar, looked at the smoking crater where November 19 used to be, and calmly parked a free open world city eight weeks behind it. I respect the nerve. I also have questions. By Ruan Martini, Daily Checkpoint The…
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Tomb Raider (2013): The Shipwreck That Saved Lara Croft
In 2013, Crystal Dynamics shipwrecked a 21 year old Lara Croft on a cursed island and rebuilt an icon. Why the reboot worked, how it treated players kindly, and why it became the best selling Tomb Raider ever.
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Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Puts Lara Back in 1996, in the Middle of 2027’s Worst Traffic Jam
Lara Croft returns on February 12, 2027 in a full Unreal Engine 5 remake of her 1996 debut. What is confirmed, what it costs, why Atlantis, and why February 2027 is a knife fight.
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Pokémon FireRed: Kanto Again, But Perfect. The Coziest RPG Ever Made.
Pokémon FireRed (2004, Game Boy Advance) took the Kanto we grew up with and perfected it: pure turn-based comfort, zero punishment, a game you beat with your brain instead of your reflexes. It holds up in 2026, it just came back to Switch, and it is the perfect warm up for Winds and Waves.
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Grove Street Forever: Why San Andreas Is Still the Soul of GTA
GTA San Andreas turned 22 in October 2026. Grove Street, CJ, the gym that changed your body, three cities on a PlayStation 2, and why Leonida owes this game everything.