Why is Metallic Gear creator Hideo Kojima pulling out of his large speech at GDC? What are the automatons planning for Tremendous Earth? And can Ubisoft ever work out the best way to make Murderer’s Creed right into a reside service? It’s one other version of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s day by day roundup of gaming information, rumors, and tradition.
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Kojima mysteriously bows out of his GDC 2026 Keynote speech
Expensive Porters and GDC Attendees
We remorse to tell you that Hideo Kojima will not have the ability to attend this yr’s GDC Pageant of Gaming.We perceive that this shall be disappointing for followers and attendees who have been trying ahead to listening to him converse, and we wish to supply…
— KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) (@KojiPro2015_EN) February 6, 2026
The Loss of life Stranding 2 director was set to current on the Recreation Developer’s Convention, or because it’s now being known as, the “GDC Pageant of Gaming,” to speak about his fateful determination a decade in the past to go impartial after a messy breakup with Konami. Now his firm, Kojima Productions, is saying he received’t have the ability to attend, however not giving the explanation why.
“We remorse to tell you that Hideo Kojima will not have the ability to attend this yr’s GDC Pageant of Gaming,” it introduced on February 6. “We perceive that this shall be disappointing for followers and attendees who have been trying ahead to listening to him converse, and we wish to supply our deepest apologies. Whereas Hideo Kojima is unable to attend in particular person, KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS continues to be excited to be a part of this yr’s competition, with members of the crew presenting throughout the week. We want everybody on the GDC Pageant of Gaming a incredible occasion. We hope to reconnect with you all quickly.”
Is the sudden final minute pull-out associated to a dispute with the venue, issues concerning the political local weather within the U.S. and touring right here as a foreigner, or a shock, last-minute scheduling battle? Kojima lately tweeted that he’s again within the modifying bay, suggesting an announcement for one thing new within the close to future. An replace on OD? One thing about Physint? Hopefully, it’s not an indication of something extra critical like potential well being issues.
Ubisoft reportedly canceled an unannounced multiplayer Murderer’s Creed recreation
That’s in keeping with French website Origami which claims the challenge was codenamed League. It was reportedly a cooperative recreation set on the planet of Murderer’s Creed Shadows that was in improvement at Annecy underneath a crew of practically 85 folks. The studio was additionally reportedly engaged on an Murderer’s Creed MMO at one level known as Echoes that additionally didn’t come collectively.
MachineGames boss says recreation costs can’t preserve going up
Whereas corporations push $80 video games and followers fear about Grand Theft Auto 6 costing $100, Wolfenstein studio director Jerk Gustafsson thinks corporations must focus extra on smarter recreation improvement. “What are you able to do by way of being extra environment friendly?” he informed GamesIndustry.biz. “What can we do to proceed to advertise our merchandise? What can we do with our again catalogue to guarantee that our older video games can deliver new life into these new platforms?” He additionally all however confirmed a 3rd recreation is going on, as Kotaku beforehand reported.
Gamers are in a propaganda warfare with Helldivers 2‘s robots
The sport has been parodying the brutality of Tremendous Earth’s troopers from the viewpoint of enemies just like the Automatons to nice impact. All of it looks as if it’s main as much as one thing probably large, together with the return of Cyborgs and one other invasion of Tremendous Earth. Arrowhead Recreation Studios CEO Shams Jorjani is having enjoyable and spamming the Discord channel with messages in binary that learn “you’re going to shit your pants.”
