Checkpoint

3 Jul 2018

Up to Date: Wrecking Ball, The Crew 2, WWE Champions and more.

Video Games

It’s time for your weekly update from the Checkpoint team with all the latest info you need to survive another week in the video games industry!

Elliot, Cam, Rach and Kieren are on board to talk through our regular weekly segments, including Playing With Yourself, where we take you through the games we’ve been playing this week, including Sky Noon, Pode, Vampyr (again – it’s Cam this time!) and more.

We also take you through the big news of the week, including the new Overwatch hero – a hamster called Wrecking Ball, Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation adding a disturbing new NSFW feature, Sony and their cross-play debacle, Halo getting a TV series and more!

Also on this episode, Luke got the chance to sit down and interview WWE World Champion AJ Styles and WWE Smackdown Women’s Champion Carmella about their upcoming tour and also video games (of course). Plus, Luke gets behind the wheel for some serious open world driving in The Crew 2!

For all the latest updates as always, head to our official website at checkpointgaming.net.

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