Checkpoint

10 Jul 2018

Up to Date: Guild Wars, Ashi, Paladins 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!

Luke, Elliot, Cam, Rach and a bunch of others from the Checkpoint family 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 Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered, Ashi: Lake of Light, Paladins on Switch, Ice Caves of Europa and more. We also discuss what’s Coming Out over the next week, including Earthfall, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker for Switch and Octopath Traveler.

We also take you through the big news of the week, including We Happy Few receiving classification here in Australia, controversy surrounding two Guild Wars writers losing their jobs, cofnusion around the development of Dead Island 2 and more!

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

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