GPU prices are out of control and all Nvidia can do is shrug its shoulders and count its billions. IGN continues downsizing after its big acquisition of sites in 2024. And casting has begun for Wolfenstein 3. It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. Say it with me now: “Not everything is Concord.”
Nvidia soars as GPUs slump
“As much as we would love to have more supply, we do believe for a couple of quarters it is going to be very tight,” CEO Jensen Huang said during this week’s earnings call. “If things improve by the end of the year, there is an opportunity to think about what that is from a year-over-year growth, but it is still too early for us to know at this time. We will get back to you as soon as we can.”
While the company continues raking in the cash thanks to the AI boom, sales of gaming GPUs actually fell 13 percent last quarter as people look at the price of upgrading their PC and go “hell no.” “We expect supply constraints to be a headwind to gaming in the first quarter of fiscal 2027 and beyond,” Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said. Yikes.
Surely Nvidia is doing everything it can to increase available supply, right? Right? “If things improve by the end of the year, there is an opportunity to think about what this is from a year-over-year growth, but it’s still too early for us to know at this time,” Kress later said.
Fresh games media cuts at IGN-owned Eurogamer
As first reported by VGC, Eurogamer is losing some top editors as well as its entire video team. Kotaku can corroborate that the popular Outside Xbox YouTube channel, which includes the Oxventure show for live tabletop playthroughs, is part of the cuts.
The group had just finished multiple sold-out shows as part of its 2026 tour across the UK. It’s unclear if they’ll have the opportunity to buy themselves out and go independent as Digital Foundry did last year or if the entire enterprise will just entirely shut down.
Sources told Kotaku that Eurogamer‘s editorial director is part of the downsizing, which comes after other waves of cuts and departures since IGN acquired the site as part of the Gamer Network in 2024.
Casting is underway for Wolfenstein 3
Mp1st reports on details of one of the project’s new characters and its recording schedule, with sessions planned for 2026 and 2027. Kotaku corroborated that the game was in development last month.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director defends using older version of Unreal Engine for the next sequel
“These represent the current trend in graphics pipelines, and of course, such pipelines are important to us as well,” he told Automaton. “However, if we had tied our development schedule and milestones too closely to Unreal Engine 5’s roadmap, we would have risked our own progress being stalled if the engine encountered any kind of delay.”
Sony might be backing off its PC push for single-player games
There was speculation on two podcasts this week that games like Wolverine are no longer a priority for porting to PC. That’s in stark contrast to Microsoft’s everything everywhere strategy. “I have an inkling that they’re pulling away from PC,” Digital Foundry‘s John Linneman said. “Watch the space. But I can’t help, based on some of the decisions and the way things have been going lately, I get the feeling that under the current leadership, that PC has become less important.” Bloomberg‘s Jason Schreier echoed a similar sentiment on Triple Click.
Smiling Friends calls it quits
The breakout Adult Swim animated comedy hit will end with season 3. “To be honest, after Season 3, Zach and I both had the same feeling where we felt pretty burnt out after putting years and years into this, but also pretty accomplished,” co-creator Michael Cusack explained in a new message. “We came to this feeling where we were like, ‘This can just be it.’”
The news comes as a shocker since season 4 and 5 already appeared to be greenlit. Smiling Friends will have two more episodes to release as part of season 3 before saying goodbye.
