With the arrival of June 2026, we enter Pride Month, a period designed to celebrate LGBTQ+ representation and its history. Although still relatively uncommon, video games incorporating gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or trans characters no longer feel like outliers, which is a positive step forward. Plenty of titles let players…

A skilled LEGO fan manages to build a custom MOC (My Own Creation) Caterpie from the Pokemon series entirely from scratch, with no specific set used, and it looks better than most of the newly released and leaked LEGO Pokemon sets. The collaboration between LEGO and Pokemon certainly didn’t go…

The safety and well being of young children who play games like Roblox, Fortnite, and Minecraft has been an increasingly prominent topic among governments around the world. Now, the United Kingdom’s online safety minister Kanishka Narayan has suggested a potentially drastic solution that would prevent children from speaking with any…

GameStop shoppers, beware. It sounds like the retailer is on the cusp of inserting some sort of consumer-facing AI garbage into its shopping experience. This comes from the company’s annual report, published a little over a week ago. It’s traditional in annual reports for companies to spend roughly half of…

Flextsrike wireless fight stick Sony has announced that its FlexStrike wireless fight stick will be available to preorder starting June 2, ahead of its launch on August 6. Priced at $200, the FlexStrike is designed to be a portable option for PS5 and PC fighting game fans, whether they’re headed…

What’s next for Star Wars after Grogu interest plummets? Can a Streets of Rage movie be as funny as Sonic’s live-action debut? Will a Baldur’s Gate 2 remake give the classic CRPG a Baldur’s Gate 3–style makeover? It’s a belated edition of Kotaku Checkpoint for June 1, 2026, where we are…