Wind Waker Is Now Free To Play In Your Browser, Sorta

Why answer your boss’ email when you could sail the Hyrulian high seas instead? Will Arc Raiders deliver on its big March update or continue to shed players? And FFXIV is standing up to the censors. It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint and I have once again stayed up way too late playing (and dying in) Marathon. As casual players filter out it feels like maps are getting sweatier. Or maybe I just need to stop missing all of my headshots.

Wind Waker HD comes to the world wide web

Robin Payot has made the sailing portion of Wind Waker playable inside a web bowser and it looks surprisingly impressive. There’s a rupee-collecting mini-game, or you can just sail around and pretend you’re back on the GameCube surfing around Hyrule like it’s Waterworld. Better than doomscrolling or excel spreadsheet maxxing.

A new Arc Raiders tease is dividing fans

The forthcoming Flashpoint update promises the addition of a new Arc threat, but will that be a completely new enemy or just a remix of what’s already in the game? There are basically three buckets of predictions, on a sliding scale from “zzz” to “HYPE!” One guess is that we get something completely new and unexpected. Another is that the new threat will be along the lines of “flying Arc with the Queen’s laser attack.” The third is just existing Shredders making their way to the Blue Gate map.

Concern and speculation about the breadth of the upcoming content drop come as some players are getting antsy about Arc Raiders‘ slowing update pipeline. It’s still a multiplayer juggernaut on Steam but the concurrent numbers have been cut in half over the last month. No party lasts forever, but Embark now has to figure out what the future of the game will look like and how to bring players along for that ride.

A Japanese politician was once Samus Aran

Prior to being Parliamentary Vice-Minister of the Environment in Japan, Chisato Morishita once starred in a commercial for 2004’s Metroid: Zero Mission on the Game Boy Advance. An actor and model at the time, she can be seen in the 30-second spot climbing through vents in Samus’ blue zero suit. The marketing campaign extended to magazine ads and in-store cutouts.

Mewgenics should be coming to Switch 2 any day now

Developer Edmund McMillen recently posted footage showing the hit Steam strategy game running on Nintendo’s hardware. Hopefully the other console ports aren’t far behind.

Final Fantasy XIV changes its age-rating to accommodate R-rated group poses

“Currently, the ‘CERO C’ rating necessitates restrictions on the Group Pose function,” Square Enix announced (via TheGamer). “Therefore, to maintain the freedom of Group Pose and avoid these restrictions, we have decided to change the rating to ‘CERO D.’” G-posing, as it’s known, is one of the most popular things for players to do in the MMO and sometimes things can get a bit risqué.

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