These past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting for all of us! Prepping and planning for Christmas and also watching Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery after it dropped last week-that's what I've been doing. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I've been pretty obsessed with Josh O'Connor ever since Challengers, and after watching this film, my obsession has only peaked.
That is not a slight against Craig, whose '90s-boy-band bangs and Foghorn Leghorn accent make private detective Benoit Blanc a delightful iconoclast. It's praise for the way this latest Knives Out shakes off the franchise's winking timeliness and instead embraces a timeless foe: asshole Christians - those who use their pulpits to attack all whose faith doesn't quite align with their own;
Another dang Monday!? Didn't we do this already? Fine, whatever, let's go again. Welcome to Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku's daily round-up of news and other stuff you might care about. Today, we have news about the next Wolfenstein game, information on how Nintendo develops new ideas, a trailer for the next Knives Out film, and bad news for people planning to play Octopath Traveler 0 on Switch.