Modders celebrate 10 years of improving Fallout 4 with their own anniversary collection, Liam Hemsworth’s Geralt earns a big defender, and the very good Analogue 3D (I’ve tested it but still need to publish my full review) is finally getting a Bluetooth N64 controller that actually looks cool. Welcome to the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, our daily roundup of gaming news and culture. It’s Black Friday season which means I’m about to stock up on extra controllers to replace the ones my kids keep breaking. It’s not great that modern game pads cost more than ever and wear out twice as fast.
Modders have put together their own Fallout 4 Anniversary Collection
The package includes a curated round-up of all of the community’s favorite free fan-made add-ons for Bethesda’s decade-old RPG. But the Fallout 4: Anniversary Collection is more than that. “It’s a thank-you to the creators who’ve kept Fallout 4 evolving long after launch, and a gift to players returning to the Wasteland with fresh eyes,” wrote Nexus user ModularCocoon. “Whether this is your first playthrough in years or your fifteenth settlement build this month, this is the Commonwealth at its most refined: a snapshot of what ten years of modding can achieve.”
That’s in contrast to the official update from Bethesda which recently messed a bunch of things up and drove the game down to its lowest user rating ever on Steam with “overwhelming negative” reviews. “Game has been out for a decade and received two recent updates,” one player wrote. “I still get a black screen on startup and have to track down an ini file to make it work.” Bethesda is trying to fix it.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage devs promise to fix the new motion blur issue
The 2023 release recently received its new, free Valley of Memory DLC expanding on Basim’s adventure with new content and new parkour options. But it also got rid of the ability to toggle motion blur off, in addition to tuning up the effect way beyond what fans were used to. It’s been making players dizzy and making the game look bad. Ubisoft promised it’s prioritizing a fix to add the settings toggle back in ASAP.
One Geralt compliments another
Doug Cockle, who voices Geralt in the Witcher video games, says Liam Hemsworth, who now plays him in Netflix’s The Witcher series, is doing a fine job, despite season 4’s abominable reception and ratings.
“I loved Henry. He was a fantastic Witcher, Geralt, specifically, so I was sad to see him go, but I have watched the newest season, and I think Liam holds up pretty well,” Cockle told GamesRadar. “He’s different. He’s made it his own character, and that’s what he should have done as an actor, and I think he’s done a fantastic job. So I’m looking forward to seeing Season Five eventually, and seeing where it goes.”
This is the N64-style gamepad the Analogue 3D should have shipped with
8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller for Analogue 3D (Grey) up for preorder on 8BitDo ($44.99) https://t.co/Jd9OH3869E pic.twitter.com/P8Si5rhRsQ
— Wario64 (@Wario64) November 20, 2025
8bitdo just revealed a gray variant of its Bluetooth controller for its new retro console that plays Nintendo 64 games. It’s $45 and looks great compared to the all-black base model, but it’s not shipping until the end of January 2026. Hopefully, it has a better thumbstick than the current Analogue 3D controllers as well.
Clair Obscur could get an MTG Secret Lair drop
Magic: The Gathering designer Gavin Verhey said he’s into the idea of a collaboration with the surprise turn-based RPG hit of 2025. “My general theory recently is that gaming brands are just really good collaborations for Magic,” he told Dexerto. “When you bring someone new in with a gaming collaboration, they’re already gamers. You don’t have to explain what hit points are, what an objective is, or what mana is. They just get it.”
He added, “I mean, it’s the talk of the town this year right? Expedition 33 would be really fun to get to do…who knows if it’ll happen or if they’re even up for that kind of thing, right?”
Silent Hill 2 sneaks onto Xbox Series X/S
The remake port was quietly shadow-dropped this week with a big 50 percent off discount. Any Xbox fans who haven’t already played it on another platform can grab it for just $35, which is almost as good as having it on Game Pass (or even better for those who prefer to own). Konami recently teased that it’s planning more Silent Hill games in addition to the recently released Silent Hill f and an in-development remake of Silent Hill 1.
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