It’s finally cool to be an actor in video games. Xbox’s new CEO is treading carefully and carrying a big stick when it comes to exclusivity. The Switch may have just been dealt a deathblow in its race to outsell the PlayStation 2 for the title of most popular game console ever. It’s Kotaku ‘s Checkpoint roundup for May 8, 2026, where I am still catching my breath from the avalanche of news that broke overnight in Japan and still thinking about the new Star Fox . We’re just normal men. We’re just innocent men . Clair Obscur shows how views around video game acting have changed “My first engagement with video games was with a company called Ninja Theory, and we made a game called Heavenly Sword for PlayStation 3,” Andy Serkis, who played one of the game’s antagonists, King Bohan , said in a new interview with Variety .…