Electronic Arts just wrapped its last year as a publicly traded company with a new sales record. Control 2 is on track and not over-budget. The latest milestone on Microsoft’s “return to Xbox” road map is a new boot logo. It’s your Kotaku Checkpoint roundup for May 6, 2026, where we are getting to know a new member of the Xbox team who has a great Guitar Hero analogy for AI . GameStop’s cosmic-brain CEO Ryan Cohen recently went on the OpenAI-owned TBPN network to do damage control on his eBay takeover bid after going on CNBC and sounding like he’d just suffered a concussion . The stock has still not recovered from its post-cable-news slump. GameStop employees are not impressed . EA had a great year and it’s all thanks to Battlefield 6 The best-selling game of 2025 propelled the soon-to-be-Saudi-Arabia-owned publisher to a new annual sales record of $8.026 billion.…