Good morning. Welcome to a new week. Will it be better than last week? I really hope so! Anyway, today’s Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku’s daily round-up of interesting news and stuff you might care about, features a new and less shiny PS5, Silent Hill f sales data, Borderlands 4 DLC news, a content creator retiring, and a cool Daft Punk video.
New PS5 Model Ditches All That Shiny Black Plastic
A new model of the PlayStation 5 has leaked online ahead of an official announcement from Sony, and while it’s not a massive update to the current iteration of the console, it does include one tweak that seems to be making a lot of people happy: The new PS5 doesn’t include shiny black plastic. As reported by Zuby_Tech, new photos and information about the refreshed PS5 show that it features matte black plastic, saving you from having to cover your PS5 in nasty fingerprints every time you dare to move or touch it.
Other changes found in this new, updated PS5 console include different-colored USB ports, a smaller SSD, and a new heatsink. The console is also overall a bit lighter now, likely thanks to more stamped metal parts inside. No word on when to expect this new console to hit shelves, but I’d bet it won’t be long, as we are getting close to the holiday season.
Silent Hill f Outselling Silent Hill 2 remake
『SILENT HILL f』
全世界累計出荷本数※が100万本を突破しました。
プレイいただいた皆さまありがとうございます。
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※2025年9月26日時点 当社調べ
※パッケージ版出荷数とダウンロード版販売数の合計#SILENTHILL #サイレントヒル pic.twitter.com/P6jl93zhGW
— SILENT HILL (@silenthill_jp) September 29, 2025
People really like Silent Hill f, Konami’s first original mainline entry in the long-running horror series in over a decade. So I’m not shocked to see it selling so well. According to Konami, Silent Hill f sold a million copies in around 24 hours. In a press release announcing the news, the publisher also confirmed that Silent Hill f was selling faster than last year’s Silent Hill 2 remake. This is good news for Silent Hill fans who have spent the past decade putting up with a lot of bad news, garbage, and disappointment. Hopefully, this new era of Silent Hill isn’t short-lived.
GOG Adds More Classic Games To Its Preservation Program
Classic PC gaming store Good Old Games, aka GOG, announced recently that over half a dozen more titles were being added to its ongoing preservation program. Launched in 2024, the GOG Preservation Program is the store’s long-term plan to keep certain classic PC games playable, updated, and accessible. It’s a great idea and one which, if GOG sticks to it, could be extremely helpful for games that no longer have official publisher or developer support.
Here’s the latest list of games added to the program, many of which are currently on sale to celebrate the news:
– Gothic 1
– Gothic 2
– Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness
– Mortal Kombat Trilogy
– Freespace 2
– XIII Century Gold Edition
– Stranglehold
Gearbox Reveals Borderlands 4‘s First DLC Character
Over the weekend during Tokyo Game Show, Gearbox and 2K Games revealed the first playable DLC character coming to Borderlands 4: C4SH, a gambling robot cowboy built around luck and chance. Fan account Borderlands 4 Bulletin shared more information about the new Vault Hunter on social media directly from the Gearbox TGS panel. The studio says that C4SH will have 3 action skills just like the other playable characters and that the character’s skills are “distinctly unpredictable, as they all involve an element of chance.”
C4SH will be available in Q1 2026 for all players on all platforms who own the Super Deluxe Edition of Borderlands 4, buy the Vault Hunter Pack DLC, or who purchase the game’s first Story Pack when it’s available.
Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry Retiring (Again)
As reported by PC Gamer, Shirley Curry, better known online as the famous Skyrim Grandma, is retiring from content creation. The nearly 90-year-old gamer, who will appear in Elder Scrolls 6 when that finally launches, confirmed the news in a new VLOG uploaded to her YouTube channel. She explained that she’s just “bored” with playing Skyrim again and isn’t having a great experience on YouTube anymore, as many of the comments she got were just, according to her, younger kids shouting about how much they loved their video game grandma. She says she wanted more feedback and interesting conversations.
“That’s why I’m just going to stop uploading anything to do with Skyrim,” said Curry. “I’m tired, I’m not having fun anymore, probably because of all the little kids on there. I think that’s about all I have to say.”
Curry will keep making VLOGS and blogging, but her days with Skyrim are over. Probably. It was just a year ago that Curry actually announced similar plans to retire from Elder Scrolls content, but then came back and even made a video of herself playing the Oblivion Remaster. But based on how she sounds in this new VLOG, I get the feeling she really is done with Skyrim.
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