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My biggest problem is having no idea who to romance Fields of Mistria Published: September 04, 2026, 4:00 pm | {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email I often wonder why I play so many farming simulators.

What should be a victory celebration for a breakout game has been hampered by a messy lawsuit and developers without pay. Credit: Bit Reactor Published: September 04, 2026, 2:29 pm | {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email Star Wars Zero Company has had a rocky few weeks to say the least.

Video games love to imagine dystopic futures– Cyberpunk, Fallout, Wolfenstein–and set the player as a hero fighting to make things better. Games that do imagine something more hopeful are frequently systems games, helping players think on a grand scale how humanity might get from here to there. Future? No Thanks! does something different.

Instead of doing literally anything actually good for Americans, United States president Donald Trump's administration is spending time and money making cruel, bad games. The White House website now has an "arcade" page in which people can play Tetris re-skinned to "protect the border from the coming horde" of immigrants, Snake where you play as Immigration and Customs Enforcement kidnapping undocumented people, and an egregious ripoff of Flappy Bird.

ArtStation is a website that, for a very long time now, has been a very popular platform for both viewing and hosting professional art. Chances are that if you are or know a video game artist, their portfolio is hosted on the site. To give you an idea how important it has grown to be, I ran an art feature at Kotaku for over a decade, and I'd say 90-95% of portfolio links I pointed to weren't to standalone websites, they were to ArtStation pages.

Letting a machine write your emails or a talk or spin up a PowerPoint presentation isn't cutting corners, those tasks are what you're being paid for Photo by Kaitlyn Baker / Unsplash Published: September 03, 2026, 5:52 pm Last updated: September 03, 2026, 5:54 pm | {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email You may...

Mark Fischbach—that's Markiplier to you!—really likes GoPro cameras. He said as much in a recent YouTube video in which he reviewed the new GoPro Mission 1 ILS, comparing it to the professional camera he used to film parts of Iron Lung. His enthusiasm for GoPro may have gotten Fischback to Mr. Magoo his way into securities fraud, though he insists that, despite appearances, it’s all a huge coincidence.

Following layoffs that have beloved studios hanging by a thread, a re-focus on franchises that reliably print money, and—pretty much guaranteed to partially counteract that—a third Xbox hardware price increase, Microsoft has found another place to penny pinch until it draws blood: Game Pass, an ever-reliable victim of enshittification. This time the company is placing limits on Cloud Gaming, which allows users to play games sans downloads.

Who hasn't at least once looked at their life and said "I feel like a cow trying to play an MMO"?

1666: Amsterdam, best known as the brainchild of Assassin's Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets before its reveal was marred by some impressively terrible AI art, has as of recent times “totally” moved on from AI. That’s according to Désilets, who, speaking with GamesRadar, claimed that his company had fired up the plagiarism machine “mostly at the beginning … in conception and pre-production.” Now, though, AI’s out of the pipeline. Hm, where have we heard this kind of thing before?