Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...

Ever since Microsoft laid off 1,600 employees and—in the process—kicked multiple studios to the curb, there’s been uncertainty about how the split will impact games originally published under its ...

Hello [local business owner]! I see that you've started posting new ads and menus on Facebook, Instagram and sometimes even outside your store on physical signs, and they're starting to look ...

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

The following is an excerpt from CTRL: Essays on Video Games, a book published by The Lilliput Press and edited by Dean Fee. Chasing Lilacs, by Brenda Romero, is a personal history told through the ...

Earlier this week Stella Sacco, a former lead writer at Saber Interactive, claimed on social media that the company had "replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development" of the game Rideshare ...

Today Xbox CEO Asha Sharma took a trip to Bethesda Game Studios in Rockville, Maryland. She was welcomed with open arms, of a sort. Those arms belonged to a giant inflatable version of Scabby, a rat ...

There are certain games whose impact is largely obscure to most Western audiences due in large part to what made it over here. And though fan translations and YouTube have helped quite a bit, certain ...

Nintendo showed a preview of what to expect in the upcoming Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave on Tuesday. Apparently this includes a gun. Fortune’s Weave looks fucking fantastic. While there’s another Fire ...

Today Twitch announced that Amazon plans to scrape the popular livestreaming platform for AI training data. During a follow-up stream, Twitch staff attempted to answer questions and assuage users’ ...

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There are a bunch of things in both video games and real life that I’m no good at: following directions. Staying with a group. Thinking through how to get where I’m going instead of just navigating ...