Gaming

AI in video games is a caustic enough subject that Valve requires developer disclosure if a title utilizes the generative technology. This way, people who have qualms about AI or its impact can opt out of purchasing anything that uses the genAI. One developer, however, is saving everyone from the moral quandary in the first place by just deleting their game altogether.

Plus, Nex Playground heads to Europe and Phasmaphobia devs launch publishing arm

Fortnite now allows creator-made games to sell in-game items — and immediately, the platform’s most popular experience Steal the Brainrot has added $45 premium item bundles and a chance-based roulette wheel.

Bought the Ultimate Edition from GoG when it was on sale, as I haven’t done any of the DLCs before.

Today’s game is some more Halo 3. Me and my friend went through with our plans to play Halo 3 today. We almost went through the entire game in one sitting like usual. The only thing that stopped us was a crash at the very end of The Covenant. We still had a damn good run though.

I played the shit out of this game for a year or so before it just completely died. I came across a post about it earlier today that reminded me how great it was. I miss it a lot. Relatively slow moving, strategic, 3D space arena teamed CTF, I made some great friends playing that game.

Today’s game is Halo 3. I was bored and doing a little “Spring Cleaning” of my Steam Library, narrowing everything down to what’s on hold and what i’m playing. Right now Max Payne and Halo are in the Currently Playing, while my on hold looks like this:

The Quake community regularly performs map jams. While I haven’t tracked the efforts of the previous ones, this jam results in a large, nonsequential set of maps on offer, combined with a full conversion that creates new enemy variants, and remixes Quake’s known weapons into new forms (dual nailguns, a rebar cannon, a multi-missile launcher, and a gemstone that functions like Doom 3’s soul cube).

Today’s game is Phasmophobia. After moving PCs it took me a while to get it set up again on my PC. Apparently i needed the SteamDeck=1 command to get Voice Chat to work on Non-Steam Deck devices. After that though it worked perfectly.

I like how this article does not talk about the anti consumer practices engaged in by Nintendo, that might push some customers away from their consoles. /s Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA. There is already a switch in my household, but the price along with the ability to remotely brick the device, is what made our household pass on the switch 2. We bought a second steam deck instead.

A couple weeks from now, on January 26, 2026, we’ll be launching the full version of our new gaming website, Mothership, which aims to analyze games specifically through the lens of gender and identity. Stepping into the shoes of another person or thing, inhabiting a body other than your own, is an inextricable part of the experience of playing a game. We here at Mothership — a queer and women-owned independent video game publication co-founded by Polygon veterans Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah — have always understood that this is what games are about.

Manor Lords and Terra Invicta publishers Hooded Horse are imposing a strict ban on generative AI assets in their games, with company co-founder Tim Bender describing it as an “ethics issue” and “a very frustrating thing to have to worry about”.

Happy 2026! It’s been way too long since I posted a new game review. (Has it seriously been 4-1/2 months?!) Life has been interfering with my gaming lately, and my list of games I want to review is only getting longer and more daunting. Then, StarRupture released 3 days ago!

Today’s game is Max Payne. I continued my playthrough today with a friend who’s on call. I was just kind of peeking around with the camera when i noticed the writing on the wall behind Max (literally). I probably missed it my first playthrough because i was blind, but it’s kind of ironic that the writing was literally on the wall the entire game.

Steam adds support for branch-specific Workshop mod versions

Today’s game is Animal Crossing New Leaf. I apologize for the abysmal compression. If i had known the screenshots were going to come out like this i would have picked another game entirely.

This update focuses on expanding the game’s accessibility to a global audience and fine-tuning the gameplay pace to enhance visual clarity.

Ubisoft’s first North American union, located at their Halifax, Nova Scotia studio, was certified on December 18th, 2025. Now, not even a full 30 days later, Ubisoft Halifax is closing.

Developers making mods and plugins for hentai games and sex toys say Github recently unleashed a wave of suspensions and bans against their repositories, and the platform hasn’t explained why.

Welcome to the beginning of the end.

There’s a moment, early on in Mirror’s Edge, where the game stops explaining itself and lets motion do the talking.

Today’s game is Max Payne. I went ahead and figured out how to renable the Developer tools again and was just playing around with it. Remedy games are always the most fun to do this with because not only does it let you get out neat screenshots (like the one above), but theres some interesting things to be found out of bounds.

Also check this out if you played SimCity 2000:

Having played Alwa’s Legacy first, I did not expect this ending! Great game, although I like the sequel better ☺️

Today’s game is Red Dead Online. Me and my friend played in a private lobby and just hunted some stuff. It’s honestly one of my favorite ways to spend my time playing this game. I don’t think i have it in me to directly take an Animal’s life, so this game kind of lets me get the experience of it without the guilt (though, when i fuck up a shot and the animal suffers i do feel pretty bad too).

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This update introduces a new layer of immersion to Starfish ROOM through the implementation of a dedicated dialogue system. Players will now encounter specific narrative interactions with various alien entities, adding personality and context to the arena combat.