Young men are ‘playing videogames all day’ instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

Medicaid is a US health insurance program for people with low incomes. It’s funded by states and the federal government, and like most government programs that help people in some way, it’s one of the Trump administration’s targets for cuts. Why? It’s those dang videogames again, of course. Part of the plan is to implement…

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My biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft’s 25-year-old game making toolset

2023’s Lunacid is one of my favorite indies, dungeon crawlers, and just games, period of the last few years. It’s a first person RPG taking after FromSoftware’s King’s Field series, set in an unforgettable subterranean world festooned with secrets. Creator Kira LLC has just released their next project, a follow-up to Lunacid, but there are…

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‘Oh god’: There’s a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you’ve ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

There’s a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it can’t tell you how precisely much you’ve actually spent on Valve’s wallet-plundering platform, microtransactions and all. That potentially startling number is buried in Steam’s help menus, it turns out. The relevant Steam help…

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White House claims ‘the Trump Effect in action’ as Nvidia announces plans to build AI chips and supercomputers in the US

Nvidia says it’s joining with “leading manufacturing partners” to design and build factories that will enable it to build and test Nvidia Blackwell chip and AI supercomputers entirely in the US for the first time ever, an initiative it says will produce up to $500 billion in “AI infrastructure.” “Nvidia Blackwell chips have started production…

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Former Concord dev says ‘it was gut wrenching to see our project fail’ but urges players not to judge Marathon too soon: ‘To call this game a failure before it’s even out is wild to me’

Gameplay of Bungie’s extraction shooter Marathon was finally revealed over the weekend, and while there’s plenty of excitement for it, a not-negligible number of gamers have jumped into the conversation to make unflattering comparisons to Concord. Spurred by those reactions, a former Concord developer has taken to Reddit (via VG247) to encourage everyone to give…

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