Truly the dumbest timeline: Mexican president formally requests Google Maps does not re-name the Gulf of Mexico, jokes about renaming North America ‘América Mexicana’

It is one of life’s truisms that, whenever you see something and think “this couldn’t possibly get any dumber”, it will then proceed to astound and amaze you with just how god damn dumb it can get. Today’s exhibit A is US President Donald Trump’s idea that the Gulf of Mexico, an enormous body of…

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Hello Kitty Island Adventure warns players coming from ‘other cozy games’ not to do that cheat-y time travel stuff or risk corrupting their save files

Hello Kitty Island Adventure arrived this week as the newest and cutest in the genre of ‘games where you’re stuck on an island with those licensed property characters you love’ but hold your darn Turfys just a minute. HKIA has kicked off its PC launch with a warning that bringing your cheater-pants system date changing…

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Warner Bros. says that’s all, folks for Multiversus: The next season will be its last, but you’ll be able to play offline ‘for the foreseeable future’

Multiversus, the WB Games Smash Bros.-style brawler that was brave enough to explore what it would be like if Samurai Jack and LeBron James met on the field of battle, is approaching the end of its long, strange road. Earlier today, WB Games announced on X that the game’s fifth season, beginning next week on…

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Spider-Man 2 swings straight into hard crashes, performance issues, and a very mixed Steam rating: ‘Issues up the wazoo’

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launched on PC yesterday, the latest in the conveyor belt of PlayStation first-party games that now spend a year or two exclusively on console before coming to PC. Insomniac’s open-world sequel was generally well-received on console, and the quality of Sony’s PC ports has seemed to be improving over recent releases, but…

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‘It’s just such a depressing thing’: Mythic Quest’s creative team on the challenge of making a comedy amidst widespread gaming industry layoffs

“Mythic Quest lost a lot of good people… when we fired them,” says David Bricklesbee (played by David Hornsby) in the first episode of Mythic Quest Season 4. The workplace comedy about a dysfunctional game development studio doesn’t waste any time referencing the biggest game industry trend of the past two years: mass layoffs. Bricklesbee,…

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‘On a pirate ship, they’d toss the captain overboard’: Larian head of publishing tears into EA after BioWare layoffs waste ‘institutional knowledge’

So, BioWare probably isn’t going to be making a new Dragon Age game any time soon—maybe ever, depending on how things go. After Dragon Age: The Veilguard underperformed, much of its team (including senior members who had been making Dragon Age games for a while) were shuffled around or laid off. This isn’t necessarily out…

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