Is today's puzzle game scene interesting? 'No, I don't think it is,' says Jonathan Blow, even though there are 'really good games in the past' devs could look to for inspiration
October 6, 2026
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Is today’s puzzle game scene interesting? ‘No, I don’t think it is,’ says Jonathan Blow, even though there are ‘really good games in the past’ devs could look to for inspiration

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Jonathan Blow—that fellow who made Braid and The Witness—revealed his new game at last year’s Game Awards. Order of the Sinking Star, in the making for nine years, is pitched as a “game design supercollider” that mashes together four separate puzzle games into an enormous puzzle chimaera, throbbing with 500 hours of hot solving content….

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‘The largest theft of labor in human history:’ Court docs reveal Microsoft exec predicted AI ‘doom loops’ could hollow out the internet

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In Dec. 2023, The New York Times filed one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in recent memory against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that its AI models heisted ludicrous amounts of journalistic work from the Times. Two days ago, a court filing (hosted and analyzed by Ars Technica) was newly unsealed with all sorts of revealing…

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Pragmata Loves Being a Video Game

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Category: Games March 18, 2026 Pragmata Loves Being a Video Game Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief The last time I played Pragmata, I came away delighted by how it was inserting a truly new idea into a very familiar genre, building a hacking minigame into the fabric of third-person shooter combat. Almost a year later,…

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