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Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again"
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Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again"

Helldivers 2's latest in-game campaign sees the champions of strategically mitigated democracy supervising the construction of yet another massive wall of pine-scented gas in space. Kicking off with the Frontlines of Freedom update, out now, it's a bid to keep those evil "fascist" Terminid insects away from Super Earth, building on the foundations of the abortive original "Termicide" campaign back in March 2024. It's also a pisstake of US president Donald Trump's dreams of constructing a massiv

Exodus' character creator won't let you totally mess up its protagonist's "established look" with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard
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Exodus' character creator won't let you totally mess up its protagonist's "established look" with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard

If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your eyes aren't too close together when you fire up Mass Effecty sci-fi RPG Exodus, I've got bad news. Rather than a slider-based character creator with ten million sliders controlling the likes of cheek yaw and ear curvitude, devs Archetype Entertainment have decided to set the majority of protagonist Jun Aslan's face in stone to make him a more defined person, leaving only the likes of hair and tattoos fo

"Low-effort slop": The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on "vibe-coding" and now require genAI disclosures
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"Low-effort slop": The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on "vibe-coding" and now require genAI disclosures

The foundation behind the open source Godot game engine have announced a crackdown on the use of generative AI by contributors, following a wave of "demoralizing", "low-effort slop" that has added to an already overwhelming quantity of requests for code review. While they'll still let people deploy the chatbot technology for smaller, "menial" jobs such as finding and replacing code, they're taking a stricter stance on "vibe coding" – aka, asking a bot to generate whole swathes of code &n

Anime Card Farm codes (July 2026)
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Anime Card Farm codes (July 2026)

If you need free gems, potions, or trait rerolls, these new Anime Card Farm codes should help you on your journey to collect every card.

Godot Engine to get stricter on AI contributed code
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Godot Engine to get stricter on AI contributed code

The developers of the free, open source and cross-platform Godot Engine are adjusting their policies to get stricter on AI code contributions.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Xbox claim they're "not reducing [their] investment in games" despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft's total workforce are in the firing line
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Xbox claim they're "not reducing [their] investment in games" despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft's total workforce are in the firing line

Despite yesterday bringing more news of Xbox backing out of funding deals and considering putting studios on the chopping block, the company insist such moves aren't a sign that the mass cuts they've reportedly got in the works are a sign of them scaling back how much cash they're pumping into making games. At the same time, a new report claims that the layoffs wider Microsoft have planned are projected to affect less than 2.5% of the corp's overall workforce, not that that'll soften the blow b

"Keeping this under wraps has been torture": Against the Storm 2 could happen, but first, Eremite are making a survival game set in the city-builder's festering world
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"Keeping this under wraps has been torture": Against the Storm 2 could happen, but first, Eremite are making a survival game set in the city-builder's festering world

Eremite Games are making a survival game set in the bleak fantasy world of their Bestest Best roguelite city-builder Against The Storm. They've announced the project with a brief video snippet of a two hooded adventurers, stalking through some rainy woodlands towards a log cabin. From this I deduce that the plan is to support co-op multiplayer. Possibly also cabin-building. Certainly, an abundance of menace. Read more

Green Suits is a surreal platformer stroke JRPG filled with Escher architecture and paranormal investigators
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Green Suits is a surreal platformer stroke JRPG filled with Escher architecture and paranormal investigators

Sometimes I feel that my taste in media is a bit hard to pin down, given that I like shows like Twin Peaks and manga like Chainsaw Man, two series where their similarities mostly stop and start at featuring governmental figures. Enter Green Suits, a game whose dev describes it as those two things fused together, throwing in JRPGs, platforming, and a "drama-based combat system," to make a concoction that feels catered to me personally. Read more

Microsoft reportedly add Arkane and their Blade game to the potential shuttering pile
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Microsoft reportedly add Arkane and their Blade game to the potential shuttering pile

There's a lot of whispers about studios shutting down around Microsoft and Xbox at the moment. They've been primarily fluttering between Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion, but this week has now seen State of Decay developer Undead Labs added to the list of "companies Xbox bought to build up Game Pass but are ultimately shuttering because they've done a bad job at making line go up." And now yet more reports have emerged, with what remains of Arkane potentially being put up on the chopp