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Videogames Are Mainstream. What Will Make Them Feel Like It? - Unwinnable About half the people in the world play videogames of some kind, but coverage of them outside specialized outlets is almost nowhere.

My July column asks a simple question and tries to answer it. Please enjoy!

ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY

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[slo mo tim rogers voice]

"ViDeOgAmEs HaVe CoMe A LoNg wAy SiNcE pAc MaN"

Goes without saying, it is absolutely fucking obscene that Mouthwashing - arguably one of our better examples of video games as a serious storytelling art form in recent years - has been removed from itchio due to pressure from pay processing services and weirdo activism.

The Sunday Papers The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web.

If you are, for some reason, wading into the fetid swamps of games journalism as a career, you'll find lots of wisdom in these words from Graham Smith: www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...

Found this on TikTok and it made me emotional ❤️

Artists create universes from nothing.

Being an animator is an intimate understanding of life, environments, physics, what it MEANS to be alive, and the ability to convey the beauty within our world in seconds.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 Half-Life 2 gets a small surprise update that lets you once again beat a train in a game of chicken on Highway 17.

Half-Life 2 got a surprise update for speed runners or train spotters, it's hard to tell www.rockpapershotgun.com/after-18-yea...

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everything's so scary nowadays. the seeds of paranoia are everywhere. someone posts an anime girl on the timeline and she might be a horse. very concerning.

To me, this whole situation is systemic: venture capital calling the shots, understaffed sites, underpaid writers--of course the work (and its writers) get lost in the shuffle

this is a joke about famous fighter pilot Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas A. Shilage. please disregard

Ace Combat 7 (2019)

A little daily ritual I accidentally formed this year: to arrange even one tiny phrase or poem on this fridge poetry website playhtml.fun/fridge.html

wrote about how social media has us constantly barking at ghosts 😌

Also Nicole and Aftermath put up the whole lawsuit on Scribd which meant the rest of us in the media can easily flip through it too like hungry hyenas offered a spare zebra leg. Thank you!

Paying the Subnautica 2 team their promised bonus would be "embarrassing", Krafton's CEO allegedly told the game's chief over lunch Unknown Worlds co-founder Charlie Cleveland went to lunch with Krafton CEO, Kim Chang-han, who allegedly said having to pay an earnout would be "embarrassing".

Imagine going to lunch with your boss and he says: "If I paid you that Christmas bonus, I'd look weak dude" - unhinged behaviour from Krafton (allegedly)
www.rockpapershotgun.com/paying-the-s...

You can read the full lawsuit here:

My level design work on Slave Zero X I worked on action-heavy beat ’em up Slave Zero X as a level designer in 2022. It was fast-paced, tough, yet ultimately one of the most exciting and personally rewarding gigs I’ve ever …

I was a level designer on a retro action game in 2022, and when the game came out last year I kinda forgot to celebrate that achievement. So here's a little rundown of the things I'm proud of, and some stuff I learned. brendycaldwell.com/2025/07/16/m...

Looking for a character designer who likes Metal Gear, BLAME!, Ghost in the Shell, etc

if you have that mix of techwear + military + sci-fi, hit me up

(yes this is a terrible, expensive, inefficient solution - no i do not care)

Kaizen: A Factory Story continues the Zachtronics tradition of letting you share lil gifs of your machines :3 Here's my review: www.rockpapershotgun.com/kaizen-a-fac...

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

This is his time.

one of the best to have ever done did it 🫡

After 12 years, I'm leaving RPS at the end of this month. This also brings to an end 8 years with Gamer Network, during which I was lucky enough to manage several websites, help with events like EGX, PAX and MCM under ReedPop, and more. Now it's time for someone else to lead RPS in a new phase.

do your own writing first, and let the tiredness come during your day job 💅

Oh my god I tried it myself to check.... not as spectacular, but ladies and gentlemen: THE HUHEE.

The Last Of Us Part 2 gets new mode nobody asked for Naughty Dog have released a new mode for The Last Of Us Part 2 that lets you play out events of the story in chronological order. Who wants this?

Please, makers of art, stop listening to executives who say "this is confusing, nobody will understand it" www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-last-of-...