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This is rough
13.02.2026 22:37 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 2 π 1Me that one time the gummy was supposed to be cut into eighths
13.02.2026 21:47 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Despicable
13.02.2026 20:46 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Update: Earlier this week, it was reported that 1,200 developers went on strike at Ubisoft in France and Italy.
Days later, Ubisoft is pushing back saying that number was much lower as it focuses on "maintaining an open and constructive dialogue" with angry employees
kotaku.com/ubisoft-stri...
My motherboard is 12 years old today
13.02.2026 18:16 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You know you're not Bloomberg's target audience when
13.02.2026 17:24 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0for The Verge, I interviewed Edmund McMillen about Mewgenics' long road to release, unexpected success, and making a game with just about any disorder you can name www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
13.02.2026 15:12 β π 72 π 13 π¬ 2 π 8This is like 10x more brazen than anything you'll read in a Naomi Klein book or hear on Democracy Now
13.02.2026 15:15 β π 184 π 49 π¬ 1 π 0I have no idea. Steam wishlists are strong. This isn't meant to be a commentary on that, just how studios chase attention in 2026
13.02.2026 01:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is not a putdown, just describing events!
13.02.2026 00:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The director of Marathon is playing with a peanut to get people to buy the game
13.02.2026 00:29 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0idle!
12.02.2026 23:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hope the game does well this is just an idol thought as I try to select an image for the beta that everyone is excited to play and it's all of dead bodies.
12.02.2026 23:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One of the new launch trailer screenshots from Bungie PR for Marathon is the one every story's gona use if it doesn't do well.
12.02.2026 23:45 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0The Sony Ponies beg for more multiplayer slop
12.02.2026 22:10 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Like seriously what is going on! nymag.com/intelligence...
12.02.2026 21:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Everyone's looking like a fool by rushing to not look like a fool
12.02.2026 21:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The viral AI covid poster being the viral AI slop game guy is making me go insane so I wrote about it kotaku.com/the-viral-ai...
12.02.2026 21:10 β π 56 π 7 π¬ 3 π 1Websites should blog more imo kotaku.com/magic-gather...
12.02.2026 19:40 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0One of my favorite things Iβve published is this interview with the Knockout City team. I feel like you donβt see a lot of studios speaking so openly of their struggles like this. Knockout City was an all-timer, man.
12.02.2026 17:16 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1The live service game death spiral is a bleak one.
It's difficult to avoid and all but impossible to escape. Here's what the heads of Specter Divide (remember that) said about the dead game stench back in 2024.
kotaku.com/highguard-la...
spending hours pouring over the Mass Effect codex like a narrative information junkie
12.02.2026 16:40 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I don't know, I feel like there's been an aggressive uptick in "TKTK proves the system is broken" when sometimes things are just completely perpendicular or tangential to "my theory that explains the whole mess"
12.02.2026 03:50 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Labels are inevitable but standards are what matter"
12.02.2026 03:43 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Update: Wildlight confirms big layoffs but says core group will remain.
"Today we made an incredibly difficult decision to part ways with a number of our team members while keeping a core group of developers to continue innovating on and supporting the game."
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This sucks.
Oh, yea I think he was sub tweeting a thing that's happening on X, which is also what spurred me
11.02.2026 22:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Which thread was this?
11.02.2026 22:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0