The 2025 Video Game News Thread (I was forced by anti-innovation communists to change the title again)

:brazil: The Ubisoft Brasil commercial for Assassin’s Creed Shadows is :ok_hand:

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Balatro winning multiple awards and game of the year at the GDC awards.

But simultaneously getting zero awards, one nomination and an honourable mention at the IGF at the same event says a lot.

I’m not sure what. But a lot of it.

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I’ll follow this up with this certified Hashtag_Game_Industry_Moment

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Jeff Grubb just called Palmer Lucky (I don’t care how it’s spelled) ā€˜a human flip-flop that got left in the TMNT ooze’

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I think it will be interesting to have Steam (and Itch etc.) on Xbox, but I think I’d prefer if Xbox just ported it’s backwards compatibility to Windows.

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I saw that too, but IP TV/film rights are sold all the time and almost never materialize into anything tangible. I doubt this is anything different.

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Helllllooooooooo nurse

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Out!

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I bounced off the first one because I could not figure out how the game wanted me to play early on. I need to reinstall it.

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I need to build a gaming pc for this stuff more than anything else lol

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Definitely some jank around the edges, esp toward the end, but has come the closest to capturing that ā€œwhat comes nextā€ feeling for me that dark souls does so well. Which I suppose shouldn’t be surprising given the influence.

@mack41 Lunacid and ufo 50 were the games that pushed me to buy a steam deck

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Please build one to these specs exactly it would be funny.

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@MoH part of me thinks a dedicated PC would be best for the way I like to play (couch on TV) but part of me knows I hate using a computer to game bc I am a console baby and feel like I’m working or get distracted. It’s those exact type of games that are pushing me to a gaming PC. M1 Mac is good but limiting for certain indies.

@Mnemogenic would be so affordable too…

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Battlestation

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Time to play some dune 2.

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The bad week keeps getting worse for the con-con drama grifters. Thank goodness there’s that new Snow White movie nobody cares about to distract the attention from the unjust and pride-shattering success of Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

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Not sure anyone saw this coming

edit: so I did some googling, Gunzilla Games (the new owner) is owned by Neil Blomkamp and developing an NFT game?

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I never feel reassured when a news outlet gets bought by somebody shady and they insist they’re going to retain independence.

And yeah their battle royale has a disclaimer on the Epic Store that it’s crypto.

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Zombie brands walk the earth animated by rich white dudes.

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