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

if I may interject - pops are blocs of different social/economic/cultural classes that are an attempt to model how these blocs behave (rural agrarian blocs move to the city and become proletarian pops, educated pops seek professional jobs and join attendant political formations, etc). I think a lot of paradox players old enough to remember when they were introduced way back in Victoria 2 how complicated/cool this dynamic was even in that more modest setting, so seeing it applied to a Europa Universalis scale which is much more massive in scope (14th century late medieval world to the Industrial Revolution) is wild to think about. So more complexity it would seem.

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Akihiro Hino, marketing savant:

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(hat in hand) The AI controlled ghost of James Earl Jones has joined the Fortnite family.

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My brother sent me a clip within like an hour of this going live of someone getting Vader to say the f-slur

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there are clips of him roleplaying a sexual encounter and also making fun of goku

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It’s crazy to see that Too Kyo games is announcing a new game in which Kodaka is the main force… AGAIN. One month later.

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I’m not sure I can recall any other company quite as skilled as Bungie at repeatedly building good-will and then doing everything imaginable to destroy it

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Without a Dawn looks good. Comes out May 19.

The Siege and the Sandfox looks good. Comes out May 20.

Gunmetal Gothic looks good. Comes out May 21 in Early Access some time in 2026 but there should be a demo dropping out this summer.

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I’ve yet got to play Peripeteia and maybe Psycho Patrol R, but Gunmetal Gothic seems to be an incredible game on first sight.

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No one’s doing it like Randy P

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I agree with him. I am also mortally terrified of the borderlands fan who will stop at nothing to ā€œmake it happenā€

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Ewwwwwww

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Here is my list of favorite Gearbox games:

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randy got that Dan Flashes style going

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wait - Dan Flashes is real??

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i think this had to have been made after the show or an existing business changed their name to capitalize on the popularity.

calico cut pants, on the other hand, are very real. and you gotta give.

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why does this picture exist? not asking rhetorically

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This is where the Pitchfords found him. They named him Randy and decided to raise him as their own.

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keita takashi’s t-pose game has a demo

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in saying that ā€œreal fansā€ will pay whatever $$$ pitchford is simply telling the uncomfortable truth about all nintendo gamers

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