Quake Brutalist Jam 3 is breathtakingly gorgeous and cleverly constructed. Incredible work by the team and in my opinion - worthy of joining the modding pantheon with Arcane Dimensions And it's free, you can go play a standalone version, even if you don't own Quake: www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...

Time for more Menu Cube posting 😌

Mothership is a new website about gender and games which feels like a radical thing to launch in 2026 but shouldn't be https://kotaku.com/mothership-is-a-new-website-about-gender-and-games-which-feels-like-a-radical-thing-to-launch-in-2026-but-shouldnt-be-2000658510

I cannot stress this enough: this is not possible in a literal technological sense: you cannot train an AI and expect even comprehensible results with under ~1 million pieces of data, nobody can supply all that with the variance needed. You can only achieve it through wanton scraping

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

“Teen Vogue for Video Games” is an incredible pitch

read @ethangach.bsky.social's interview with the founders of @mothership.blog, a new gaming site from very cool people launching later this month that will put identity front and center. i'm stoked. kotaku.com/mothership-i...

And now, here's Tim Curry singing "Toxic Love" from FernGully

Just realized that this year will mark 10 years of writing stuff at Kotaku. And April marks six years as a full-time staff writer. Wild to think about.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Happy Friday! You've already heard from us and every other gaming site around, so now it's your turn. What was your favorite video game of 2025?

ICE raided my neighborhood today. They took a person off the street who was in the middle of painting a renovated building. His ladder was left standing on the sidewalk with his paint sitting out as if he left to get something out of his car. He was just doing his job.

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

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few things i enjoy more than linkedin weirdos getting owned this bad

In the midst of everything else this is low stakes stuff but it kind of drives me Cthulhu level insane to know that Trump thinks that if he possesses the gold Nobel medal, that means he won the Nobel peace prize

Show me you've never trained with a kettlebell without telling me you've never trained with a kettlebell 😂

Q: Is this ICE officer immune to charges? HENNEPIN COUNTY ATTORNEY MORIARTY: I can't speak to why the Trump administration says what it says. I can say the ICE officer does not have complete immunity here.

"INCLUDES NJ TRANSIT ALP-45DP!" I love that this is advertised on the box.

here is an essay about A Knight’s Tale this is the most important thing i’ve ever written goodmovie.substack.com/p/a-knights-...

really love thinking about how ICE is not only a recent creation and serves no purpose but also every presidency in my lifetime is far more restrictive and punitive on immigration than reagan, of all fucking people, was

i know a lot of games journalists and critics follow me, and you'll notice that mothership.blog already has a "How to pitch" page live, along with a few other pages! so yes, please, go ahead and pitch. i'm so excited to announce this in part to get more of your voices out there.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

And now, here's Tim Curry singing "Toxic Love" from FernGully

The rage that has to exist in the average Minnesotan to watch someone stuck on an icy hill and STAND BY AND TAUNT THEM

The Cuktech 15 Ultra (yes, that's its name) isn't the best USB power bank on the market but it's affordable and charges very, very fast. aftermath.site/i-love-my-susp...

I spent the last few days digging around the web for evidence that Todd Howard hates New Vegas and all I found was lots of proof he likes the game, Obsidian, and the people who made it. But I bet people will still keep spreading this rumor around for years to come.

Todd Howard has spent the past decade praising New Vegas. And yet, fans still think he hates it.

Well, out of nowhere, I’ve been let go once again from ComicBook.com. This is a pretty sudden shock, especially since I busted my ass working there. I’m pretty devastated and don’t know what I’m going to do. Please let me know if anyone has any work for me, thank you

a study spanning multiple continents involving 50+ co-authors has found that the oceans added a record amount of heat in 2025—the energy equivalent of 12 atomic bombs going off in the ocean, one of the authors told me it's the eighth year in a row that the oceans have broken heat records like this

Boar's Head, again. Listeria, again. Pecorino cheese

Tennessee university reinstates professor fired for post criticizing Charlie Kirk Austin Peay State University will also pay theater and dance professor Darren Michael $500,000 in settlement www.theguardian.com/... 1/2

happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were

My roommate is a teacher and has reported that ICE has been hanging around Septa stops and depots in the interest of abducting kids on their way home because they aren’t allowed to enter schools. They claimed to be part of a “Septa Strike Force” which does not exist. Boost if you can.

we lost the pivot to video we can fight the rotation of video

They're always lying but they are most especially lying if they are talking about gangs

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

Overheard at the Waymo booth in CES 2026: "Right now I'm contemplating getting my bunion surgery and I asked ChatGPT should I get it in the US...and she says do it in Japan."

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Did my best to summarize everything that came out today about Kansas City's Rashee Rice. His ex-girlfriend published a lengthy post on Instagram yesterday, describing physical abuse. Gift link: defector.com/ex-girlfrien...

Just found out my wife might be losing her job, so I'm desperately searching for work. Contract, full-time, freelance, whatever. Press, PR, consulting, anything. I have 16 years of editorial experience and have been writing about games for 13. Reviews, news, previews, guides, etc. RTs appreciated.

I’m working on a story talking with Anthem fans as we head into its final days, but if you’re a BioWare dev (current or former) who wants to talk about the game, its legacy, and its fate, on or off the record, I would love to hear from you. Can be reached at [email protected]. RTs appreciated!

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

Wolfeinstein 3 needs to punch Nazis even harder https://kotaku.com/wolfenstein-3-sequel-nazis-trump-ice-machinegames-2000658228