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News - This Week in Videogames
Covering the important things happening in the world of videogames. News, reviews, and insights without ads or filler content.


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News, guides, reviews, opinions, features, and more from the world of video games. Inverse covers everything from the latest releases to the ongoing console wars, esports updates, and leaks from your favorite developers.

Playtester: Alphas, Betas & Demos for Upcoming Games
Discover alphas, betas, playtests, and demos for upcoming indie and mainstream games across Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, itch.io, and more.

The Video Game Library | All Books on Videogames
The Video Game Library is a site that celebrates books about videogames. From artbooks and children's books to novelizations and biographies. Indie writers to best-selling authors. Atari to Xbox. Come have a look and discover some books.

500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter
During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game. The avid reader of my blog might have noticed that I had previously written two posts that have since been removed. Everyone else might now be wondering which game I am talking about. To both of you I can only say that corporate America was here to ruin our fun.

The hidden ‘rules of the game’ that dictate how we navigate the world | Psyche Videos
How free are we really, if human behaviour embodies the complex, intertwined webs of society and history?

AI Fiction in the Wild
This website hosts anonymized ChatGPT-user conversations where users requested some form of fiction generation—including stories, novels, scripts, roleplay, hypothetical scenarios, erotic imaginings, and more. The data is drawn from WildChat and was collected voluntarily and with users’ consent between 2023 and 2024. The models were powered by GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
AI Fiction in the Wild
This website hosts anonymized ChatGPT-user conversations where users requested some form of fiction generation—including stories, novels, scripts, roleplay, hypothetical scenarios, erotic imaginings, and more. The data is drawn from WildChat and was collected voluntarily and with users’ consent between 2023 and 2024. The models were powered by GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
Northsky
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
Read the free, open access editionBuy: Amazon, Bookshop, Narrow Gauge Book Co-op, UC Press
Play old games: They're good and good for you
With prices skyrocketing and more and more bad news about contemporary video games every day, here's a suggestion: play old games!

GameDate - Revive Dead Games
Schedule sessions for dead games, niche mods, and retro netplay. No account needed.
A more social IndieWeb | Dominik Hofer
My entry for the IndieWeb Carnival of December 2025 about the IndieWeb in 2030.
