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Stop Using Our Game to Spread Fake News
Video games depicting armed military combat have come a long way from the rudimentary, textureless early iterations of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor. But what happens when graphics and gameplay collide and progress to a point where they can fool casual observers into mistaking gameplay for reality? While Fox News and company would like to use realistic games as a scapegoat for mass murders, there’s a far more real and present danger already occurring: countries and state actors are using game footage to spread misinformation. Now, one major game developer is calling on users and media outlets to cut it out. Bohemia Interactive, the Prague-based developers behind the…
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Look at all the fake games Valve made-up for the recent Steam sale
Valve recently hosted the now-traditional Steam summer sale, during which it used the promotion to hide a kind of store ‘minigame’ for players. Essentially a time traveller called Clorthax tells you they’ve nicked ten games from the future and offers up riddles to help players find them. The sale’s over now and Clorthax has returned to their own time and place, which means Valve artist Claire Hummel could share all the cover art she mocked-up for the future games. HEYYY the Steam Summer Sale has concluded, so I can finally share all of the fake game art I got to make for it! 😎👍🏼The idea for this sale was to…