OnlyGaming

I was frustrated by the lack of articles listing every video game studio confirmed to be using AI, so I made my own.

Today’s game is Red Dead Online. I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been packing a lot to move, so you know what the perfect way to unwind is? My favorite multiplayer Fishing/Hunting/Gambling sim with my best friend.

Valve previously implemented a rule that forced developers to disclose their use of generative AI in any games published on Steam. This new guidelines required developers to disclose generative AI use when it resulted in AI-generated content in the game itself—AI-generated images, textures, or 3D models, for example—or when the game was actively using AI to generate new content during gameplay. Now, Steam has apparently updated its generative-AI disclosure system (via Simon Carless on LinkedIn) to be clearer and to add nuance to the discussion, especially given the rise in popularity of AI code helpers and similar tools. Developers will still need to disclose all AI-generated content in their games, and Valve will still display the disclosure on the game’s Steam Store page.

Developers say “this was not something we wanted” as they purge open source project.

Today’s game is Halo 4. I continued my playlist with my friend and we started on this. Upon replaying it, i think i may have been too harsh on my initial decision against the game (though i’m not going to 100 say it for sure). I know it seems obvious, but playing on normal as opposed to legendary really makes it a bit more tolerable. Don’t get me wrong, it’s Halo 4, but it’s come from like a 5.5/10 to a 6.5/10 for me.

This update focuses on visual polish for the upgrade system and significant changes to the enemy encounter logic to increase gameplay intensity. - Upgrade Card Visual Overhaul I have completely redesigned the upgrade cards to improve clarity and aesthetic appeal. The new system features unique frames and a refreshed color palette for each card type. This visual distinction helps players quickly identify upgrade categories during the fast-paced “Level Up” moments, where the character turns blue to signal the pause in action.

Come join us for some pixel art games! There’s a prize (its not much, 50 bucks or a steam card), teams of 5 people or less. Let’s make some fun fames!

If you haven’t played this game, highly recommend it. Fun 80’s sci-fi movie vibes… with dwarves. Always stuff to do but it’s not overwhelming. Definitely benefits from playing with friends but it’s fun solo too.

Fallout Shelter (working title) is a new reality competition series based on the hit Amazon drama and computer game of the same name. The dwellers (contestants) live together in a top-secret vault, where they will compete in a series of games that tests the seven core attributes from the Fallout world. Strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck (S.P.E.C.I.A.L).

Good to know, but sad that it has to be said.

Source: https://xcancel.com/XBOXF10/status/2011452908550926481

Today’s game is some more Max Payne. Today was a bit short due time constraints and just overall exhaustion (i’m in the middle of moving). I did the Jack Lupino boss fight today. I bring this up because i wanted to talk about the very allusion to norse mythology, and which flew over my head until the last few chapters.

Sometimes it’s good to have some fun gaming news.

Zippy action, fun upgrade system make for a great pick-up-and-play shooter.

Apple’s platforms are also getting Retrocade, a library of classic arcade games.

We expressed concerns about Bully Online, a massively ambitious mod that promised to bring multiplayer and a host of new systems to Rockstar’s classic school sim, when we ran across it in November 2025. It looked great, but the initial release was limited to people willing to pay for it through the mod team’s Ko-Fi page, and that seemed like the sort of thing almost guaranteed to attract unwelcome attention from Rockstar’s lawyers. Sure enough, just a month after the mod launched, it’s gone.

Today’s game is Halo 3. Me and my Friend finished up our run. I believe last time i incorrectly stated that we finished it due to being used too finishing it all in one sitting. We did finish it this run though. The Covenant level seems to always be our major bottle neck, and this time was no different. It took us maybe 25 minutes this go around, though we did kill eachother a few times. You can piece together what happened from the screenshot above. We also always seem to have major network issues on this level though for some reason. I have no idea why but it always seems to happen.

Hey everyone! In case you haven’t noticed, this is a new community focused on NonPolitical Comics (NPCs), which essentially means no gloom and doom of the day stuff. If you like the idea, help out by upvoting, commenting, or even talking about us! Remember, click like and subscribe!

Note: Not my screenshot

Today’s game is some more Animal Crossing New Leaf. I’ve made it past the 3 day mark for abandonment! New record for me. What’s with the hat choice? I started buying whatever hat was in the first hat slot in the store. The sombrero just so happened to be today’s. Yesterday’s was a newsboy cap (and so far that one has been my favorite).

AI in video games is a caustic enough subject that Valve requires developer disclosure if a title utilizes the generative technology. This way, people who have qualms about AI or its impact can opt out of purchasing anything that uses the genAI. One developer, however, is saving everyone from the moral quandary in the first place by just deleting their game altogether.

Plus, Nex Playground heads to Europe and Phasmaphobia devs launch publishing arm

I didn’t make this, and I didn’t realize when I posted that this poor meme has been fried by AI (check out the woman’s eyes, as others have pointed out). I don’t know if it was part of the original or if someone tried to run it through a filter, but it does look rough. Sorry!

Fortnite now allows creator-made games to sell in-game items — and immediately, the platform’s most popular experience Steal the Brainrot has added $45 premium item bundles and a chance-based roulette wheel.

Ubisoft brought a billboard that says Tom Clancy’s The Division: Definitive Edition to FPS Day X in Tokyo, but have yet to announce it.

Today’s game is some more Halo 3. Me and my friend went through with our plans to play Halo 3 today. We almost went through the entire game in one sitting like usual. The only thing that stopped us was a crash at the very end of The Covenant. We still had a damn good run though.

I played the shit out of this game for a year or so before it just completely died. I came across a post about it earlier today that reminded me how great it was. I miss it a lot. Relatively slow moving, strategic, 3D space arena teamed CTF, I made some great friends playing that game.

Es wird wieder gewürfelt. Die #minicon geht in ihre vierzigste Ausgabe. Das sind also jetzt schon über 20 Jahre, die wir das machen - meine Güte, aber zum Würfeln ist mensch ja nie zu alt ;)

Today’s game is Halo 3. I was bored and doing a little “Spring Cleaning” of my Steam Library, narrowing everything down to what’s on hold and what i’m playing. Right now Max Payne and Halo are in the Currently Playing, while my on hold looks like this:

YouTuber ports the classic shooter to a Krups Cook4Me by reflashing its touchscreen computer.

The Quake community regularly performs map jams. While I haven’t tracked the efforts of the previous ones, this jam results in a large, nonsequential set of maps on offer, combined with a full conversion that creates new enemy variants, and remixes Quake’s known weapons into new forms (dual nailguns, a rebar cannon, a multi-missile launcher, and a gemstone that functions like Doom 3’s soul cube).

Today’s game is Phasmophobia. After moving PCs it took me a while to get it set up again on my PC. Apparently i needed the SteamDeck=1 command to get Voice Chat to work on Non-Steam Deck devices. After that though it worked perfectly.

I like how this article does not talk about the anti consumer practices engaged in by Nintendo, that might push some customers away from their consoles. /s Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA. There is already a switch in my household, but the price along with the ability to remotely brick the device, is what made our household pass on the switch 2. We bought a second steam deck instead.

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in the olden days, one would have to manually flick switches entering binary code to get the computer to boot. While certainly not as painstaking as manually flipping bits, these games written for UEFI systems hearken back to the days when accessing your computer was a touch more complicated than pressing a power button.

A couple weeks from now, on January 26, 2026, we’ll be launching the full version of our new gaming website, Mothership, which aims to analyze games specifically through the lens of gender and identity. Stepping into the shoes of another person or thing, inhabiting a body other than your own, is an inextricable part of the experience of playing a game. We here at Mothership — a queer and women-owned independent video game publication co-founded by Polygon veterans Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah — have always understood that this is what games are about.

Manor Lords and Terra Invicta publishers Hooded Horse are imposing a strict ban on generative AI assets in their games, with company co-founder Tim Bender describing it as an “ethics issue” and “a very frustrating thing to have to worry about”.

Happy 2026! It’s been way too long since I posted a new game review. (Has it seriously been 4-1/2 months?!) Life has been interfering with my gaming lately, and my list of games I want to review is only getting longer and more daunting. Then, StarRupture released 3 days ago!

Two video game outlets in Poland have confirmed that The Witcher 3 is getting new DLC, and have shared some details.

Today’s game is Max Payne. I continued my playthrough today with a friend who’s on call. I was just kind of peeking around with the camera when i noticed the writing on the wall behind Max (literally). I probably missed it my first playthrough because i was blind, but it’s kind of ironic that the writing was literally on the wall the entire game.

Steam adds support for branch-specific Workshop mod versions