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GMTK Digest (November 2025)

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Nov 28, 2025
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Hello GMTK backers! Here is your Digest for November.

This month was actually a little light on new releases - the biggest new games were COD BLOPS 7 and Kirby Air Riders. So I’ve picked some different, but still recent, titles for the new releases section.

Hope you’re doing well and keeping warm and cozy in these winter months. Chat soon!

New Releases

Read - Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7’s Awful AI Use Is A Watershed Moment - “Without question, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the most egregious use of AI I’ve seen in a mainstream game”.

Watch (41 mins) - Silent Hill 𝑓 & Women as Suffering Machines - “Silent Hill f is the story of women as machines for suffering, of women as goddesses and doormats, and the men who tread upon them”.

Watch (35 mins) - What Is Silent Hill f REALLY About? - “It’s a horror game about the curses we carry in our blood and how we kill them when we transition between the past and future”.

Read - Hades 2’s Story Mistakes Repetition For Revelation - “Hades II Isn’t A Story—It’s Maintenance”.

Behind the Headlines

Watch (19 mins) - The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6 - “Rockstar claims these firings were due to “gross misconduct”, but the workers have another two words they prefer to use instead: “union busting”.

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