I saw a video on spawnwave that talked today about what games people are enjoying in 2026 right now. And the different reactions of different social media/sites.

I personally am loving Wild Blue Skie s. Its just starfox. Thats what I want to play!
BALL x PIT is a whole lot of fun. I didn’t think it would be but it keeps getting better and better. I also liked FTL back in the day so I picked up Void War . Its like warhammer + FTL and its fantastic.

EDIT: You all are great! Keep them coming! So many games (video games and otherwise) in this list!

  • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
    87·
    14 hours ago

    Been playing the hell out of Hogwarts Legacy. WAY better then I ever imagined it would be and I’m not even a Harry Potter fan. In fact, I never saw a single movie.

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
            39·
            12 hours ago

            Ah okay, I never cared what the political talk is, as long as it does not affect the media I’m watching (or playing). She didn’t even work on the game Hogwarts Legacy, and the game is not even about Harry Potter himself.

            • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
              91·
              11 hours ago

              She still gets money for it. And then uses that money to fund anti-trans TERF stuff. Depending on your ideals there may be some cognitive dissonance there is all.

              • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
                34·
                10 hours ago

                Assuming you are right, she is not the only one who gets money. The developers were a full team creating the game, the publisher is not her. You can ignore the entire world and focus only on her, or you are fair and focus on everyone involved.

                • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
                  71·
                  10 hours ago

                  I encourage you to read the Wikipedia article I linked. She is highly politically active and was a pivotal influence on directly harming trans rights. She is also highly litigative and will sue anybody that is against her.

                  Here’s one quote from the article:

                  In June 2020 the Equality Act was blocked in the United States Senate. The Republican Party senator James Lankford cited Rowling’s essay as part of his reasoning for opposing the bill.

                  She also doesn’t believe asexual people exist, she believes that women are defined by their biological birth sex, she backed legislation to make it more difficult to change genders, she deliberately misgenders people, and she created her own sexual assault crisis shelter specifically to exclude trans women from it.

                  I think it was particularly interesting that the actors for Ron, Hermione, and Harry, all opposed Rowling’s opinions.

                  Supporting the brand is supporting her, full stop. Supporting her is supporting anti-trans politics. You can choose to ignore that, that’s entirely up to you; but it is a choice nonetheless.

                  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                    1·
                    4 hours ago

                    This person clearly just wants to bury their head in the sand.

                    Until the fascists come for them, or someone they care about. Then suddenly they’ll start “caring about the political talk.”

                    Hopefully it won’t be too late at that point

                  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    14·
                    10 hours ago

                    I do not support anti-trans politics, in fact I don’t care. She is not the only person in the world, so I’m not pirating a videogame that a publisher and team of developer has spent millions and ton of time into a project, where she has no influence on the game. You can choose to ignore everything else and focus on this single person only.

                    An analogy to a different topic, but illustrating the issue I have with your logic: With your logic, I have to stop using Linux, because Microsoft has WSL integrated into Windows. Plus Microsoft is using Linux too. Anyone supporting Linux supports Microsoft too.

        • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
          53·
          13 hours ago

          And PSN gives JKR a royalty… Still, hard to pirate on PS hardware you don’t really own.

          • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
            32·
            12 hours ago

            So…. I didn’t pay for it. And I own my PS5. And frankly, I don’t really care that royalties are made. It’s a good game and the developers deserve their cut.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      32·
      13 hours ago

      I had Hogwarts Legacy on my radar for a long time, but didn’t want play it until I watched the films. So one day I sat down and watched all 10 main films (I think its 10 parts, right?) and they are way more amazing that I thought to be! To a degree that I am a little bit small fan of Harry Potter now. :-) Great films I highly recommend watching it, it was a mistake not watching the films back then.

      As for the game, I then purchased it and tried out. It’s a nice game and I need to go back to it. Stopped playing because I had so much to play and put it back for a while (then forgot about it).