Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?
Sign up here If your social media algorithms have clocked that you’re into video games, something strange will have happened in the past few weeks.
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- AI tools are making it easier to modify and recreate games, raising questions about piracy, copyright and how far the technology could disrupt the industry • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox?
- No, but I am very interested in where they came from.
- Would I download a mod that lets me play Wii Bowling inside a zombie shooter?
Your feed, like mine, will have been full of clips of streamers playing bizarre mashups of popular video games.
A flood of professional-looking fan-coded game mods that are mildly interesting to look at for 30 seconds, but ultimately inconsequential.
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