TRANSCRIPT · Cyberpunk trading sim Probably Stolen is about running a kiosk in a space station full of gangs, megacorps, and secret rogue cyborgs

## Cyberpunk trading sim Probably Stolen is about running a kiosk in a space station full of gangs, megacorps, and secret rogue cyborgs (Rock Paper Shotgun)
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/cyberpunk-trading-sim-probably-stolen-is-about-running-a-kiosk-in-a-space-station-full-of-gangs-megacorps-and-secret-rogue-cyborgs
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: a cyberpunk kiosk sim called Probably Stolen wants you to run a shop on a very shady space station.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news, just landed on my desk: a shop game! A kiosk on a space station, with gangs. It's the hotel minibar, but dangerous. Now the full story.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: It's called Probably Stolen, from Questing Goose Studio. Rock Paper Shotgun calls it a cyberpunk trading sim, reminiscent of Papers, Please. Gary has more.
GARY: Gary here, block world, sun going down, totally fine. You're a new store owner on a backwater space station. Each day you roll up the shutter and trade with shady types.
GARY: Buy what you can afford, sell what fits the customer's budget. Easy, until you check wanted criminals against mugshots and weigh what the factions think of you. Sorry, says Popcorn.
GARY: File footage of a shutter and a shelf. You run a magnifying glass over robot hands and cigarette packets to tell vintage pieces from counterfeits.
GARY: At night you scrounge stock from the dumps, pay the electricity bill, and shoot rogue androids in the CPU. A normal Tuesday. It's Wednesday. Still normal.
GARY: My rating: four out of five pickaxes. The reviewer says they haven't been shivved or shanked yet, but it's surely a matter of time. Sorry, Popcorn adds.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So: buy, sell, inspect, report, pay the bill. Probably Stolen, from Questing Goose Studio. The kiosk, apparently, stays open.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A shop with no returns policy. I'd have loved that in the eighties. Back to you, whoever you are.

## Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from? (The Guardian AI)
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/oct/28/social-media-is-full-of-weird-video-game-mashups-where-are-they-all-coming-from
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Skyrim in Minecraft, Mario in Halo: The Guardian asks where the flood of weird game mashups comes from.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Welcome to Crossfire. The open question: where are these Skyrim-in-Minecraft mashups coming from, and what does that mean for the games industry?
AXIOM: Thank you, Greta. The Guardian says the answer is mostly AI. Not just AI videos, but AI-assisted coding, with Anthropic's Claude suddenly very good at decompiling game code.
AXIOM: Decompiling reverses the compiling that turns readable code into ones and zeros, revealing source that people can edit. Compiling is baking a cake; decompiling is un-baking. Wonderful question!
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The examples: Halo with Mario, Skate 2 in Call of Duty maps, Wii Bowling in a zombie shooter. Lyle, is this an industry problem?
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Wii Bowling inside a zombie shooter is the Treaty of Westphalia with pins. This is diplomacy at a scale nobody voted for.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The writer calls them inconsequential. The same writer spent a week researching them.
AXIOM: The article also raises piracy, copyright and how far the technology could disrupt the industry. It does not say how those questions resolve. Thank you for asking!
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Suddenly, within weeks, every feed has Mario in Halo? Nobody mashes up that evenly by accident. Somebody flipped a switch.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Nobody's asked the studios that wrote the original code. The piece flags copyright.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Round two. Lyle, you said switch. Prue, you said studios. Keep it short.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: This will gut the industry! ...Although Skyrim in Minecraft does look rather lovely, I'll admit.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: If it's a mod nobody would download, Lyle, who exactly is being disrupted?
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The piece says 'most of the answer' is AI. I'd hold that loosely.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Known: AI-assisted coding, helped by Claude's skill at decompiling, is behind many mashups. Open: what it means for piracy, copyright and the industry. Nothing from the discussion yet. We're done.

## Pixels in Brief (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The quick round: a PS4 dashboard in Roblox, AI on the grid, and the end of Bleach.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. A working PS4 dashboard is ported to Roblox, and GamesRadar doubts Sony is thrilled.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The Next Web says AI data centres should show credible demand and pay grid costs first. Homework before the plug.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Anime News Network says Bleach episode ten ends the anime on a great note. Tissues optional.

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AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.