Six Days In Fallujah publisher Victura Games is changing its tone on the upcoming and controversial first-person shooter based on one of the most brutal battles in the Iraq War. The studio now says that the game is “inseparable from politics” because of how it depicts real-world events, something which Victura boss Peter Tamte shied away from originally when he mentioned in an earlier interview that Six Days in Fallujah was “not trying to make a political commentary” about the war.

This comes mere weeks after the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which many of you might have noticed, was rather political.

Death stranding is a mighty weird game, but the overall goal for players is to unite a fractured, post-apocalyptic America. In an interview with BCC, the game’s director Hideo Kojima revealed – in case it wasn’t blindingly obvious – that the game’s central theme of reuniting something that’s been fractured was a reaction to Trump and Brexit.

Yesterday, Twitter boss Jack Dorsey announced that the platform would be banning all political advertising on Twitter from November. It’s an interesting, curious but mostly welcome move in age where misinformation on social media is used to sway voters.

Making a game and then slyly using heavier themes to market said product means that Ubisoft can and should be criticised for their PR sleight of hand, because this is a company that knows all too well what will sell and how they’ll push it out so that all eyeballs will be focused on their product. Nobody knows this more than the Ubi-Boss himself, Yves Guillemot.

Ubisoft sent a mailer out with the subject line: "Come see what a real government shutdown looks like in the private beta." Woops!

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has expressed his delight with not having to wonder how Grand Theft Auto 6 would work in today's political climate.

When you’ve got the licenses to everything Tom Clancy, a brand that encompasses everything from Splinter Cell to The Division, it’s a kick in the teeth not to see the more extreme politics of today tackled in video game form.