Gamer Fridge

When the Greybeards invite you to High Hrothgar in Skyrim, you have to climb a mountain to reach them. There’s a messenger called Klimmek waiting in the village of Ivarstead at the bottom to warn you what an arduous journey this is going to be. To get to the top of the Throat of the…

A new kind of Steam problem has emerged: Games keep missing their release dates because Valve can’t keep up with approving them. Several frustrated indie devs have publicly posted about the limbo status of their finished games in the past week—including the developers of Food Devils, Wheel Make It, and Cubic Earth—saying that their applications…

Saying that it believes “schools should have control over AI in their classrooms,” Google announced today that it will turn off access to its AI tools for K-12 student accounts. But there’s a catch: Along with those AI tools, it will also disable Google search functionality. In a blog post entitled “Designing responsible AI for…

A new report from Bloomberg says Dishonored developer Arkane might not be as doomed as it appeared last month, as multiple companies have made offers to acquire the studio. Citing “people familiar with the negotiations,” the Bloomberg report says Ubisoft is among Arkane’s suitors, as are at least two other unnamed gaming companies. Xbox has…

It’s been a good few months for Remedy Entertainment. In its latest financial results, the Finnish game developer announced that its third quarter revenue had more than tripled to €39.6 million ($44.3 million) from the €12.2 million ($13.7 million) it made during the same quarter last year. That spike in income is all thanks to…