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Trump announces new 100% China tariff along with export controls on ‘any and all critical software’ over rare earth spat, as Chinese gov says it doesn’t want a trade war but is ‘not afraid of one’

The Fridge7 months ago05 mins

US president Donald Trump announced a new 100% tariff on Chinese goods late last week, “over and above any tariff they are currently paying”, alongside new export controls on “any and all critical software”. The new restrictions come in the wake of rare earth export controls announced by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce earlier in…

One Of The Strangest PS1 Games Just Got An English Fan Translation

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Screaming Mad George’s ‘ParanoiaScape’ is now available in English. The prolific fan translator AeonGenesis has returned with another patch, allowing you to play an obscure piece of Japanese video game history. This time around, it’s the turn of the 1998 PS1 title ParanoiaScape, a strange horror-themed pinball game from the developer Mathilda and the mind…

Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting Its Very Own Switch 2 Fighter Next Year

The Fridge7 months ago01 mins

Appa Cut. Well here’s something that we weren’t expecting. Fresh out of New York Comic Con 2025, we got our first peek at Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game (working title), an upcoming one-on-one fighter heading to Switch 2 in Summer 2026. We don’t know all that much about what this one will have in store…

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro 8K PC review

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With each iteration, Razer seems to take its Wolverine gaming controller to new heights. The V2 Pro was a step up over the original, while the V3 Pro repeated the trick, ending up as one of the best PC controllers money can buy. Now Razer has found a way to improve on near-perfection with the…

Takashi Iizuka Explains Why Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Was Delayed On Switch 2

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It’s pretty much why you think. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is out now on the Switch, but with sub-optimal performance, many fans are eagerly awaiting its eventual release on the Switch 2. In a new interview with Traxion, series producer Takashi Iizuka explained why the game needed more time before launching on the Switch 2, and…

Ninja Gaiden 4 directors say a ‘sense of fairness’ is vital for difficult games: ‘If the player gets killed unreasonably, it’s hard for them to reflect and think about what they could’ve done’

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Ninja Gaiden 4 will be arriving this month—and while I’m not as experienced with the series as, say, fellow PCG writer Wes Fenlon, I am downright curious to give it a proper try. The earlier Gaiden games were a smidge before my time, but the older I get, the thirstier I am for a challenge—and…

ASRock Phantom Gaming X870 Nova WiFi review

The Fridge7 months ago018 mins

For more than 20 years, ASRock has been churning out motherboards for just about every possible PC user and scenario. They were all very barebones and functional, though, and it wasn’t until 2010 that it specifically targeted the gaming sector, with a collaboration with esports player Fatal1ty. Fast forward to 2019, and ASRock broadened its…

New Emulator Ymir Now Boasts Over 90% Compatibility With The Sega Saturn’s Library

The Fridge7 months ago02 mins

Thanks to a recent v0.2.0 update. You may remember back in May that we told you about a new Sega Saturn emulator on the block called Ymir from StrikerX3, which was looking extremely promising. Well, since then, a new update has been dropped for the emulator (update v0.2.0) just yesterday, with this brand-new release reportedly…

UK Charts: Mario Galaxy Loses Steam As Battlefield Blasts Onto The Scene

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One Battle(field) after another. We’ve got our latest look at the UK physical charts and, unusually, there’s no Nintendo presence on the podium this week. Battlefield 6 has arrived on the scene with a bang, claiming the top spot in its debut week and pushing last week’s champ, Ghost of Yotei, down into third. EA…

Notorious Group ‘Crimson Collective’ Claims To Have Hacked Nintendo

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Though its legitimacy is unproven. Nintendo is known to be extremely litigious when it comes to protecting its intellectual property, but the company may have quite the battle on its hands if recent claims are proven to be legitimate. Hacking group Crimson Collective has claimed to have breached Nintendo in what may be one of…

How a trio of Canadian modders stumbled into making an official Die Hard game: ‘I’ve had projects disappear that had 10 times the promise that this did’

Can you identify 10 games I’ve turned into pixelated messes?

Gaussian Splatting is my new favourite thing, so I hassled an ex-Epic artist to tell me everything he knows about the low-cost ‘photo-real’ rendering technique

Review: SuperStation One – This $210 FPGA PlayStation Puts Sony’s PS Classic To Shame

Europa Universalis 5’s ‘biggest update yet’ expands the Balkans, overhauls the economy, and fixes more than 2,000 bugs

Guide: All Delisted Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 Games Missing From The eShop

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Trump announces new 100% China tariff along with export controls on ‘any and all critical software’ over rare earth spat, as Chinese gov says it doesn’t want a trade war but is ‘not afraid of one’

One Of The Strangest PS1 Games Just Got An English Fan Translation

Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting Its Very Own Switch 2 Fighter Next Year

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro 8K PC review

Takashi Iizuka Explains Why Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Was Delayed On Switch 2

Ninja Gaiden 4 directors say a ‘sense of fairness’ is vital for difficult games: ‘If the player gets killed unreasonably, it’s hard for them to reflect and think about what they could’ve done’

ASRock Phantom Gaming X870 Nova WiFi review

New Emulator Ymir Now Boasts Over 90% Compatibility With The Sega Saturn’s Library

UK Charts: Mario Galaxy Loses Steam As Battlefield Blasts Onto The Scene

Notorious Group ‘Crimson Collective’ Claims To Have Hacked Nintendo