The Fridge

What if modern PC gaming were just a little more Nintendo? Kazeta, a Linux-based OS, aims to find out with plug ‘n’ play SD ‘carts’ and by going all in on retro simplicity

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy everything modern PC gaming has to offer—but there’s no use denying I am also a Nintendo girlie. I’m dating myself here, but the company got their hooks in me young with the Game Boy Color, and I’ve had an affectionate respect for cart-based gaming ever since. Enter an OS…

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Nvidia’s RTX 5070 is the most popular current-gen GPU in the latest Steam hardware survey but AMD’s RDNA 4 cards don’t even make the top 100

OK, there are some caveats here. Valve’s Steam hardware survey is prone to certain distortions, the particulars of which we’ll come to. But the latest figures for August 2025 are still intriguing, including Nvidia’s RTX 5070 taking top spot among current-gen GPU hardware while AMD’s RDNA 4 cards don’t appear. At all. That the RTX…

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Atari Boss Says “T-Shirts, Energy Drinks, Shoes And Headphones” Figure In Company’s Future

Atari 2600+ is also an “evergreen project”. Atari has just purchased a controlling stake in Swedish publisher Thunderful, which might lead you to assume the company is abandoning its ‘retro first’ approach for something a little more contemporary. However, speaking to Gamesindustry.biz, Atari CEO Wade Rosen made it clear that classic gaming is still very…

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Intel’s patent for ‘software defined super cores’ probably won’t make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core

In the world of CPUs, GPUs, and all things chip-based, patent applications are so frequent that there’s little point in paying attention to them. However, one filing from Intel has made its way into tech news headlines because it offers a clever way to improve a CPU’s performance-per-watt efficiency. It also suggests that Intel’s hybrid…

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Final Fantasy 14’s latest patch makes surprise nerf to an arduous 9-year-old dungeon grind, and I hope there’s more like it to come

Final Fantasy 14‘s patch 7.31 releases today—and while you can usually set your watch to these updates (we’ve known there’d be a new relic weapon step and a new cosmic exploration planet for a while), it’s always nice when Square actually does something surprising. Tucked away in the patch notes, Creative Studio 3 has majorly…

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