The Fridge

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says game prices ‘have resisted matching inflation’ because publishers have been pocketing the ‘cost savings’ from digital distribution

Wind blows, birds fly, and Tim Cain YouTubes. The Interplay, Troika, and Obsidian developer (and OG Fallout co-creator) is once again nattering on his YouTube channel (via GamesRadar), and his topic this time is the divide between physical and digital media. Cain strikes a pretty pro-digital-distribution tone at the video’s start. Being able to stick…

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Tired Of “The Usual North American Perspectives”, This New Book Aims To Offer A Global View Of Game History

“Mainstream conversations remain dominated by the same perspectives and biases”. I’ve said it in the past, but modern-day video game history has a serious problem – it’s too focused on what happened in North America and doesn’t offer a balanced view on the global story of gaming. Given the numerous authors and content creators from…

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YouTuber spends over $6,000 to make a solid aluminium Xbox like the 2000s prototype, and it ‘operates like any other Xbox because that’s exactly what it is’

The Xbox brand, from its name to its design language, has always felt to me like it was made up of a mix of early 2000s spikey hair and what people found cool in the 90s. Nothing quite exemplifies this more than the great big silver Xbox prototype shown off just before the release of…

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