The Fridge

Yes, Stardew Valley’s newly announced update will probably slow down work on Haunted Chocolatier, ‘but not as much as you might think’

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who said in April that he’s “committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I’m done with Haunted Chocolatier,” announced last week that he’s working on Stardew Valley again. Well, hey, these things happen. But the good news (aside from more Stardew Valley) is that while Haunted Chocolatier might take…

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Xbox and 5-hour Energy Team Up to Launch Limited-Edition Purpleberry Punch for The Outer Worlds 2

Category: Announcements September 3, 2025 Xbox and 5-hour Energy Team Up to Launch Limited-Edition Purpleberry Punch for The Outer Worlds 2 Marcos WaltenbergGM, Xbox Partnerships In a galactic collaboration that’s sure to energize fans, Xbox and Obsidian Entertainment have partnered with 5-hour Energy to celebrate the upcoming release of The Outer Worlds 2 with a limited-edition flavor inspired…

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Ex-Skyblivion dev says it ‘was never in the state that the videos would show off’ as they claim it’s crunching on a ‘pointless and unachievable’ 2025 release goal—but remaining devs seem optimistic

Mega-mod Skyblivion—the one that remakes The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the swish new Skyrim: Special Edition engine—is set to release in a matter of months after over a decade of work. The news around this has been, on the whole, quite positive. The trailers look good, its dungeons are meant to be better, and…

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Grovemade desk review

I didn’t expect the sparkle to last quite so long with this desk, but it has. I’m not talking about a physical sparkle, of course, I mean that ‘freshly impressed with new furniture’ feeling. I’ve been using the Grovemade standing desk system—AKA the Grovemade desk—for a few months now, and I’m still a little in…

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A last-ditch attempt to save the Perfect Dark reboot fell through because Take-Two and Microsoft couldn’t agree who’d own the IP

The industry is still feeling the aftershocks of Microsoft’s decision to lay off thousands of staff in July, which came alongside multiple game cancellations. One of the most high-profile was the Perfect Dark reboot being co-developed by The Initiative, a studio that has now been closed, and Crystal Dynamics. It turns out that, per a…

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This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors

Once the hotbed of chip development and manufacturing, Japan has been surpassed by the likes of Taiwan, South Korea, and the US. In a move to bring it back to the forefront of semiconductors, a new consortium has been launched, comprising 27 different firms, that will focus entirely on developing a key component in the…

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