The Fridge

Taito’s Legendary Brick Breaker ‘Arkanoid’ Lands On Consoles This Week, Alongside An NES Shooter From Nichibutsu

‘Arkanoid’ & ‘MagMax’ are this week’s “Archives” releases. Taito’s 1986 brick-breaking arcade classic Arkanoid is coming to PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X|S later this week, on May 7th, 2026, as part of Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2. Designed by Akira Fujita and Hiroshi “ONIJUST” Tsujino, Arkanoid builds on the…

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Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets ‘two thumbs up from me’ for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is ‘clueless’

The legal fight between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has seen much internal documentation from the firm’s earliest years released to the public. One minor revelation has been the serious involvement of Gabe Newell from the start, who gave the company over $20 million and was the sole member of its “informal advisory…

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Poll: How Do You Pronounce These Pokémon?

22 Lickitung-twisters. After 30 years and well over 1000 Pokémon in the National Dex, coming up with snappy names for Pocket Monsters is tough. Add in all the languages the games are localised into, and potential issues around certain words and puns which don’t translate well, and it’s no wonder that people have different ways…

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