The Fridge

Your joys will always be someone else’s junk

LINCOLN CARPENTER, NEWS WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Spent a lot of time meditating on cool robots. Online conversations about videogames have been strange lately. More so than usual, I mean. In pockets scattered around the internet, there’s been a pervasive fixation on the sense that some people, somewhere, might not love Crimson Desert—a…

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“We Kept You Waiting” – Yuzo Koshiro Confirms Namco × Capcom’s Soundtrack Is Making A (Partial) Comeback

“After about 20 years since the game’s release in 2005”. Renowned video game composer Yuzo Koshiro has confirmed that part of the soundtrack to Namco × Capcom is coming to streaming platforms. Released on PS2 in 2005, the game was developed by Monolith Soft and pulls together characters from Namco and Capcom titles. Alongside Koshiro,…

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The PS3 Emulator, RPCS3, Announces A Huge, New SPU “Breakthrough,” Set To Benefit All Games

Twisted Metal (2012) has already recorded “a 5-7% Average FPS improvement”. The developers behind RPCS3, the popular PlayStation 3 emulator, have just announced a major “breakthrough” in emulating the PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine processor, reportedly leading to optimisations across all games (h/t: Tom’s Hardware). Historically, the PS3’s Cell processor has famously created a lot of…

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