The Fridge

Almost 20 years since it hit Steam, Garry’s Mod finally addresses ‘lackluster support for weapons used by NPCs’ and gives Dr Kleiner his gun license

I’m always taken by surprise when Garry’s Mod receives a new update. Since it came out when I was still a teenager, I just assume it’s ancient history. Yet in reality, Facepunch’s anarchic toolbox remains very much a going concern. With over 22,000 players in the last 24 hours, Garry’s Mod is the 62nd most…

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Slot machine roguelike CloverPit sells 1 million copies, and its developer celebrates the payout by adding its ‘most requested feature yet’

Spooky gambling roguelike CloverPit has hit the jackpot for developer Panik Arcade, selling a million copies since it was released at the end of September. Seems a lot of people can’t resist the allure of playing with a cursed one-armed bandit in a dingy basement that’s possibly also in hell. “Thank you so much for…

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Poll: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Inazuma Eleven

Footpoll. We are back with this week’s clash of the covers! Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl. It was a trio of designs for the NES’ Dragon Power that went head-to-head (to-head) last time, though neither the European nor North American artwork stood a chance against the eye-catching Japanese variant, which gobbled up…

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Escape from Tarkov fans are scrutinizing alleged sympathies for the Russian invasion of Ukraine within Battlestate Games: ‘If I could refund it I would’

Today, a thread on resetera from user RedbullCola titled “Escape from Tarkov directly funds the Invasion of Ukraine through partnerships” linked to a pair of imgur galleries that has been traded around on social media before. The two galleries show a series of images that draw an apparent close relationship between Battlestate Games, particularly COO…

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Former id Software artist argues performance and optimization is ‘as much of an art problem’ as a tech one: ‘Killzone 2 looks incredible today. FEAR looks incredible today’

I recently sat down with Defect game director and former id Software artist, Emanuel Palalic, as well as composer Mick Gordon to discuss the upcoming cyberpunk FPS. One topic I wanted to get their thoughts on was optimization: Defect looks like a heavy game, but has surprisingly lenient specs⁠—RTX 2060 minimum⁠—and no mandatory ray tracing…

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