Gamer Fridge

The situation in the US right now is not great, particularly for non-citizens. A promised crackdown on so-called “illegal immigrants” by US president Donald Trump has become a violent free-for-all resulting in multiple killings that the government and security forces have insisted were justified, despite sometimes ample evidence to the contrary. Some countries over the…

The organizers of GDC have released its 2026 State of the Game Industry Report, detailing the results of its annual self-reported survey of games industry professionals. The data provided by over 2,300 respondents offered a grim image of industry layoffs, as 28% of surveyed games industry workers reported that they had been laid off in…

Ubisoft is teasing a new Rainbow Six Siege operator that, frankly, I’m having trouble accepting is real. If this 15-second video of Sam Fisher on a Codec call with his stealth franchise rival is to be taken at face value, Solid Snake is coming to Siege. “Our window is closing. We only get one shot…

There’s a new version of Final Fantasy 7 coming to Steam to take the place of the 2013 release, and everyone who owns the original can have it for free—and even better, they’ll continue to have access to the old edition, too. You might be curious what’s new in this new version, or when it…

Mighty No. 9 was a big deal when it kicked off on Kickstarter in 2013. A Mega Man-like sidescroller headed up by original Mega Man veteran Keifi Inafune—can’t miss, right? But it did miss, and rather badly. Multiple delays led up to a game that wasn’t great, late-arriving physical editions were also disappointing, and by…

As it nears its 24th birthday, Final Fantasy 11 is still quietly chugging along. And while FF14’s older, weirder MMO sibling has settled into a comfortable rhythm of incremental maintenance updates, its more than two decades of layered expansions and legacy systems still manage to produce some fascinating weirdness. Sometimes that means needing to navigate…