Gamer Fridge

Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited epic adventure film The Odyssey opens this weekend, and I won’t be there to see it because the IMAX theater near me is already sold out except for those really terrible seats way down in front. Which is fine, really: at a running time of two hours and 53 minutes, I’m much…

I’ve been around long enough that I can remember a time when we didn’t know Steam sale dates in advance. We had a rough window, based on the timing of previous sales, but the absence of anything precise meant that all of us poor news guys had to sit around mashing F5 on Steam every…

The original Witcher, released in 2007, was a fairly linear affair, with individual maps to explore but overall progression, from point to point to point, relatively tied down. The remake, in development at Fool’s Theory, is taking a very different approach: It’s a “modern reimagining” of that game as an “open-world RPG.” Simple enough—just make…

Need to know What is it? A nocturnal farm sim in a town of supernaturalsExpect to pay: $35/£30Developer: Little ChickenPublisher: Xseed Games, Marvelous EuropeReviewed on: Intel Core Ultra 7 265, RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB RAMMultiplayer: NoSteam Deck: VerifiedLink: Official site “A nocturnal farm sim where you’re a vampire” is one of the better hooks I’ve…

GOG is very good at two things: Bringing old games to modern PCs, and telling everyone that its games are DRM-free so you can do whatever you want with them. So I was not terribly shocked when GOG weighed in on Sony’s decision to stop producing game discs in 2028 with a little note reminding…

Despite the surge in Overwatch players since Blizzard’s decision to drop the 2 and take the hero shooter in a new direction earlier this year, the noise around its MOBA-inspired Stadium mode has died down. And so has its popularity, which has prompted a halt in development plans according to a new blog post by…

What am I even on this planet for, really? To play videogames? To partake in an unhealthy diet? To make awkward sexual passes at the consenting partner of my choice? All of the above. I might as well dig my own grave and climb into it because there’s a robot on the brink of accomplishing…