Gamer Fridge

MMOs tend to function, more or less, as enormous mechanisms for competition. PvP, being the first to a particular raid, pulling off troubling works of deception in EVE Online—this is what I associate with the phrase ‘massively multiplayer’. But sometimes, the stars align and players come together to do something truly nice for each other….

Less than a week after Frostpunk 2 won Best Sim/Strategy Game award at The Game Awards, developer 11 bit studios has ended development on a game known internally as Project 8, and laid off a number of employees. Project 8 had been in development since 2018, according to a statement released on December 17 (via…

It’s no lie that the gaming industry in recent years has been crushing. You can do a good job, a bad job, a medium job—it doesn’t matter, the sword of Damocles can plunge at any moment. I won’t go into my list of examples, partially because I’ve shared them before, but also because I’ve got…

This week President Donald Trump announced that his long-term plan to put tariffs on non-American-made goods would go into effect, and Nvidia, a company headquartered in America but whose products are mostly manufactured out of Taiwan, has already taken a hit in its stock price. The price fell 9% on Monday night and 12% over…

Slay the Spire 2 is out now in early access, and once you drop some cash on it, it will probably be the last time you need to spend any money on the game. That’s because developer Mega Crit is no friend to microtransactions. “We’re microtransaction haters,” Casey Yano, co-founder of Mega Crit, told Destructoid…