Gamer Fridge

There’s a whole part of Path of Exile that goes unseen by anyone who has never played it. Alongside the monster smashing and loot collecting is a whole item economy that drives players to grind for hours, not for upgrades, but for the cash to buy the upgrades from other people. Until a recent update…

Deus Ex is just so damn great. I know we say that a lot around here, but you can never say it enough, so I’m saying it again: Deus Ex is great. One of the greatest ever. And one of the most distinctive elements of that greatness is its soundtrack, which like the game itself…

Amid the doom and gloom in the games industry right now—the mass layoffs, the studio closures, the declarations that TikTok is winning the attention war—there are still little studios plugging away at good, niche games and making it work. Mohawk Games, founded in 2013 by ex-Firaxis developers, is one of them. Mohawk is about to…

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Videogames: they’re fake. So they say, but occasionally artists do such a bang-up job that…

PUBG: Blindspot showed real promise when we took it for a spin in 2024: PC Gamer’s Jake Tucker said that “with some polish to the controls and a proper onboarding experience, this could be a genuinely fun, highly accessible tac shooter.” But it failed to make much of a splash when it launched into early…

Despite being the gateway TTRPG of choice, one of the biggest hurdles in Dungeons & Dragons has always come right at the start: making your character. For someone unfamiliar with the system, that blank character sheet can seem like a maths exam they haven’t revised for—and though recent editions have significantly streamlined the process, it…