Gamer Fridge

While they’ve been a terror for countless fledgling fortbuilders, goblin sieges in Dwarf Fortress become predictably trivial once you’ve got a good amount of mountainhome management under your belt. That’s about to change: On November 3, Dwarf Fortress gets its awaited Siege update, and a lot of dwarves are going to be a lot less…

Well, here’s a twist. Instead of making a movie based on a blockbuster game like Minecraft or Super Mario Bros, someone made one based on a $4 walking simulator you can finish in about 25 minutes. And just based on the trailer, it looks a lot more faithful to the source material than most game…

All signs pointed to 2025 being a banner year for Sims players. After decades with only one series to choose from for our dollhouse-core fantasies, two new competitors—Inzoi and Paralives—set launch dates for this year. Meanwhile The Sims 4 publicly buckled down on bug fixes for its DLC-crammed game. But Inzoi didn’t deliver the adrenaline…

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is releasing at the end of the month, January 31—and as someone with a vested interest in the first game, I’m downright excited. The series’ creator, Gareth Damian Martin, has found a way to bring the vibes of a smaller-scale indie TTRPG to a videogame not once, but twice now….

In late September, news broke about one of the most amoral cyberattacks you’ll ever hear of. A group calling itself Radiant hacked a software provider called Famly and used this to access data from a UK-based nursery chain, Kido, then began posting information and pictures of literal toddlers on a dark web site. It demanded…

I’ve always got my eyes peeled for interesting upcoming city builders, and the more ambitious the better. But sometimes a game comes along that feels maybe… a little too ambitious? I’m talking about The Bustling World, a game set in ancient China that wants to be a whole lot of different kinds of game all…