Gamer Fridge

Grounded 2 was announced at the Xbox Games Showcase over the weekend, and it’s releasing into early access next month—July 29, to be specific. Early access can be a real boon for games, as it enables developers to iterate with (hopefully) large-scale feedback toward a complete, as-good-as-it-can-be final release, but there are risks involved too,…

The movie “A Minecraft Movie” (the movie specifically for Minecraft) has continued to haul in some absurd cash—hitting $150 million in its first opening weekend, and inspiring a wave of problematic popcorn-hurling behaviour as it takes the box office by storm. It’s shown no signs of slowing down—its worldwide haul is now at $552 million,…

Intel’s foundry business never seems far from the headlines these days, not least because various ex-executives continue to publicly debate whether it might be a good idea to split it from the rest of Intel entirely in the wake of well-publicised financial woes. Speaking at a technology conference yesterday, John Pitzer, Intel’s vice president of…

Motherboards aren’t usually the first component that comes to mind when I think of what really wows me in the visual department. But I’ll be damned if the ASRock B860 Steel Legend Wi-Fi doesn’t hit me square in the aesthetics cortex (right next to the amygdala), and I’ll be even more damned if I don’t…

Go big (capacity) or go home Now that it no longer requires taking out a second mortgage to fund a solid-state drive upgrade, maybe we’ll start seeing an influx of high capacity SSDs. Is that too much to ask? Not of Patriot Memory, which arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show with its new and capacious…

One of the earliest and most ambitious mods for Elden Ring, which revised and remixed its core systems to facilitate more tailored runs through The Lands Between, has just got a huge overhaul. Elden Ring: Reforged adds a vast array of new features like difficulty modes, runeforging, new combat mechanics like deflection and ducking, new…