Gamer Fridge

A month after Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees, cancelled multiple game projects, and closed The Initiative, Avalanche Studios says work on its 1970s-themed smuggling sim Contraband—which was being developed in partnership with Xbox—has been halted. “Over the past several years, Avalanche Studios Group and Xbox Game Studios Publishing have collaborated on Contraband,” Avalanche wrote. “Active…

Calling all jockeys, we’re off to the races! It’s the year of the horse, and what better way to celebrate than with Steam Horse Fest? It’s already bolted out of the gate, and you’ve got until February 23 to pick up a stableful of games about horses and other horse-adjacent animals at a nice little…

It’s no secret that Battlefield Studios has taken quite a few lessons learnt from past Battlefield games and used them to try and create a Battlefield 6 which is as close as possible to what players want. Decisions have been made to ditch 128-player matches from Battlefield 2042, and the devs have been listening to…

Now that Windows 10 is out and about, many consumers who “reserved” a spot in the rollout may be disappointed that their copy of the new OS wasn’t available on day one. According to Microsoft, the wait could range from days to weeks. The Windows 10 notification app that resides on the system tray will…

There is an alternative 2025 where you get the Nvidia RTX 5090 of your dreams. That’s a timeline where Nvidia has busted Apple’s grip on TSMC’s most advanced process nodes, managed to negotiate an unprecedented deal on silicon production, and worked some magic to deliver the same sort of generational rendering performance increases we’ve become…

Esoteric Ebb seemed like a game tailor-made for me, and that left me nervous. An irreverent, dialogue-focused RPG proudly announcing its Disco Elysium inspirations⁠—my mind jumped to all those soulslike games I’ve gotten my hopes up for that just don’t quite have the FromSoft magic. After trying the game’s second draft demo, I’m happy to…