Gamer Fridge

After nearly two years of waiting and a leak that blew the surprise, Bethesda has finally made it official: Oblivion Remastered is real, and will be formally unveiled on April 22. There’s an awful lot of excitement for this one, but I think the hoopla is leading us to overlook one important but awkward question….

I’m a comic book nut, but I stay away from Marvel Rivals to keep my blood pressure in check. I do love the radical, supremely over-the-top character designs that NetEase landed on for Marvel’s coterie of costumed heroes, though. You might be surprised to learn that the game used to be even more stylized—so much…

Nearly a week after a major hack forced it offline, the notorious imageboard 4chan remains inaccessible, and there’s a growing feeling that it’s going to stay that way—and that maybe it’s not so bad. Founded in 2003, 4chan is—or was—something of a waypoint for a particular part of online subculture: Basic, unrefined, unmoderated, and almost…

We know a lot more about Bungie’s Marathon reboot now than we did a week ago. We learned that it’s a hero-based extraction shooter with abilities, economy, and a handful of maps in the vein of Escape From Tarkov. We know it’s got weapon mods that should tickle the brains of Destiny buildcrafters, and Bungie…

Overwatch 2 Stadium is one of the biggest shakeups for the game since the sequel launched in 2023. Hero perks in standard Quickplay and Competitive let you tweak hero abilities through a handful of upgrade choices. Stadium, a new mode separate from standard play, lets you completely change how abilities function and even adds new…

We’re in a golden age of ARPGs if you haven’t been paying attention, but that doesn’t make them any easier to balance. Since its launch, Diablo 4 has been criticized for its awfully gentle take on the Burning Hells; and though smacking loot pinatas until they stop moving doesn’t have to be all that hard…

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Sometimes I buy obscure old games for what I like to imagine are grand, noble reasons. A niche developer makes an unusual puzzley twist on the RPG,…

Even in early access, RuneScape: Dragonwilds has a pretty large map so it can take a while to choose the best base location in Dragonwilds. As in all survival crafting games, living close to the resources you’re collecting most is a big consideration—water and food in particular for Dragonwilds. Death is common in Dragonwilds—not only…

In a new vlog on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG designer and Fallout 1 lead Tim Cain shared one of those great “told you so” anecdotes of gaming history: Interplay’s marketing department apparently hounded Cain to rebuild Fallout to be more like Diablo, rather than the turn-based RPG we got. A viewer asked Cain what…