Gamer Fridge

The appearance of Minecraft on the big screen has unbalanced the humors of the world’s youths, whose ecstatic outbursts at screenings are showering audiences with popcorn and cries of “chicken jockey!” At least two incidents have even ended with police intervention. A chicken jockey is a baby zombie riding a chicken, a rare occurrence in…

Until the other day, what I knew about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was that: It’s a French RPG with some Persona-inspired flair It’s got turn-based combat with real-time mechanics It’s coming out in April Based on the screenshots of forlorn young adults, I also expected a melodramatic story about a quest to save the world,…

You wouldn’t know it by looking at Animalkind, a cozy and colorful town-builder where you play as a cute little corgi driving a mech, but it got its start in a different genre altogether. The game about building houses for a bunch of adorable forest animals was originally a hardcore survival game. I met with…

The Netflix boost is a phenomenon so predictable that it should qualify as legitimate economic theory. It follows a simple pattern: Netflix releases a videogame adaptation, and the people who watch it want an excuse to linger in that world, causing related game sales to spike shortly afterwards. We saw it when Henry Cavill’s Geralt…

The first “proper update” for everyone’s favorite drug-dealing simulator Schedule I is now available in a Steam beta branch, where it will stay for a day or two for testing before it goes into full release. The update comes as Schedule I faces potential trouble from Drug Dealer Simulator publisher Movie Games SA, which has…

The first “major patch” for Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set to arrive tomorrow, April 8, and along with the usual array of bug fixes and gameplay tweaks it will make a number of big changes including the ability to reset Mastery Nodes so you can experiment with different character builds, and even better (in my…