Gamer Fridge

Back in our January 2024 launch impressions of Palworld, I wasn’t kind about its shameless design counterfeiting, calling its creatures “a surreal gallery of familiar eyes, limbs, and silhouettes” built from “the reassembled pieces of existing Pokémon, adding a color swap and a couple tweaked details to hide the Frankenstein stitching.”I understand now that I…

Like I’m sure many other PC gamers have done, I read our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review with a sense of inescapable inevitability and frustrated, profound disappointment. Here we are again, another previously celebrated game developer seeing its reputation tarnished by a flawed, middling game-as-a-service release that places grind and ongoing play/monetization right…

We just can’t get enough punishing fantasy horror action RPGs. After Elden Ring last year and Lies of P in September, and despite some early performance complaints and proximity to RPG juggernauts Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfied, Lords of the Fallen has already sold more than a million copies, according to its publisher. Lies of…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you know what that means: The 2024 Steam Winter Sale has begun. This is the big one—well, one of them, anyway—with deals galore on literally thousands of games, and plenty of Steam stuff to pick up including free stickers for browsing your Discovery Queue (nine of…

Dredge was one of 2023’s out-of-left field indie greats—we gave it an 89 in our Dredge review, then later bestowed it with Best Setting award for our Game of the Year shoutouts. It wears that mantle well from what I’ve seen as a genuinely brilliant bit of bathophobia–inducing atmospheric horror, in which you man a…

Opening arguments began on Tuesday in the case of Musk v. Altman, the Tesla CEO’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI for, in the attorney’s words, “preying on Musk’s humanitarian concern about the existential dangers posed by artificial intelligence” in what is “a textbook tale of altruism versus greed.” Musk is the good guy in…