Gamer Fridge

Commodity fetishism is the Marxist term for the process by which relationships between people become relationships between commodities. That is to say, the long narrative of the box of cereal, the pair of shoes, the smartphone you pick up from a store shelf is mystified by the scale and complexity of capitalism. You don’t see…

In the wake of tariffs set by the Trump administration and new factories in the US from world-leading chip foundry TSMC, Nvidia’s CEO says it aims to produce “several hundred billion” dollars worth of electronics in the US in the next four years. That means there’s a growing chance your next GPU will be made…

Nine years ago I heard the hosts of videogame podcast Daft Souls describe a perfect game that didn’t exist, a management RPG that was a kind of Stardew Valley but for restaurants where you’d hire staff and cook meals and choose the furniture and maybe romance someone on the side. It’s taken almost a decade…

As much as I like getting friends sat down around a table, I breathed a deep sigh of relief when it was announced that tactical dungeon crawler Gloomhaven was coming to PC, due to the tabletop version being a terrifyingly huge (and expensive) obelisk full of smaller boxes, each containing innumerable smaller, easily lost pieces….

If you’re anything like me, you’ve laughed yourself sick at the various attempts robots have made to enter the arena of human sports. The World Humanoid Robot Games was, well, something of a disaster, and the Terminator-like uprising seems to be a long way away. It was only a matter of time until one became…