World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: 'We were gonna lose big, like real big'
June 10, 2026
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World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: ‘We were gonna lose big, like real big’

The Fridge016 mins

If there’s one thing that the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling was known for in the 1990s, it was wasting absolutely colossal amounts of billionaire Ted Turner’s cash. You could say that the media mogul could afford it, but WCW’s spendthrift ways were because it was always something of a vanity project: Turner made his name…

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Embark busts 9 myths about Arc Raiders’ aggression-based matchmaking, and says defending yourself is no longer a hostile action

The Fridge08 mins

Are PvE-only lobbies a thing in Arc Raiders? Will one measly kill mark me as a hostile player in future matches? These are questions Embark tackles head-on in a new matchmaking-focused blog post. This is by far the most the developer has spoken in detail about its unique aggression-based matchmaking system since we first learned…

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With a peak player count of 14.2 million, 99 Nights in the Forest has an audience other multiplayer games would kill for: ‘To find these behemoth playerbases you need to be on a platform like Roblox’

The Fridge012 mins

When I was a kid I might get a videogame for Christmas and another for my birthday, but in between it was free games that filled my time. First shareware, then Flash games. If you were a kid after 2006 though, the free games that defined your childhood probably involved Roblox. In 2025, players spent…

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