Gamer Fridge

Giving up freedoms and privacy for a mirage of promised safety is very 1990s-coded. So, with this in mind, it seems like an apt moment to talk about Ricochet’s continued struggles with the 1991 period piece Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Players have a pretty rocky relationship with Activision’s anticheat software—mostly thanks to its…

Ubisoft’s long-awaited pirate adventure Skull and Bones is out today, and if you’re curious but put off by the unexpectedly steep price tag, I have good news: An eight-hour trial version is available, so you can see what it’s all about without paying a penny. I initially expected Skull and Bones to come in with…

Samson, the open-world crime brawler being developed by Liquid Swords, looks to me like a Grand Theft Auto game leavened with a healthy dose of Condemned: Criminal Origins. It’s a much smaller-scale project than (relatively) recent GTA games, of course—because what isn’t?—but a tale of a low-level mook making his way in a city filled…

When I was a young warthog, trying and failing to touch type with my wee hoofs at the family computer, I had a choice of two audio output devices—some relatively decent speakers or a headset that wouldn’t look out of place in a call centre. As a teen growing up during the advent of both…

Every cozy gamer’s got one: that one little indie game that you fall in love with at first sight and immediately decide to not shut up about because you believe not nearly enough people have discovered it yet. I found my new darling in this week’s Steam Next Fest: an adorable sandbox crafting game full…

Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: Sega / Hyte) Image 2 of 5 (Image credit: Hyte / Sega) Image 3 of 5 (Image credit: Hyte / Sega) Image 4 of 5 (Image credit: Hyte / Sega) Image 5 of 5 (Image credit: Hyte / Sega) PC case and accessory manufacturer Hyte ran a limited run…