Gamer Fridge

Sometimes all you can do is take a struggling project back to the drawing board. Unfortunately for Dead Island 2 publisher Deep Silver, that’s a decision that meant adding eight years and millions of dollars to the sequel’s development time (via GamesIndustry.biz). In a talk at British game dev conference Develop:Brighton, former Deep Silver head…

Inzoi has been in the hands of life sim sickos for a few days now, and while there are pockets of criticism here and there—build mode being too obtuse and a lack of gameplay depth being two major callouts—it seems that folks are having a real good time playing something that isn’t The Sims for…

In the trailer tornado of Gamescom 2025, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight stood out to me, and not just because it had Matt Berry as the voice of Lego Bane. The combat looks like it’s got the counter mechanics of the Arkham games, and the traversal has Arkham-style grappling and gliding. Since neither…

A lot of the time we can boil things down to the basics when it comes to PC hardware. In general: more transistors, more power; more power, more heat; you get the idea. And today I’m reminded of another basic rule of hardware design: more surface area means better heat dissipation. Georgia Tech has just…