Gamer Fridge

Project Warlock was a thoroughly entertaining FPS throwback which caught the bloody wave of the boomer shooter revival right at its height in 2018. As such, I was excited by the prospect of a sequel, and one was duly revealed at the PC Gaming Show in 2021. Then, years passed. My eyesight deteriorated, flecks of…

Hardware capability is one thing, but how a bit of kit looks is just as important to me. Unfortunately, that means I tend to burn my retinas on an awful lot of very ugly GPUs. Still, every now and then I’ll happen across something I’d be happy to give pride of place in my rig—and…

AMD’s latest earnings call has plenty of juicy tidbits to report, but something caught our eye very early on in the opening remarks. According to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, “Valve is on track to begin shipping its AMD-powered Steam Machine early this year.” Previously, Valve had stated that the new Steam Machine would release at…

What is it about the Modern Warfare games producing the most cursed-looking movement glitches, lately? There was the horrifying “G walk” in MW2, which looked like your character was breaking out an all fours to tear into someone’s jugular, and this ‘Superman‘ glitch from the same year that made you look like a Hunter from…

There’s something about over-the-air broadcasting. Tuning a radio has a way of making the world feel vast: picking up the clipped tones of a Beijing newscaster through waves of static, dialling into the current top 40 in Amman—these are experiences that make you appreciate how enormous and varied the planet is, like scooping a thimble…

As our Harvey Randall wrote, we’re all still playing Baldur’s Gate 3 more than a year after its release because there’s so much to find in it. Gale can write a sad resignation letter if you ignore him long enough, and there’s a game over just for people who go out of their way to…

Even in the year 2025 where it’s relatively commonplace, VR still feels like a futuristic progression for gaming. VR headsets are becoming fairly popular, but the dream of putting on a headset and seamlessly teleporting to an immerse new world, while my lounge room fades away, is yet to be realised. While modern headsets have…