Gamer Fridge

World of Warcraft: Midnight has had some trouble with its class balancing—some of this is fair enough, given Blizzard completely redesigned the game’s specialisations (there’s close to 40 of them) to better suit a world without UI mods. This had, uh, some consequences. Consequences like, for instance, five bears rocking up to your dungeon and…

Education technology company Instructure has “reached an agreement” with the hacker group that breached its systems for a second time earlier this month. Most recently, hacker group ShinyHunters had exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of data from the company’s cloud-based learning management system Canvas. This breach potentially exposed the names, email addresses, and private messages of…

These days, I’m firmly on the System Shock side of the System Shock/BioShock division that exists almost exclusively in my head, but I’ll give Rapture this: it was goddamn stunning when I first took that bathysphere jaunt back in 2007. The barnacled art deco was a heck of a look, and it still is today….

I am absolutely in love with Outbound as a concept. Driving around in a cosy little camper van, decking it out with all kinds of decor and doo-dads as I scrounge around for resources, blueprints, and collectibles in order to build my own sustainable, portable empire. In execution, though? Eh. It’s a real bummer, because…

Jonathan Chey, the Irrational co-founder with credits that go all the way back to the original Thief, has been thinking about BioShock again—where he served as the director of development. BioShock might be deep in his past, but at his studio Blue Manchu he’s continued to explore one of PC Gamer’s favourite genres: the glorious…

Judas, the next game from Bioshock lead Ken Levine, is going to have a lot of branching content in it—if you’ve been following along with its development, you’ve probably heard the phrase “narrative legos” more times than you can count on one infusion-enhanced hand. Which is a bit of a departure, given Levine’s prior work—Bioshock…