Gamer Fridge

Perhaps to our collective detriment, guns in games don’t feel as threatening as you’d otherwise expect from implements capable of firing hundreds of lethal projectiles per minute. In a medium where regenerating health, respawn mechanics, and multiplayer balance expectations can turn fully automatic fire into a minor inconvenience, a firearm can signal character archetype, combat…

As a certified arachnophobe, it pains me how many games insist on including a creature that absolutely should not have that many legs. Thankfully, a handful of games have started to implement an arachnophobia mode over the years. You’ve got Grounded’s shiny round blobs, Kill it with Fire’s cartoonish balled-up arachnids and Webbed’s decision to…

Sometimes you don’t want to go too hard, you just want a nice little game where you transform a million hexagons of barren oblate spheroid into a lush new home for humankind with an atmosphere, plants, and animals. Is that too much to ask? It’s not, it turns out, because after a couple years in…

Among the shocking variety of roguelikes, deckbuilders, tower defenses, and deckbuilding roguelike tower defenses released in past years, recent release Heretic’s Fork stands out for me because the menu screen has the aesthetics of like a prototype of Windows 95 or whatever. That’s part of the game, too, because you get weird stuff that lives…

Bad news for French pirates*: major private torrent tracker YggTorrent was totalled earlier this month. The site, formerly among the biggest—if it wasn’t the biggest—torrent tracking websites in France, was “emptied, then destroyed” by a hacker using the alias Gr0lum.All of the following quotes were originally in French, and have been machine-translated. In a manifesto…