Gamer Fridge

It’s been a few years since current-gen consoles got their fancy GTA 5 upgrade loaded with new features and modern graphics updates, but that version is finally available on PC now as Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced. The souped-up version of GTA comes to PC with Hao’s Special Works auto shop, new vehicles, and enough…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is great. So great that I slapped a 90% score on it in our Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review. But frankly, I wasted a lot of your time in that piece, nattering on about narrative and mechanics and whatever when I could have just presented you with my grand unified theory…

Genre hybrids are everywhere these days—whether a turn-based soulslike or a city-building deckbuilder—but I’m still regularly surprised by new combos, some so natural that it seems ridiculous that there aren’t already a hundred games doing the same mash-up. Absolum‘s mix of side-scrolling beat-’em-up and roguelike action-RPG is the perfect example. Beat-’em-ups thrive in repetition—the classic…

This week President Donald Trump announced that his long-term plan to put tariffs on non-American-made goods would go into effect, and Nvidia, a company headquartered in America but whose products are mostly manufactured out of Taiwan, has already taken a hit in its stock price. The price fell 9% on Monday night and 12% over…

The CEO of electronics specialist Best Buy says that “price increases for American consumers [are] highly likely” as a consequence of tariffs going live today. Meanwhile, the CEO of Target reckons that tariffs mean “prices will go up”. So, if you’re in the market for a GPU and you spot anything near MSRP when Nvidia’s…

When I say ‘AI’, what do you think of? Large Language Models saying something outrageous? Vaguely melted or otherwise bland looking images fashioned using a generative model? Perhaps even videogame NPC behaviour? While all of the above work on the same principle—to risk oversimplification, that is a computer stitching together human-created fragments to make something…

There are a lot of studios taking a crack at developing ‘the next Disco Elysium‘, but the one that’s intrigued me the most so far is Rue Valley. Emotion Spark’s narrative RPG is set during a 47-minute window in an out-of-the-way motel, featuring an enigmatic protagonist trying to forget about some unexplained trauma. At the…