Gamer Fridge

Earlier this year, we relayed a story about how Janet Jackson’s song Rhythm Nation just so happened to include the resonant frequency of 5,400 RPM 2.5-inch hard drives commonly used in laptops for many years. When played on (or even near) those laptops, the song would cause the drives to malfunction—and it was such a…

If you haven’t heard, Steam is having a Black Friday sale for the first time ever. Yep, despite hosting nonstop sale events all year along, this is the first one formally branded around post-Thanksgiving consumerism. It’s not one of Steam’s “big” sales of the year—the kind that takes over the entire store page and gives…

Two months ago, storied shooter studio Splash Damage parted ways with Tencent and ended up in the hands of private equity investors. I said at the time that it probably wasn’t a good development, and I wish I’d been wrong but I was right: The studio said today that it is “entering a studio-wide consultation…

Look at any of a number of Steam store pages—Arc Raiders, for instance—and you’ll see a fairly prominent “AI generated content disclosure” laying out which parts of the game make use of AI generated content. Go to the Epic Games Store, however, and you’ll see nothing of the sort. And that’s a difference that’s not…

The big renaissance for life sims that I was expecting this year hasn’t happened, thanks in part to a sudden delay for Paralives that was announced a couple weeks back. To ease the sting of delaying just a few weeks ahead of its intended launch, the Paralives team did show off 45 minutes of new,…

We first noticed that the Arc Raiders servers were down this morning at around 10:30 am Pacific time, but that’s not the end of it. Downdetector has seen a spike in reports from users who are having trouble accessing Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, Rocket League, Dead by Daylight, PSN, Xbox Live, Elden Ring, Battle.net,…

Uh oh, Arc Raiders servers are down again. Reports of outages with the extraction shooter began around 10AM PST and seem to be persisting over an hour later. I just tried to log in and hit a “queue” for the first time since launch day, suggesting a lot people are trying to login at the…

It’s a momentous time for World of Warcraft. The next expansion, Midnight, will shift how the game is played for everyone with sweeping changes to the most popular combat mods and the long-awaited introduction of player housing. This new era for the MMO will begin when Midnight launches on March 2. Blizzard dropped the release…