Gamer Fridge

There are so many reasons I should be excited for Marathon, and many of them are aesthetic ones. I have a particular weakness for the stark, colorful, striking designs of its vectorheart-inspired art style that pairs cold sterility with bold, borderline-obnoxious color intensity. It’s like someone built a game from the desktop wallpaper I had—and…

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Finished the original Mass Effect for the first time ever, and wished I liked it more. I have to grapple with the fact that, when it comes to extraction shooters, I’ve developed Arc Raiders tunnel vision. In 24 hours with the Marathon server slam, I keep…

It’s been a decade since Stardew Valley continued a farming life obsession that started with Harvest Moon in my childhood, and I never seem to stay away for long. That’s partially thanks to ConcernedApe’s endless cycle of updates, and partially because the Stardew Valley mod scene is filled with talented fans determined to keep their…

The Marathon server slam is now a day underway and seems to be doing reasonably well. Some players love it, some are a little iffy, and of course there are complaints—not so much about the servers, which seem to be holding up well enough, but more basic elements of the game itself. In an update,…

The medieval MMO Gloria Victis shut down in 2023, “mostly due to financial reasons,” developer Black Eye Games said at the time, but also because of burnout. The game had been in full release for less than a year when the studio threw in the towel, which was disappointing, but there was six years of…