Gamer Fridge

The Postal series is essentially the videogame equivalent of Uwe Boll’s filmography*. They’re notoriously awful—the last one we reviewed was Postal 3 in 2012, which earned a dismal 21%—and they keep happening for some reason. A new addition to the lineup was announced on December 3, in fact, called Postal: Bullet Heaven. And then approximately…

Until I found the website ooh.directory last year, I hadn’t really understood, completely, how malnourished my internet diet had become. I still had some bookmarks I visited everyday, and the social media feed I checked (too often) for breaking news and interesting stories. But only when I made a conscious effort for the first time…

World of Warcraft‘s player housing feature has been out for less than a week—well, in early access, as long as you’ve bought the upcoming Midnight expansion—and I’m delighted to report that players are already going hogwild. For context, player housing has taken notes from every other popular MMO’s housing system and basically rolled it into…

Ever felt lost at sea in the first days of a new job? I’ll admit it—my first weeks at PC Gamer, I had no idea what I was doing (some might say that’s still the case). I was just trying to keep my head above water and not publish anything libellous, or at least nothing…

Spry Fox, the Seattle-based studio behind cozy games like Cozy Grove, got purchased by Netflix back in 2022 when the streaming giant was really trying to get into this whole videogame thing. While the acquisition did bear fruit—an upcoming mobile co-op life sim called Spirit Crossing—Spry Fox is parting ways with its owner after just…

It’s been a grim few months for the world of servers, cloud services, and hyperscalers. With AWS going AWOL in October and Cloudflare doing its best impression of a yo-yo in recent weeks, it would be nice to have some good news to share about that technology sector. Alas, no, as it turns out that…