Latest articles by Andy Chalk
The Mass Effect TV series will 'explore a brand-new story within the universe’s timeline,' BioWare exec says: 'It won’t be a retread of Commander Shepard's story'
news A year after the series was confirmed as being in development, Mike Gamble says writers have "got a lot figured out about how it fits within the Mass Effect canon."
Mass Effect boss Mike Gamble slips a hidden message into his N7 Day update, asks fans to stop yelling at him for not sharing more info about the new game
news Yes, BioWare is still working on it. No, there is nothing new to say or show.
There's a bug in Arc Raiders that's causing the sound to drop out for some players—here's how to fix it
news Until Embark Studios puts out a proper fix for the problem, this should smooth things out.
Take-Two boss says 'we've never regretted' delaying a game following the Grand Theft Auto 6 pushback, says other studios might have better luck if they did the same thing once in a while
news Strauss Zelnick says delays are "painful" but companies who don't postpone games that need more work do so "at their peril."
Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed to November 2026: 'These extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve'
news Take-Two announced the new release target in today's quarterly financial report.
Things are so bad for Payday 3 at this point, even Crime Boss: Rockay City is making fun of it
news A new Rockay City trailer pokes fun at a recent Payday 3 misstep, and it's actually kind of clever.
NetEase closes a fifth Western studio: Just two years after it was founded, Bad Brain Game Studios will shut down for good next week
news Bad Brain was founded in August 2023, but NetEase opted to end its partnership with the studio just two years later.
Battlefield 6 players says they got banned from Steam forums for sharing a config tweak that lets PC players disable crossplay, and yes, PC players can disable crossplay
news At least one other person who's posted about the config file change on Steam has not been banned yet, though, so who knows.
Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted patch brings back the dynamic audio so many players were missing from the original game
news It's a bigger deal than you might think.
Sorry, Fallout fans, but Obsidian isn't really interested in making New Vegas 2: After years of working on other people's games, the studio is finding 'joy' in doing its own thing
news Obsidian released three games in 2025, and all of them were original Obsidian IP.
6 years after the original, Planet Zoo 2 is finally happening and may be out next year
news Frontier Developments has confirmed that it is "hard at work on a sequel."
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says there's a reason the Grand Theft Auto games are always set in US cities: 'Guns'
news Grand Theft Auto did actually go to London, but it was in 1999 for the original GTA—and the series never returned
One of the studios NetEase killed earlier this year is back from the dead as an 'independent production company,' but its original boss is nowhere to be seen
news T-Minus Zero, which lost its NetEase backing in September, has been acquired and relaunched by a group of industry veterans.
Lord of the Rings Online player accurately recreates Frodo's journey to Mount Doom in 10-hour YouTube video: 'When I saw how perfectly the game followed Tolkien's imagination, I decided to do it properly'
news It took five months and "meticulous" planning to put together the lore-accurate recreation of Frodo's epic quest to destroy the One Ring.
Arc Raiders studio is returning loot to players who get hosed by cheaters: 'We're committed to building an environment where gameplay is about skill, teamwork, and fun'
news Cheaters suck, but Embark is doing what it can.
The MMO being led by former WoW designer Greg Street looks to be dead as his studio officially closes after NetEase ends funding: 'While we'd love to make our game, our first priority is to help our developers find employment'
news Greg Street said in October that Fantastic Pixel Castle would "likely close" if it couldn't secure new funding, and now the curtain has fallen.
Arc Raiders gives free money to everyone to say sorry for the weekend server struggles
news The Arc Raiders servers had a bit of a "wobble" as more than 350,000 people rushed in to play on Sunday.
Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't
news Japan's Content Overseas Distribution Association has noticed that an awful lot of what comes out of Sora 2 "closely resembles Japanese content or images."
Rockstar accused of 'the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry' after firing dozens of employees who were allegedly attempting to form a union
news Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive says all the employees in question were fired for "gross misconduct."
Condemned: Criminal Origins, the best game about beating people to death with a lead pipe I've ever played, has been delisted from Steam and Xbox, and fans are hoping that means a remaster is on the way
news Monolith's classic brain-smasher was delisted on Halloween, and yeah, that might be a coincidence but I sure hope not.
GOG is giving away the perfect horror freebie for Halloween
news The most excellent (and awful) adventure Stasis is yours to keep until November 3.
Patrick Soderlund, who was vice president at EA when Titanfall 2 got crushed between Battlefield and Call of Duty, talks about doing it again with Arc Raiders: 'People may look at that and say, what the hell are they doing?'
news Arc Raiders launched today, squarely between Battlefield 6 and Black Ops 7, but unlike Titanfall 2 it doesn't seem to be a problem.
Roblox, which is being sued by 3 US states for endangering children, earns praise from the US Attorney General Alliance 'for its readiness to collaborate directly with policymakers and respond to community concerns'
news Roblox is an inaugural partner in the new Partnership for Youth Online Safety initiative.
