Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Europe's PEGI game rating website leaks a new Life is Strange game, and it sure sounds like Max and Chloe are getting back together
news The new game, according to a PEGI rating that probably wasn't supposed to be made public, is called Life is Strange: Reunion.
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
More than 8 years after The New Colossus, a new Wolfenstein game is reportedly in the works at MachineGames
news It's about time.
Amazon's Fallout website is counting down to something, and fans are hoping the long-awaited Fallout 3 remaster (or maybe even New Vegas) is finally on the way
news The countdown is set to hit zero when the final episode of Fallout season 2 arrives. But we already know when that's happening, so why bother with a countdown? Unless...
'Steam Charts don't measure fun,' Splitgate: Arena Reloaded studio says in response to worries about declining player numbers: 'They don't show the full picture'
news Fair enough, but "fun" doesn't pay to keep the servers online.
Schedule 1 developer TVGS is 'an actual game studio' now, with an office, desks, and a new guy named Rob: 'By the end of the year, there will likely be 4 people working on Schedule 1'
news Life is good.
'That's pretty cool': Larian boss Swen Vincke responds after Stranger Things co-creator credits Baldur's Gate 3 for inspiring the show's climactic battle
news Matt Duffer's been playing Baldur's Gate 3 lately, and apparently it gave him an idea.
007 First Light reveals some pretty forgiving PC system requirements, with a couple caveats
news The minimum system requirement is basic but the recommended hardware is fairly high-end, despite only promising 60 fps at 1080p.
What games did you play over the holidays?
HAPPY NEW YEAR One last look back at the Christmas break.
Cyberpunk 2 director says there'd be no point in giving players more time with Jackie in Cyberpunk 2077: 'It's like saying we should spend more time on Tatooine with farmer Luke before he got involved with all this Jedi stuff'
news Sorry, Jackster.
A mystery that went unnoticed for 7 years has Red Dead Redemption 2 players working furiously to make the connection between spiderwebs, telegraph poles, guitars, and maybe even Grand Theft Auto 5
news It's a full-on head-scratcher, alright.
No new Deus Ex game this year, according to Adam Jensen actor Elias Toufexis, who says the owners are 'psychopaths' for not concluding the trilogy
news Toufexis clarified that he's "just kidding" about the psychopathy thing, but also yeah, "they're crazy."
'It's a damn miracle we were able to salvage Hytale,' original co-founder and new owner Simon Collins-Laflamme says: After years in development at Riot, 'it was barely playable'
news Collins-Laflamme, who acquired Hytale from Riot in November 2025, says he's angry about all the time wasted, but the team is turning things around in a hurry.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools'
news That sounds really neat man, could we have Arkane Austin back?
Silent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team kicks off 2026 by giving us 45 days to figure out what 'RemoSdNeulSerore-hsoOvamCeyerd' is
news It's a countdown to... something?
Former Elder Scrolls Online chief confirms Microsoft's 2025 bloodbath drove his departure from ZeniMax: 'Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create'
news Matt Firor announced his split from ZeniMax Online Studios the same day Microsoft laid off roughly 9,000 employees and cancelled multiple game projects.
AI, Crysis, lusty argonians, and pinball: These are our most-read news stories of 2025
News of 2025 A look back at the year that was, as chosen (sort of) by you.
A game about giant, helpless teddy bears fleeing a dying world may be a bit on the nose right now, but it's also my favorite game of 2025
🏆 Herdling is a small, simple diversion, and sometimes that's exactly what you need.
Steam seems to be back to normal, at least for the moment, but now it looks like the Epic Games Store is getting hammered
news This could be a rough holiday for online gaming services.
Blade director reassures suffering fans with soothing words: 'Please be patient, it will be a special game'
news Dinga Bakaba dropped in on X to let everyone know that despite the extended silence, Arkane is hard at work and everything is fine.
Commander Shepard actors will return for the new Mass Effect game 'with bells on' if BioWare asks them: 'Email the powers-that-be who make these games and say, Give us more Shepard'
news After all these years, Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer are eager for more.
Polish analyst adds fuel to rumors that The Witcher 3 will get new DLC in 2026 to set up The Witcher 4
news It makes sense—and this isn't the first time we've heard these rumors.
Electronic Arts shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favor of Saudi-led takeover
news The deal is still subject to regulatory approval, but that's a big hurdle cleared.
