Latest articles by Andy Chalk
The internet is agog at Captain America's hog
news NetEase went whole hog with Cap's new Marvel Rivals swimsuit skin.
The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action
news Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand is coming later this month.
'Fewer than 10' employees remain at Thick as Thieves studio following another round of layoffs
news 18 more people have been let go from OtherSide Entertainment, and the future does not look good.
Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027
news Frictional says Ontos is its "most ambitious game to date," and it wants to get it right.
Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source
news After the disastrous end of Midnight Society, Robert Bowling is back to try again.
Ubisoft hires former Take-Two and Amazon vet to head up its Tom Clancy games
news Christoph Hartmann is the new boss as Ubisoft's Creative House 2 studio.
Fresh off of dumping on Xbox's flailing, former Sony exec says PlayStation's pullback from PC releases doesn't make any sense either
news Shawn Layden is a man with opinions, and now that he's out of the game he doesn't mind sharing them.
Ahead of next week's expected Xbox bloodbath, IO Interactive loses funding for its online fantasy RPG
news The studio says it remains "100% committed" to Project Fantasy, but its future is now very uncertain.
Before his death in 2025, Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov worked on one last game: A Wild West FPS soulslike that's 'coming soon' to Steam
news Antonov's bold vision helped define games including Half-Life 2, Dishonored, Weird West, and soon, Guns of Eschaton.
After leading the studio through 2 rounds of layoffs and 1 game release, the CEO of Supermassive is stepping down
news He's also stepping down from his role at Supermassive parent Nordisk, so he can spend the summer with his family.
Hideki Kamiya thinks there should be a cozy Resident Evil game, where 'retired Leon goes fishing in the countryside'
news It's cool if someone else makes it, as long as he gets to play it.
5 years after we called this Kickstarted MMO 'a giant fiasco' and just 3 months after it finally launched, it's shutting down
news Even the shutdown process is turning into a mess.
Steam Machine Companion Cube case cancelled because Dbrand didn't ask Valve for permission to make it: 'We’re going to regret that decision for a very long time'
news This was definitely not a triumph.
Windows 10 gets yet another year of life as Microsoft extends security updates into 2027
news Vive la Windows 10!
Steam Machine preorder emails are in the wild, and it finally feels real: Valve is actually gonna release this thing in 2026
news Did you get one?
As its much newer sequel struggles, the 13-year-old Payday 2 is getting a 'massive engine upgrade' that improves performance and cuts the install size in half
news The studio that took over Payday 2 development in 2025 has been hard at work.
Deltarune Chapter 5 launches to nearly 300,000 concurrent players on Steam, Chapter 6 is coming in 2027
news People sure seem to like Deltarune.
1 year after launch, spaceship shooter Wildgate will end development after its next update
news Thankfully, it's not shutting down, and developer Moonshot Games says no layoffs are planned.
It's not layoffs, but you can see them from here: Numerous Compulsion Games employees are looking for new jobs
news The sudden influx of "open to work" posts suggests that fears of major Xbox layoffs in the near future are well founded.
The Steam Summer Sale goes live with 'deep-a** discounts' across thousands of games
news Don't blame me, that's what they said.
With Destiny 2 over, Bungie lays off 'most of the Destiny team and some Marathon team members'
news The number of people put out of work has not been disclosed, but it doesn't sound good.
You can finally turn Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat off when you're not playing a game
news Most of you, anyway.
John Carmack apologizes after Sandy Petersen says 'Quake ruined id Software,' and for once John Romero doesn't tell Sandy he's wrong
news Three of the principals from the early days of id Software shared some faintly maudlin but ultimately uplifting reminiscences from those long-ago days.
