Latest articles by Andy Chalk
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.
You can now twerk enemies to death in Repo thanks to the big new Monster Update—and it's free to play this weekend to celebrate
news The major update includes new enemies, valuables, rooms to explore, and yeah, the butt thing.
Less than 2 weeks before the launch of its next game, Hyper Light studio Heart Machine reportedly lays off even more employees
news Heart Machine laid off more than a dozen employees at the start of October, and now even more are saying they've been given the axe.
RuneScape players are being asked to vote on whether the game's microtransaction layer should be removed, and you can probably guess what the response is
news The poll has 14 days to reach 100,000 "yes" votes, and it got more than halfway there in just a few hours.
US Department of Homeland Security says it won't stop using videogame memes to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment: 'We aren't slowing down'
news So far the agency has used Pokémon and Halo to promote immigrant crackdowns on social media, and there's likely more to come.
As Amazon's game business crumbles, the public is surprised to discover that it was trying to compete with Steam all this time
news If you're wondering how it all went so wrong, former VP Ethan Evans might be able to shed some light on things.
Microsoft's Azure gets knocked out a week after the big AWS outage, and once again it looks like a bug is to blame
news you're having trouble downloading Outer Worlds 2, playing Minecraft, or booking a flight out of Heathrow, this is why.
New World is dead: Amazon ends new content updates following massive layoffs, says 'servers will be live through 2026'
news Amazon Games' best-known MMO is still running, but it's done.
Amazon Games is making major layoffs as it shifts focus away from MMOs to its Luna cloud gaming platform: 'We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development'
news The VP of Amazon Games says the layoffs are part of the 14,000 announced today, but represent broader "strategic changes" at the gaming division.
13 years after TimeSplitters Rewind was revealed to the world as a 'TimeSplitters CryEngine mod,' it's finally set to release in November
news It's actually happening.
One of the best top-down survival horror games of all time is getting a surprise sequel
news Darkwood 2, being developed by Ice-Pick Lodge, was announced at today's Xbox Showcase.
US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment
news The social media posts also included an image of US president Donald Trump dressed up as Master Chief.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt is the only battle royale I ever loved, so naturally it's going offline for good in April
news Two years after ending active development of the game, Sharkmob has announced the end.
EA confirms free-to-play Battlefield 6 battle royale is coming out tomorrow
news Battlefield: Redsec arrives on October 28.
As The Sims content creators depart over EA's $55 billion Saudi-backed buyout, the dev team promises the game 'will always be a space where you can express your authentic self'
news A message from The Sims development team says its "mission, values, and commitment remain the same," but unfortunately its owners are changing.
