Andy Chalk

Andy Chalk

US News Lead

Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.

Latest articles by Andy Chalk

The Hand Cannon in Fortnite.
Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker

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news No more leaking for you!

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Mechanical base in Sand
Sand publisher celebrates 300,000 copies sold: 'We getting a half hour of air conditioning tonight!'

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news Yesterday's big update, which had to be rolled back after it caused connection problems, is also live again.

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Nexus: The Jupiter Incident trailer still - big spaceship firing green beam at smaller ship that's running away
One of the best sci-fi strategy games of 2004 is free in GOG's Summer Sale

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news Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is an oldie but a goodie.

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Johnny Silverhand riding shotgun in Cyberpunk 2077 2.2 update
Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 40 million copies, 'a testament to what CD Projekt does best'

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Captain America in Marvel Rivals, with his huge hog cropped out
The internet is agog at Captain America's hog

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news NetEase went whole hog with Cap's new Marvel Rivals swimsuit skin.

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Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand trailer still - British tank firing at German tank
The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action

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news Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand is coming later this month.

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Thick as Thieves guard and turret
'Fewer than 10' employees remain at Thick as Thieves studio following another round of layoffs

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news 18 more people have been let go from OtherSide Entertainment, and the future does not look good.

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Half a head connected to cables
Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027

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news Frictional says Ontos is its "most ambitious game to date," and it wants to get it right.

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Soap in MW2
Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source

By Andy Chalk Published

news After the disastrous end of Midnight Society, Robert Bowling is back to try again.

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Splinter Cell
Ubisoft hires former Take-Two and Amazon vet to head up its Tom Clancy games

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news Christoph Hartmann is the new boss as Ubisoft's Creative House 2 studio.

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Toronto , Canada - 21 May 2019; Shawn Layden, Chairman, Worldwide Studios, Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation), on Centre Stage during day one of Collision 2019 at Enercare Center in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile via Getty Images)
Fresh off of dumping on Xbox's flailing, former Sony exec says PlayStation's pullback from PC releases doesn't make any sense either

By Andy Chalk Published

news Shawn Layden is a man with opinions, and now that he's out of the game he doesn't mind sharing them.

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Artwork for IOI's upcoming Project Fantasy, showing three figures that resemble an elf, a human, and a dwarf.
Ahead of next week's expected Xbox bloodbath, IO Interactive loses funding for its online fantasy RPG

By Andy Chalk Published

news The studio says it remains "100% committed" to Project Fantasy, but its future is now very uncertain.

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Guns of Eschaton trailer still - rider on an infernal horse
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

By Andy Chalk Published

news Antonov's bold vision helped define games including Half-Life 2, Dishonored, Weird West, and soon, Guns of Eschaton.

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Character with head in their hands
After leading the studio through 2 rounds of layoffs and 1 game release, the CEO of Supermassive is stepping down

By Andy Chalk Published

news He's also stepping down from his role at Supermassive parent Nordisk, so he can spend the summer with his family.

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Hideki Kamiya
Hideki Kamiya thinks there should be a cozy Resident Evil game, where 'retired Leon goes fishing in the countryside'

By Andy Chalk Published

news It's cool if someone else makes it, as long as he gets to play it.

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DreamWorld screen (cropped) - kneeling knight holding a glowing yellow sword
5 years after we called this Kickstarted MMO 'a giant fiasco' and just 3 months after it finally launched, it's shutting down

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news Even the shutdown process is turning into a mess.

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Companion Cube Steam Machine case mockup by Dbrand
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'

By Andy Chalk Published

news This was definitely not a triumph.

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Windows 10 launch event screen with shadow of presenter in front of it
Windows 10 gets yet another year of life as Microsoft extends security updates into 2027

By Andy Chalk Published

news Vive la Windows 10!

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A Steam Machine in front of a TV, showing the SteamOS interface running in the background
Steam Machine preorder emails are in the wild, and it finally feels real: Valve is actually gonna release this thing in 2026

By Andy Chalk Published

news Did you get one?

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Payday 2 heisters in nice suits and gold masks
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

By Andy Chalk Published

news The studio that took over Payday 2 development in 2025 has been hard at work.

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Deltarune Chapter 5 trailer still - three characters running
Deltarune Chapter 5 launches to nearly 300,000 concurrent players on Steam, Chapter 6 is coming in 2027

By Andy Chalk Published

news People sure seem to like Deltarune.

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Four Wildgate characters standing side by side
1 year after launch, spaceship shooter Wildgate will end development after its next update

By Andy Chalk Published

news Thankfully, it's not shutting down, and developer Moonshot Games says no layoffs are planned.

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South of Midnight's Hazel Flood as she looks at one of the blue bottles she removed from an old man's bottle tree.
It's not layoffs, but you can see them from here: Numerous Compulsion Games employees are looking for new jobs

By Andy Chalk Published

news The sudden influx of "open to work" posts suggests that fears of major Xbox layoffs in the near future are well founded.

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Steam Summer Sale 2026 logo
The Steam Summer Sale goes live with 'deep-a** discounts' across thousands of games

By Andy Chalk Published

news Don't blame me, that's what they said.

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Bungie studio logo
With Destiny 2 over, Bungie lays off 'most of the Destiny team and some Marathon team members'

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news The number of people put out of work has not been disclosed, but it doesn't sound good.

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