Latest articles by Andy Chalk
'We have more levels than players': This indie dev's game was a complete flop, but he's powering through with his plan to release 20 seasons of new content anyway
news Endlight's annual "Right to Replay" challenge is coming up and there's a good chance no one will notice—but it's still going to happen.
Ubisoft buyout talks are reportedly progressing, but there's one small hitch: The Guillemot family wants to stay in charge, but Tencent isn't so sure about that
news The Guillemots founded Ubisoft in 1986, and they're not ready to let go.
Path of Exile 2 players are finally getting into the game: 'What we are doing right now is letting in players in batches so that we can make sure to monitor the backend and not overload it'
news If you can't get into the game right now, take comfort: You're not alone.
'It’s been a little sad to see Haunted Chocolatier getting dusty on the shelf, but this is the reality of my situation,' Eric Barone says: 'Stardew Valley is a big and popular game'
news Barone paused work on his new game so he could focus on Stardew Valley's 1.6 update, but he wants everyone to know he hasn't abandoned it.
Get Doom, Prey, System Shock, Dark Forces, and all the Crysis games for less than $20 in this really good Humble Bundle
news The Humble Sci-Fi Shooter Bundle is such a good deal, I'm willing to admit that I missed it for more than a week just so I can tell you about it now.
The Thing: Remastered comes to the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted with a surprise announcement—it's out right now
news Nightdive's latest remaster has a new trailer and a release date, which is today.
Watch an innocent oil worker get a high-speed gank in the debut trailer for Ready or Not's next DLC
news Ready or Not: Dark Waters is set to launch on December 10.
Fallout: London, the DLC-sized Fallout 4 mod, is getting DLC of its own
news The next patch was getting pretty huge, so Team Folon decided to go all-in.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is coming to Hitman, and you better believe he's doing splits all over the place
news Hitman's next Elusive Target is... The Splitter.
Warhorse says Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is coming out a week early 'so you can start 2025 with the best game there is,' but I feel like there might be another reason
news In case you'd forgotten, February 2025 is absurdly stacked.
December gets even worse as Friday the 13th developer Illfonic lays off employees
news Illfonic has "re-aligned to a refined strategy," which means a whole bunch of people don't have jobs anymore.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets a standalone character creator and a new patch for Dragon Age Day
news The fourth Veilguard patch makes some changes to photo mode and fixes another batch of bugs.
More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, just three weeks before Christmas
news 2023 was bad, but 2024 looks even worse.
Fortnite's drastically diminished Save the World XP rewards was a bug, Epic says, but now it's fixed
news Daily XP caps in Fortnite Save the World were changed to weekly without warning, which cut deeply into battle pass progression.
StarCraft 2's impossible mission has been beaten after 14 years by a guy who turned the 'Archon Toilet' into an 'Archon Bidet'
news The Protoss win.
Mass Effect boss may have dropped a hint about the next game: 'Make sure you play Lair of the Shadow Broker'
news Lots of people are picking up Mass Effect Legendary Edition in the Steam Autumn Sale, and Michael Gamble wants newcomers to pay attention to one part in particular.
One of the best Cyber Monday deals so far: These RTX 4070 gaming laptops are each under $900
Deal The HP Victus 16 and Lenovo LOQ are both marked down deeply for Cyber Monday.
The Logitech G502 Hero, my second-favorite mouse of all time, is less than half price for Cyber Monday
Deal My favorite mouse of all time is a distant memory, but its successor is no slouch and it's also really cheap right now
Get your monitors off your desk and onto the wall where they belong with this dual-monitor arm mount, on for just $41 for Black Friday
Deal Huanuo makes good monitor arms, and right now this one is very cheap.
Stalker 2's first patch is live with monster nerfs and more than 650 fixes for memory leaks, crash issues, and bad teeth
news The Zone will hopefully be smoother for everyone now, but fixes to A-Life 2.0 are still in the works.
Tencent's big new survival game looks like Palworld wrapped in Horizon Zero Dawn, but it does have an interesting premise: 'Why can't human beings kill God?'
news Light of Motiram is set in a lush world dominated by mechanical beasts, and yes it looks very familiar.
Meet weird avians, save a kidnapped goddess, and explore a gorgeous lantern world inspired by Persian art in this very funny new indie adventure game
news 30 Birds is out now on Steam.
The antitrust lawsuit against Steam is now a class action, and that could have big repercussions for Valve
news The lawsuit, originally filed in 2021, now encompasses "all persons or entities" who have sold games on Steam since 2017.
