Latest articles by Andy Chalk
There's hope yet for Classic Offensive after its Steam rejection: The team behind the Counter-Strike 1.6 revival mod is in touch with Valve about its 'concerns'
news The CS:GO mod Classic Offensive hasn't come back to life, but it's not dead, either.
8 months into their strike, videogame voice actors say the industry's latest proposal is 'filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse'
news Progress has been made, but SAG-AFTRA says the two sides in the dispute are still far apart.
LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art on the Balatro subreddit: 'I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds'
news A recent kerfuffle over AI art forced the Balatro creator to get involved.
Rise of the Ronin is another crappy PC port, performance patch coming 'soon'
news Widespread problems with stuttering, low frame rates, and sub-par graphics have saddled Rise of the Ronin with a "mixed" rating on Steam.
Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'
news Rebellion makes big games, but not that big.
Oops! Bungie rolled out Destiny 2's Rite of the Nine event three weeks early, and new loot is already dropping
news The Dungeon-themed event was supposed to go live on April 1, but it looks like someone hit the wrong button.
No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios is now 'fully independent' after acquiring the rights to the game from Take-Two
news Take-Two said when it sold Private Division in 2024 that it would continue supporting No Rest for the Wicked itself, but the plan has changed.
The best baseball player alive is coming to Fortnite, and so is his dog
news Shohei Ohtani will become the first Major League Baseball player to join the Fortnite Icon Series.
'Creepy,' 'ghastly,' 'rancid': Viewers react to leaked video of Sony's AI-powered Aloy
news The video of Aloy hooked up to OpenAI and various other systems was not meant for public consumption, and you can see why.
Split Fiction sells 1 million copies over 2 days
news 1 million over 2 days - ½. Split Fraction? Get it? No? OK.
More than 5 years after launch, Control gets a surprise patch that lets everyone play the Hideo Kojima mission
news Today's update also adds some previously preorder-exclusive cosmetics, official HDR support, and more.
The next Monster Hunter Wilds update is set to launch on March 10 and will ensure that when you chop off monster parts, the right monster parts get chopped off
news Capcom says it's "working away behind the scenes" to get Monster Hunter Wilds in proper shape.
The official Balatro Timeline documents the history of 2024's biggest game as its developer went from 'obsessed' with making it to 'shocked' at the reception
news LocalThunk's detailed account of the creation of Balatro is remarkably entertaining.
Battlefield playtest gameplay is leaking all over the internet, and fans seem cautiously but genuinely excited: 'Okay, we might be back'
news Interestingly, Electronic Arts does not appear to be putting great effort into having the gameplay clips taken down.
Following a disastrous beta test, Killing Floor 3 is delayed less than three weeks before launch: 'We've realized we missed the mark'
news Killing Floor 3 is now set to come out later in 2025.
EVE Online studio CCP Games hires former Iceland Central Bank economist for its crypto game, because nothing says 'fun' like 'removing currency controls and fostering emergent value systems'
news EVE Online had a lead economist, and now EVE Frontier does too.
Robocop: Rogue City is getting a 'standalone expansion' that sounds an awful lot like The Raid
news Robocop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business will be out this summer.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's upcoming 1.2 update has a ridiculous 34 pages of patch notes
news Sexy haircuts and premature death are just the beginning.
Dark and Darker delisted again, this time from the Epic Games Store
news Ironmace isn't sure what happened but says the removal seems to be the result of an "ongoing legal dispute."
The tough luck continues in Dead in Antares, the newest addition to the long-running series about people trying not to lose their heads in bad situations
news The third game in the Dead In survival sim series will be out later this year.
Firaxis says it's 'entering our Sukritact Age' as it hires popular modder to work on Civilization 7
news The community is awfully happy about this one.
Cities: Skylines 2's asset editor remains a distant dream: Colossal Order is still working on it but says it's 'proven more technically challenging than initially anticipated'
news More than a year after Cities: Skylines 2 launched on PC, there's still no release target for the asset editor or the console versions of the game.
Ubisoft reveals Assassin's Creed Shadows preload and unlock times
news If you're on Xbox, you could be preloading right now, but the rest of us have to wait.
