Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Fallout 76 devs were surprised the community turned out to be so friendly: 'It’s post-apocalyptic, it’s Fallout, they’re going to all want to kill one another ... it's the complete opposite'
news Maybe war does change sometimes?
Genshin Impact fan wiki operator may be having second thoughts about datamining after Cognosphere unleashes the lawyers, says it 'will only update live game data in the future'
news Cognosphere, better known as MiHoYo, sued the operator of the HomDGCat wiki after multiple requests to take it down were rebuffed.
Hideo Kojima posts a cryptic message about 'editing' something and an awful lot of people are convinced it means Death Stranding 2 for PC will be announced later this week
news There's a State of Play coming up, you know.
Discord's new age verification rules got you down? Allow me to suggest an alternative: Internet Relay Chat
IRC Launched in 1988, IRC was created by and for computer nerds, and it won't hold your hand but it also doesn't want to see your face.
Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value'
news Is it just me or does that not sound great?
Riot lays off 2XKO developers less than three weeks after release: 'Overall momentum hasn't reached the level needed to support a team of this size'
news Roughly 80 employees are being let go as Riot's long-awaited fighting game fails to catch fire.
Discord is rolling out facial scanning and ID checks globally in March for users who don't want to be locked into a 'teen-appropriate experience'
news The new policy comes just four months after a leak of 70,000 age verification ID photos.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio bestowed with France's Order of Arts and Letters: 'The Republic affirms: videogames are a major art form and an essential industry'
news Score another one for Sandfall Interactive.
Hideo Kojima pulls out of GDC at the last minute
news Kojima was set to deliver the first GDC keynote in five years, but announced today that he'll be unable to attend.
A great puzzle game for people who like the idea of Blue Prince but don't want to spend days banging their head against it is free for the week on the Epic Store
news Botany Manor is up for grabs on Epic for the first time.
Highguard is adding a new hero who turns into wolf, and a new wolf mount that everyone else can ride around on (but no, they're not the same guy)
news Highguard Episode 2, set to roll out on February 6, is making some big changes.
Sony's co-op Horizon game is real, it's coming to PC day one, and you can sign up for playtests that start this month
news Horizon Hunters Gathering is an all-new take on the series that "stands on its own."
World of Warcraft producer says Chris Metzen sometimes wishes Blizzard hadn't called it Warcraft because 'it sounds intimidating,' and some fans are not taking it well
news It wasn't a serious comment, but some folks are taking it way too seriously.
'We’re not planning on making absolute statements in either direction,' GOG boss says about generative AI, leading supporters to make some absolute statements in one very specific direction: 'Absolutely terrible response'
news An AI generated banner turned up on GOG last week, and efforts to clean up the mess aren't going especially well.
One-third of consumers don't want AI on their devices, report finds, and it's not because they don't understand it: They just don't need it
news The problem with AI isn't that it's not been clearly explained. The problem is, it sucks.
7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables
news The surprise remaster is being made by Skunkape, the team behind the updated versions of Telltale's Sam and Max games.
Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven continues to look for a hit, this time with a 'run-based' spin-off of Sunderfolk without the phone controls
news Shadowstone is set to launch into early access later this year.
MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its 'most significant post-launch update' is now live and an expansion is coming later this year
news None of this makes sense to me, but it's sure interesting to watch.
'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company'
news CEO Strauss Zelnick says generative AI remains a tool for enabling creators to do bigger and better things, but it sounds like a shift away from past comments.
Grand Theft Auto 6 'launch marketing' will begin this summer as the November release date remains on track
news For consoles, at least. For PC? Well, no.
Eric Barone says he'd 'love to' make Stardew Valley 2 someday: 'A whole new set of characters, a whole new world, maybe capture some of that original energy that I had back in 2012'
news Maybe someday?
MindsEye studio boss threatens legal action against YouTuber as co-CEO Leslie Benzies denies Epstein allegations: 'I have never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor have I ever visited his island'
news The "cease and desist" demand was posted to the MindsEye Discord just minutes after Cyber Boi's video went live.
The Epic Games Store had a record-breaking 2025, with gamers throwing $1.16 billion at the 6,000-plus games it now offers
news You also sent more than 100,000 gifts on the Epic store, which seems pretty good for a service that only rolled out in mid-November.
