Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Hogwarts Legacy goes free for the first time to kick off the Epic Games Store's 2025 Holiday Sale
news If you still want to play it, here's your chance.
The new voice of Lara Croft is a veteran of Cyberpunk 2077, Lies of P, Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed, and a whole bunch more
news Alix Wilton Regan adds Tomb Raider to her long list of credits.
Internet not convinced it should care about another PvP hero shooter, collective eye-roll plunges big Game Awards finale reveal into a YouTube dislikes hole
news Geoff Keighley went hard on the hype for Highguard, but it wasn't very convincing.
Tomb Raider comes to The Game Awards with not just one but two new games: a 're-imagining' and an all-new adventure
news Lara Croft is back.
Resident Evil Requiem will have Leon S. Kennedy as its second protagonist, and he's bringing his sick roundhouse with him
news Turns out the new Resident Evil is a two-way teamup.
Rockstar now says fired employees were let go because they revealed 'specific game features from upcoming and unannounced titles' in a public forum
news Apparently it wasn't just GTA 6. And it definitely wasn't about unionizing.
The Deus Ex remaster that everyone thinks looks awful is delayed, there's no new release date, and preorders are being refunded
news Normally I would say "this isn't good" but in this case? Yeah, good.
007 First Light's first villain is Lenny Kravitz, and I bet he's not going to get away
news No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to fly away.
The Outer Worlds is actually not being delisted from GOG after all: 'It was an unfortunate miscommunication'
news Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is apparently still on the block, but GOG is hopeful for a turnaround on that one too.
McDonald's achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so miserable the production company responsible pulled a statement defending it after the ad was removed: This was 'an important learning,' McDonald's exec says, but what did we learn?
news I don't know either, but I doubt very much they learned not to do it again.
Not even the UK government knows why Rockstar fired more than 30 employees in October: MP says that after meeting with the studio, 'I did not leave informed on exactly what these 31 people had done to warrant their immediate dismissal'
news The pressure on Rockstar is growing as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer weighs in on the matter.
King of Meat studio was reportedly expecting 100,000 concurrent players, but it peaked at 320 on Steam—and that was during a free weekend
news Glowmade is now reportedly making layoffs.
'We actually didn't attribute any value' to Warner's game studios, Netflix boss says about the acquisition deal: 'They're relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things'
news Ouch, that hurts.
The mystery of The Game Awards statue in the desert may be solved, and I have to admit I did not see this one coming
news No, I'm not going to spoil it in the headline. If you want to know, click the link.
After accumulating more than 200,000 wishlists, a NSFW gacha game cancels its planned Steam release over a 'policy requirements' problem 'that cannot be reasonably resolved'
news After four years on mobile devices, BrownDust 2 was set to come to Steam on December 16, but less than two weeks ahead of time the whole thing has been stopped.
Somehow the Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake continues to leak, thanks to a PEGI rating for something called Black Flag Resynced
news And yet Ubisoft still won't just come out and say it.
Shenmue studio threatens legal action over an apparently faked Shenmue 4 trailer, which it says 'has absolutely no connection to Ys Net'
news The purported work-in-progress trailer popped up on YouTube last week.
The Game Awards reveals fan-voted Players' Voice nominees, and I'm sorry to say that Megabonk is once again out of the show
news It's been a ride, but the ride is over.
Humble Bundle is closing out 2025 by bringing back some of its most popular bundles of the year, including one with every Borderlands game ever made for just $70
news A new mix of game, book, and software bundles is going up for grabs every day, but they'll only be around for a very short time.
Paramount, backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, one day after US president Donald Trump says the Netflix deal 'could be a problem'
news The Paramount bid is also supported by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, so that's probably not great for Netflix's ambitions.
Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, known for his iconic depiction of Mortal Kombat villain Shang Tsung, has died
news Tagawa died of complications from a stroke at age 75.
Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros, including its game studios, for nearly $83 billion-with-a-B, but the fight may not be over yet
news Paramount Skydance was also vying for WBD and it doesn't seem willing to take "no" for an answer.
Remember Postal? In the last 48 hours publisher Running With Scissors has announced a new game, insulted fans, apologized, canceled the game, the studio making it denied wrongdoing, shut down anyway, and we can thank the magic of AI for all of it
news We've finally found a game that's beneath the standards of Postal.
Oh no, all of Reddit's NFTs are disappearing in less than 30 days, someone do something
news Owners of Reddit Collectible Avatar NFTs have until the end of December to transfer their Vaults to a new wallet, or lose it forever.
Hytale won't be on Steam when it launches into early access: Developers want to focus on the game, not 'on negative reviews from players that aren't as well-informed yet about what we are doing'
news Hypixel Studios says Steam is a "great marketing tool" but not one it necessarily needs.
