Latest articles by Andy Chalk
'This year seems shakier than ever,' BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says, and live service games are a big part of the reason—but Grand Theft Auto 6 might force the industry to change
news 2024 was miserable, but somehow 2025 is even worse.
Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'
news The problem first came to light about a month ago, but Valve has only now offered an explanation.
Take-Two boss is really very confident that Grand Theft Auto 6 won't be delayed again: 'My level of conviction is very, very high'
news Anything can happen, but Strauss Zelnick is a believer.
Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: 'We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza'
news Members of the STJV union at Arkane have published an open letter calling for an immediate termination of the company's contracts with the IDF.
Krafton fires back at Unknown Worlds lawsuit, says Subnautica 2 was at risk of causing 'irreversible harm to the entire franchise' like Kerbal Space Program 2
news Krafton says the former heads of Unknown Worlds were fired with cause to keep them from "permanently damaging Unknown Worlds' most valuable IP."
Fae Farm announces the looming end of online play on Steam, and disappears entirely from Epic, but Phoenix Labs is still around
news The cozy farming sim will still be playable offline, but support for co-op play—on Steam, at least—is ending in September.
Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a 'Mage of the Way' who battles injustice and corruption in ancient Korea
news Details are scant, but Woochi the Wayfarer's announcement teaser is pretty slick.
The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content
news Google and OpenAI can scrape Reddit's content, but they paid for it.
Take-Two boss says Civilization 7 projections 'are very consistent with our initial expectations' despite its rough start: 'The key thing is that Civ has always been a slow burn'
news Civ games traditionally have a long time and Strauss Zelnick believes Civ 7 will too.
The Tencent survival game being sued by Sony quietly purges most Horizon-like content from its Steam page, bumps release date to late 2027
news It looks very much like Tencent does not want to tangle with Sony on this one.
Diablo boss Rod Fergusson is leaving Blizzard for a 'new adventure'
news Fergusson joined Blizzard in 2020 after a long career as head of Gears of War studio The Coalition.
Less than 2 months after releasing Tron: Catalyst, developer Bithell Games lays off the majority of full-time staff
news Studio boss Mike Bithell said the team was unable to land a "new larger scale project" to work on.
Former Blizzard president predicts Battlefield 6 is going to 'boot stomp' Black Ops 7 because Call of Duty has become 'lazy'
news It's not necessarily that Battlefield is that much better, according to Mike Ybarra, but that Call of Duty kind of sucks.
'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'
news Despite its troubles, Strauss Zelnick promises BioShock 4 is not at risk of being cancelled.
Id Software kicks off QuakeCon with a surprise release of Heretic + Hexen, an 'enhanced' bundle with cross-platform multiplayer, mod support, and more
news One year after the Doom + Doom 2 bundle, id Software and Nightdive Studios has done it again.
It looks like Microsoft's cuts got another one: Avalanche has stopped work on its 1970s smuggling sim Contraband to 'evaluate the project's future'
news Contraband was announced in 2021 as a partnership between Avalanche Studios and Xbox.
Embracer brings original Guitar Hero publisher RedOctane back from the dead for 'the next evolution in rhythm gaming'
news RedOctane Games is being headed up by Guitar Hero veteran Simon Ebejer, and includes original founders Kai and Charles Huang as "advisors."
Sony has seen enough: 3 years after acquiring Bungie, Sony says the days of independence are 'getting lighter' and its future 'is to become part of PlayStation Studios'
news Bungie was intended to operate as an "independent subsidiary" when it was acquired in 2022, but that hasn't worked out.
I hate boss fights and you'll never convince me they're good (because they're not)
Gripes Week Boss fights are a tedious holdover from a long-ago era, and we'd all be better off without them.
Battlefield 6 producer insists the game's 'cool' and 'relatable' PMC villain and its quest to destroy the US has no deeper meaning: 'We needed two factions'
news Here we go again.
Humble Bundle's new Warner Bros. collection has 15 really good games, plus Suicide Squad, for just $12
news Arkham, Mortal Kombat, Injustice, Fear, and more—it's a really good deal from a time when Warner didn't suck.
My speakers automatically go into standby mode and it's driving me mad
Gripes Week These are very nice speakers, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to smash them into pieces with a hammer.
Indie horror game rejected by Steam releases for free instead: 'This is our response to being censored, and our rejection of the idea that horror can be defined as acceptable or not'
News Despite containing no uncensored nudity or sex acts, Vile: Exhumed was banned on Steam just ahead of its planned release in July.
