Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Europe's game rating agency takes aim at in-app purchases, loot boxes, and 'unrestricted communication' with new 'interactive risk categories'
news New PEGI categories coming in June could see the age ratings for some games take a jump up.
Valve says New York Attorney General's violent videogame fearmongering is 'a distraction and a mischaracterization we’ve all heard before'
news The New York AG seems to be trying to stir up fears about violent videogames as the state pursues legal action against Valve, but Valve isn't having it.
Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: 'The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers'
news The state of New York sued Valve in February over allegations of illegal gambling.
Former Highguard dev who called out grave-dancing over the reveal trailer says the discourse 'had some very dark corners that may have accelerated the timeline of our failure,' but adds, 'it wasn't the primary cause'
news Highguard closes for good tomorrow, less than two months after it launched.
More than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek's big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing
news My.Games is pulling the plug on two online shooters with two very different histories.
Former EA chief Peter Moore says his game industry style of PR irritated his bosses at Liverpool FC, and that's partly why he's not the CEO of Liverpool FC anymore
news "I felt that not being cold and distant, which the football club was with absentee American owners, was the way to go. My American owners did not agree."
Mega Man 11 actor won't return for the next game in the series because Capcom refuses to work under a union contract
news The SAG-AFTRA union has issued a "do not work" order against the upcoming Mega Man: Dual Override.
Tim Cain says he got hired at Interplay because he knew THAC0 better than the other guy, and went out of his way to prove it
news You never know where things will lead.
Fortnite's V-Bucks are about to get more expensive because 'the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot'
news Epic says running a game like Fortnite costs a lot of money, and somebody's gotta cover it.
Valve facing second, class-action lawsuit over loot boxes
news The consumer lawsuit comes just over a week after a similar suit filed by the state of New York.
3 months after revealing his debut project at The Game Awards, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi loses NetEase funding for his studio
news Nagoshi Studio is trying to find someone to step into the breach, but so far it's had no luck.
One of my favorite Daedalic point-and-click adventures is free on Steam, and a pile of others have been marked way down
news If you like adventure games, you're going to like this.
Battlefield 6 was 'the biggest launch in franchise history.' 6 months later, EA is laying off people who made it
news "Battlefield remains one of our biggest priorities."
Counter-Strike's 'X-ray scanner' for loot containers is coming to Germany later this month
news CS2 players in Germany will soon be able to see what's inside containers before purchasing them—but it's not really the boon it sounds like.
It's a happy ending for the artist whose work was stolen by Bungie and used in Marathon: She's credited in the game as 'visual design consultant'
news The important in-game credit hopefully comes on top of a substantial amount of money from Bungie.
Valve nixes less confident Steam Machine language, recommits to 2026 release
news Valve has edited the blog post that kicked off speculation.
'Ah s**t, here we go again': White House uses videogame clips to promote its war in Iran, including CJ's iconic line from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
news There's also some Call of Duty in there, and a bit of Pokémon for good measure.
In what may be the worst new game reveal ever, Robocop: Rogue City was briefly replaced on Steam by an unannounced World of Darkness game
news Well, that's one way to do it.
Epic Games is suing one of its former contract workers, alleging that he is notorious Fortnite leaker AdiraFN
news AdiraFN spilled the beans on numerous Fortnite crossovers, using information Epic claims he discovered while working for the company under NDA.
The next Xbox is codenamed Project Helix, and it will 'play your Xbox and PC games'
news New Microsoft Gaming chief Asha Sharma says she's looking forward to talking more about the next Xbox console "with partners and studios" at GDC next week.
Ruiner 2 promises to evolve the original top-down shooter 'into a deep, systems-driven action RPG'
news After nearly a decade of waiting, Ruiner is finally getting a sequel.
Helldivers 2's big beefy build is going away for good, because Arrowhead is 'confident that players are having a great experience' with the new skinny version
news Thin is in.
US government reportedly debating whether to force Tencent to give up its US-based game holdings
news The process began during the first Trump administration, and is apparently now picking up steam.
MindsEye studio claims it now has 'overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage' that somehow made its game bad, and also it's laying off more people
news This would all be kind of amusing if it wasn't for the facts that more game developers are losing their jobs.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is back: 3 years after it was muscled out by Counter-Strike 2, CS:GO has its own Steam page again and has powered its way back onto Steam's most-played chart
news CS:GO was subsumed into Counter-Strike 2 a few years ago, but now it has its own Steam page again.
