Latest articles by Andy Chalk
As Rainbow Six Siege X numbers continue to slide, Ubisoft promises to crack down on cheaters and 'prioritize a fun experience' with future balance changes
news Game director Joshua Mills and creative director Alex Karpazis admit they "haven't communicated clearly enough about what we've been working on" since the game went free to play.
Kentucky sues Roblox, calling it 'a playground for predators who seek to harm our children'
news Two months after Roblox was sued by Louisiana, the state of Kentucky has jumped in.
The original System Shock 2 is being removed from sale later this week
news All current and future owners of the 25th Anniversary remaster will get the original edition for free, but it will no longer be available for separate purchase.
Today's Steam outage may have been part of a massive DDoS attack targeting Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and other game companies
news It sure looks like something funky is going on.
Game Pass subscribers 'in certain countries' will not be affected by the price increase, at least 'for now,' because sometimes government regulation is actually a good thing
news Users in seven countries including Germany, Ireland, Korea, and Poland will continue to roll along at the old price, as long as they have a recurring subscription.
Elon Musk's AI-fuelled fever dream gets even hotter as he promises his AI game studio is going to release a 'great' game before the end of 2026
news Can't wait.
Netflix reveals The Witcher season 4 debut date with a new trailer, but more importantly: Everyone's got fantastic hair
news Geralt's putting together a team, and they look great.
Unreal mastermind Cliff Bleszinski really likes this fan-made Redux remaster: 'Time for a new generation to learn that Unreal isn't just an engine'
news It's a certified CliffyB thumbs-up.
Ubisoft reveals the surprise free Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC, which just coincidentally happens to be set in a region the Saudi government wants to turn into an 'economic powerhouse'
news Now it's starting to make sense.
Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders is closing as part of Funcom's post-Dune: Awakening layoffs
news Funcom announced the layoffs last week, just a few months after "the biggest release" in the company's history.
As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'
news When you're right, you're right.
All-women Counter-Strike 2 pro league ESL Impact will halt operations at the end up its upcoming finals
news ESL, which was acquired by Saudi Arabia in 2022 for $1.5 billion, says ESL Impact's "current economic model is simply not sustainable."
Kingmakers, the game about bringing modern weapons to medieval battlefields, gets delayed just 5 days ahead of launch, and there's no new release date
news Well, this is odd.
As the videogame industry continues to be hammered by layoffs, Netflix is offering up to $840,000 per year for a new Director of Generative AI for Games
news Less than a year after laying off employees at Oxenfree studio Night School, Netflix is putting big cash on the table for someone to do whatever this is.
The new Humble Bundle is a wild mix of Warhammer games for just $12
news It's Waaaghtober!, and you know what that means.
Amnesia creator Frictional Games teases its next game, and it may be something new but it sure feels like SOMA
news Welcome to Hotel Samsara.
Starbreeze lays off a bunch more people as it cancels its co-op D&D game and shifts focus to building Payday 3 into a 'modern live-engagement game'
news The videogame industry strikes again.
Henry Cavill bares rippling chest, powerful triceps, and deep-cut Planescape: Torment knowledge in new photo that inspires one PC Gamer editor to declare, 'He just like me fr'
news None of that headline is untrue.
Game Pass gets major price hike 'to offer more flexibility, choice, and value,' Microsoft says with a completely straight face
news The once unbeatable deal is starting to look a little iffy.
Dune Awakening was 'the biggest release' in Funcom's 32-year history, so you can probably guess what comes next in this rotten world: layoffs
news Yet more proof that making a hit game offers no protection.
Ubisoft's new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a 'creative house' that will take over development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six
news Vantage Studios is the first of multiple new studios Ubisoft and Tencent plan to launch in the future.
Team Fortress 2 Classic, the throwback version of Valve's famed team-based shooter, is having an open beta on Steam in October
news A Steam version of the outstanding TF2 mod was announced earlier this year, and very soon we'll all be able to play it.
The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski says one of CD Projekt's big story points is actually based on a mistake, but 'videogame people have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity'
news The idea of different witcher schools is based on an errant sentence that Sapkowski said is "unworthy of development and narratively incorrect."
2 months after halting work on its latest project, Just Cause developer Avalanche is closing its Liverpool studio and laying off employees in Malmö and Stockholm
news Avalanche, which halted work on Contraband following Microsoft's massive layoffs in July, says the closure and cuts are necessary "in light of current challenges to our business and the industry."
