Latest articles by Andy Chalk
CCP Games is no more: EVE Online studio changes its name as it goes independent and enters an AI research partnership with Google DeepMind
news An offline version of EVE Online will serve as a testbed for new AI research.
Microsoft ends Copilot AI on Xbox to help 'get the business back on track,' as new CEO simultaneously welcomes AI executives into the fold
news Asha Sharma has appointed a number of her former fellows from Microsoft's CoreAI division to leadership positions at Xbox.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced combat will be 'more demanding' than the original
news Ubisoft has revealed modernized movement and combat systems that it says "honor the foundations of the original game while enhancing the experience for an action-adventure game."
Bank of America thinks Take-Two should charge more for Grand Theft Auto 6
news It's for the good of the games industry, you see.
Randy Pitchford says Gearbox has a firm no-AI policy after posting an AI-generated image of an AI working at Gearbox
news Randy just wanted to have a little fun, but it didn't work out so well.
Gabe Newell makes surprise appearance in an ad for the yacht company he bought last year, riding around in his $500 million boat
news Are you in the market for a superyacht? Maybe Gabe can help.
PC players aren't Grand Theft Auto 6's 'core' audience, Take-Two CEO says, and that's why we have to wait for it
news Zelnick said going to consoles first is a matter of "serving the core consumer," but he also said PC can account for half of a big game's sales these days, so I don't get it.
GameStop confirms $56 billion eBay acquisition bid, promises $2 billion in cuts at the company if the takeover is successful
news How GameStop will actually be able to pay for the much larger eBay is not entirely clear at this point.
Hit cowboy co-op shooter's servers are struggling, developer says its service provider 'is currently drinking mojitos instead of helping'
news Is it a serious complaint? Perhaps not. It is pretty funny, though.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era sold 250,000 copies and 'broke even on development costs' in 1 day
news Not a bad start for an old school strategy game.
The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories
news Only roles "demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be eligible for awards.
Indie dev apologizes for rough game launch, commits to turning it around: 'The critique is fair ... we got work to do'
news Industria 2 looks great, but the general consensus is that it wasn't ready for launch.
The new 'Xbox mode' for Windows 11 has arrived, but don't get your hopes up for performance improvements: it's just a new UI
news The "dedicated gaming experience" for WIndows 11 is now rolling out in "select markets."
I played the MindsEye mission about the alleged game saboteurs, and it sucks so bad
news The mission is dull and witless, and the promised "evidence" of sabotage against developer Build a Rocket Boy utterly fails to materialize.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who took the job less than 3 months ago, says 'player and revenue growth has not yet met our ambition' as Microsoft gaming continues to slide
news I mean, yeah. No kidding.
Finally, someone is making a TV show based on a videogame that I actually want to watch
news Sure, Fallout is cool, but have you ever played Atomfall?
Chinese-made soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, set in historical China, is now owned by... Italians?
news The property was purchased by 505 Games parent company Digital Bros., following the reported dissolution of original developer Leenzee.
S&box makes nearly $1 million on launch day, and yes there are problems but that's okay: 'We love it when things break because then we get to fix them'
news Facepunch says S&box launch day went "pretty much exactly as expected."
Starbreeze hasn't declared Payday 3 dead yet, but it's launching yet another spin-off this year—this time on Roblox
news Word of the untitled project comes just a couple months after the announcement of a Payday VR game.
6 weeks after releasing Greedfall: The Dying World, famed eurojank studio Spiders is closing
news Spiders is a victim of Nacon's insolvency woes.
The Thick as Thieves campaign will be 'at least four hours' in length, which is pretty short, but on the upside it's a whole lot cheaper than I ever would've guessed
news This is not making me feel better about the whole thing.
'Obviously we love the PC,' Gabe Newell told us 15 years ago, but his focus was on 'a responsibility to gamers and game developers'
news Sony boosts PlayStation and Microsoft promotes Xbox, but the Valve boss said Steam takes a slightly different approach.
