Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Pacific Drive developers change their mind: A year after refusing to give it mid-run saves, it's getting mid-run saves
news The new feature will be added in April as part of Pacific Drive's "largest update" ever.
As Civilization 7 struggles to keep up with Civ 5 player counts, a new patch is coming tomorrow with still more UI changes and gameplay tweaks
news Firaxis is still banging away at it.
Assassin's Creed Shadows streamer goes viral after confronting whining commenters: 'Normal people don't get upset about this sh***'
news When things started to go sideways in an AC Shadows stream, FightinCowboy dropped the hammer in a hurry—and then took time to explain why.
'This is just the beginning': Assassin's Creed Shadows dev team thanks fans for their support and promises more to come in the future
news Assassin's Creed Shadows developers "just want to say thank you."
Nearly 2 years after its last update, the excellent Battle Brothers gets 'a bucket load of fixes' and free new content
news Eight years after launch, people are still playing Battle Brothers, and developers are still working on it.
Split Fiction is reportedly at the center of a bidding war for its movie rights
news Media company Story Kitchen is heading up the effort to bring Split Fiction to the big screen.
Bethesda marks Oblivion's 19th with a sweetroll, a candle, and absolutely no happy birthday gift for fans eager for the still-unannounced remaster
news At least they remembered, I suppose.
Painkiller is back, and maybe they'll finally get it right this time
news The latest addition to the demon-killing FPS series looks the part, but it makes some pretty big changes too.
After suspending development in 2024, People Can Fly brings Project Victoria back to life as survival-extraction shooter Lost Rift
news Lost Rift is coming to early access on Steam.
'Humans still surpass machines': Roblox has been using a machine learning voice chat moderation system for a year, but in some cases you just can't beat real people
news Yup, we're still good for something.
Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'
news Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.
A pair of Split Fiction players will be heading to Sweden for an early look at Hazelight's next game after completing a secret challenge so tough, some developers can 'barely' beat it
news Hazelight boss Josef Fares said it, and apparently he meant it.
Here's how to watch the Future Games Show 2025 Spring Showcase
news This year's showcase will feature more than 50 games, with world premieres, new trailers, developer interviews, and more.
Game developers launch North America's first industry-wide union 'to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status'
news United Videogame Workers was announced today as a local of the Communications Workers of America.
Hasbro will be ready to share news about the future of Baldur's Gate 'in pretty short order'
news Larian is finished with Baldur's Gate, but Hasbro sure isn't.
I'm creeped out by this trailer for a generative AI game about people using an AI-powered app to solve violent crimes in the year 2028 that somehow isn't a cautionary tale
news Developer Wolf Games is backed by the creative minds behind Law and Order and the One Chicago shows, because of course it is.
There's a new Portal game and it costs $12,500
news Valve's famous puzzle games are now available in pinball form, and it's really not cheap.
Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio
news Jason Blundell's new operation is called Dark Outlaw Games.
Ubisoft reportedly has an anti-harassment plan in place for Assassin's Creed Shadows developers
news The leadup to the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows has been very ugly, and Ubisoft is bracing for launch day.
Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have
news This could be a little confusing—the new flick will apparently go back to the 1959 Robert Heinlein novel.
Ubisoft is reportedly talking to Tencent about creating a new business entity to manage Assassin's Creed and other big games
news Nothing is finalized yet, but it sounds like Ubisoft is moving toward some kind of new deal that could involve Tencent.
Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam
Star Wars: Hunters debuted on the Nintendo Switch in June 2024 and a Steam release was announced in November, but now the whole thing is off.
Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread 'false and defamatory rumors' of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close
news Possibility Space was closed in 2024 under mysterious circumstances, and the rest of Jeff and Annie Strain's Prytania Media followed not long after.
