Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Get every Frictional horror game ever made—Penumbra, Amnesia, and SOMA—for just $15 in this screamingly good bundle
news Screamingly good—get it? Because you're going to scream, see. They're horror games. Really, really good horror games.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution could've had a track from the original game's composer but it was rejected for not being the 'right fit,' and in hindsight he says they were right
news Eidos Montreal wanted to put its own stamp on Deus Ex after it took over the series, and that meant it wanted music from an entirely different composer.
PUBG: Blindspot is closing after less than 2 months of early access
news The top-down PUBG spinoff hit Steam on February 5, but failed to find a sustainable audience.
'The industry's in a really horrible place,' Brenda Romero says: 'We were there in the '80s for the crash, and this is definitely crashier'
news Romero Games managed to scrape through an ugly 2025, but its founders remain unsure about where it's all headed.
V Rising studio is working on a new game, and it sounds like it's got teeth: 'The odyssey of the Vampire continues'
news Stunlock Studios says its ambitions have grown, and it needs a fresh start to fully realize them.
Alien Deathstorm is the very real title of the new 'action horror game' coming from Atomfall developer Rebellion
news It sounds like an ironic gag title from an early-aughts sitcom, but no, this is just how things are now.
That Hunter: The Reckoning game that was accidentally leaked on Steam is now officially revealed as a new FPS RPG
news Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish was announced, on purpose this time, in today's Xbox showcase.
Baldur's Gate 3 gets a new hotfix to fix the old hotfix that fixed corrupted saves but started causing crashes
news The patch released in February fixed some stuff, and also broke some different stuff.
Stalker 2's first major story expansion is coming this summer with two new regions and 'dozens of hours of gameplay'
news The "fragile peace" between two of the Zone's biggest factions may finally be over.
Serious Sam is being turned into a run-based roguelite multiplayer shooter later this year, and seriously—this one might not suck
news I promise nothing, but if any cult-classic FPS from the early 2000s has a shot at being turned into a good online shooter, it's Sam.
Splitgate studio 1047 Games is working on something new: 'If you're a fan of games like Titanfall or Black Ops 3, we would love to hear from you'
news CEO Ian Proulx says the studio hopes to begin playtesting soon.
Fortnite producer asks for patience as developers 'pick up the pieces' after massive layoffs: 'We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond'
news Epic laid off more than 1,000 employees yesterday as CEO Tim Sweeney says the company is still spending more than it's making.
Sony takes cancelling things to a whole new level by cancelling the car it was making with Honda
news The Afeela, unveiled at CES 2023 and slated to hit the road later this year, has fallen victim to a move away from EVs.
OpenAI discontinues Sora video generation app, Disney pulls out of $1 billion investment deal
news The shutdown of the app is reportedly part of a broader strategic shift away from video generation in favor of productivity apps.
Call of Duty veteran's new studio, which was just announced in 2025, is being closed by Sony
news A month after Sony closed Bluepoint Games, it looks like Jason Blundell's Dark Outlaw games, which was unveiled in March 2025, has met the same fate.
There's a new Payday game coming later this year, and it's VR
news Payday: Aces High is being developed by Fast Travel Games, whose previous releases include Cities: VR and Vampire: The Masquerade: Justice.
Epic is ending 3 Fortnite game modes following its latest round of layoffs: 'We failed to build something awesome enough to attract and retain a large player base'
news Rocket Racing, Ballistic, and Fortnite Festival Battle Stage are all being ended, and Epic is also removing Horizon Chase Turbo from sale.
Epic Games lays off more than 1,000 employees: 'We're spending significantly more than we're making,' CEO Tim Sweeney says
news Comparable cuts, for the same reason, happened in 2023.
Crimson Desert dev says it 'takes time' to get used to the game's notoriously clunky controls, but advises players to 'think of it like riding a bike, it comes naturally after you learn it'
news Practice makes perfect, eventually.
OpenTTD asks people to please stop being mad at Atari for forcing the game off Steam: 'OpenTTD as a project retains its full independence,' and you can still get it for free
news OpenTTD developer Owen Rudge says "Atari have worked collaboratively with us," and it also put up some cash to help cover the game's server costs.
Subnautica 2 chief says Krafton is still messing with him, because the May release date announcement was news to him and he's not happy about it
news Ted Gill's lawyers say the release date reveal, which he wasn't aware of, is "'further damaging the game and sowing additional confusion."
Hoarder is what happens when a Darkwood co-creator makes a cleaning simulator: Your job is to clean the abyss and 'no one is coming to save you'
news Hoarder is a bit like Powerwash Simulator, except you might be in a sort of Cthulhu-esque hell.
CD Projekt's mysterious Hadar is 'progressing dynamically,' which means we're at least one step closer to finding out what it is
news No word on the Witcher 3 expansion we've all been hoping for, but we did get some interesting news out of today's CD Projekt earnings report.
