Latest articles by Andy Chalk
US government wants gamers to become air traffic controllers
news "It's not a game," transportation secretary Sean Duffy says: "Its [sic] a career!"
Pete Hines says he left Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it being 'damaged' and 'abused'
news Hines, Bethesda's former vice president of marketing and PR, left Bethesda in 2023, three years after it was acquired by Microsoft.
Former Bethesda exec thinks the studio should get more respect for the complex, open worlds it creates: 'Go try that s**t in Red Dead Redemption 2'
news Despite retiring 3 years ago, Pete Hines remains one of the studio's staunchest defenders.
PC Gamer's 'first can't-miss cozy game of 2026' has gone missing on Steam, and some players think Tetris is to blame
news This is the second weird thing to happen to Starsand Island since it launched in February.
Facepunch boss Garry Newman shoots down Rust 2 speculation after mysterious Steam page appears: 'Nope'
news I thought it might be, but it's not.
Nexon confirms reorganizaton at The First Berserker: Khazan developer but says it's merely 'a strategic reallocation of talent' as development winds down
news The shuffle is "not a workforce reduction or team dissolution," Nexon says, it just needs the people elsewhere.
Dune: Awakening is finally making Deep Desert and shipwreck PvP fully optional
news Self-hosted servers are coming too.
Gunzilla CEO denies delaying payments to 'full-time official employees,' denies calling unpaid contractors 'haters' (updated)
news At least one of former Gunzilla staffers who said she went months without being paid sure sounds like a full-time employee, though.
Co-op pirate survival game Windrose breaks 1.5 million Steam wishlists, and good news for everyone who's added it to their list: It's coming out next week
news The coming-very-soon release date was announced during the Triple I showcase.
Co-op heist-em-up Thick as Thieves reveals May release date with an all-new gameplay trailer
news Just a week after devs announced Thick as Thieves will not be a PvPvE game as originally planned, but will instead focus on solo and co-op play.
Split Fiction studio Hazelight celebrates selling 50 million games in under 10 years
news Hazelight's latest game, Split Fiction, actually contributes the smallest piece of that pie—but it's also only been out for a year.
Kerbal Space Program rockets to its highest concurrent player count on Steam in more than 10 years
news Space exploration is cool again.
Browsing the Steam Workshop's 50 million mods just got better thanks to a redesign that loads faster and works better on mobile and Steam Deck
news The week after rolling out a "refresh" for the Steam storefront, Valve is giving the Workshop some long-overdue love.
Keith David proves he can make anything sound incredibly cool as he delivers a dramatic reading masterclass in an ad for Starfield's latest DLC
news It's a big day for Starfield fans, but not for the reasons you might think.
The multiplayer shooter with radioactive attack bears and moose-drawn artillery is closing after less than a year in early access
news Striden developer 5 Fortress is closing its doors too.
MindsEye is a glitchy, incoherent mess I wouldn't recommend to anyone—and it might also be my favorite game of 2026
In defense of Look, it's complicated.
Slay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges 'to let you know what was unique about each adventure' in latest beta patch
news The update, available in the public beta branch, makes numerous reworks, tweaks, and fixes, and so far hasn't sparked nearly the level of backlash the last one got.
Get the Homeworld Remastered Collection, Deserts of Kharak, and 8 more RTS games for just $8
news Homeworld and Deserts of Kharak are worth the price of admission on their own.
'There's always the chance s**t hits the fan and we suffer another major setback,' Skyblivion lead says about the possibility of another delay, but 'from what I see internally I am pretty optimistic'
news The Skyblivion development team put out a new call for help earlier this week, and it led some (including me) to wonder if another delay is coming.
'There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else,' Samson studio founder says: 'I think there's a space for us there'
news Comparisons are inevitable, but Liquid Swords founder Christofer Sundberg sees his rough-and-tumble crime sim as a more of a side game than a GTA competitor.
State of Decay 3 springs back to life to announce alpha tests in May
news You can sign up now for a shot at access.
Petit Planet, the upcoming 'cozy galactic life sim' from HoYoVerse, is taking signups for a new beta test happening later this month
news There's still no release date, but it's getting closer.
The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool's joke from Games Workshop, and I don't care if it's a day late because it's just that good
news "Just because there is only war, doesn't mean there can't also be music."
