Andy Chalk
Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.
Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Phil Spencer says he's open to bringing stores like Epic and Itch.io to Xbox consoles
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news Could PC digital storefronts end up on Xbox? Apparently anything is possible.
Ken Levine reveals why everyone hates you so much in Judas
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news 11 years after closing Irrational, Levine is finally opening up about his next game.
Ukraine recreates famous lost salt mine in Minecraft 'to tell the world about their history and struggle for freedom'
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news Minesalt aims to teach players about the history of what was once the largest salt producer in Europe.
Remedy's multiplayer Control spinoff won't be free to play: expect a 'lower initial price' followed by live service updates
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news The studio offered up a new look at the upcoming four-player PvE game in its latest financial report.
Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it
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news It's the 30th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, the game that started it all.
Industria 2 is 'a narrative FPS to its core,' but its first-ever trailer is giving me real Half-Life 2 vibes
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news We don't go to Ravenholm, so what the hell are we doing here?
Preserving old games was seen as a non-commercial 'art project' until recently, says Nightdive director: 'They were great then and they're great now, and companies have begun to realize that'
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news Nightdive's Stephen Kick and Larry Kuperman shared their thoughts on the importance of videogame history in an interview with PC Gamer at GDC.
Arkane founder teases his next project, a 'retro sci-fi first-person' game, and now I'm thinking a whole lot about the Prey sequel we never got
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news WolfEye Studios is working on something new, and it sounds vaguely familiar.
Bungie perma-bans Destiny 2 players who sent racist abuse to one of its developers during a livestream this week
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news The hateful messages were sent after a Steam ID was accidentally revealed during the first Into The Light showcase.
Harold Halibut, the stop-motion-style story about life at the bottom of an alien ocean, gets a big new trailer and an April release date
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news The tale of friendship, home, and a guy just doin' his best will finally be out on April 16.
Larian is finished with Baldur's Gate: 'We're going to move away from D&D and we're going to start making a new thing'
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news Larian boss Swen Vincke said the studio's ambitions are too big, and life is too short, to be making Baldur's Gate 3 expansions.
Margot Robbie's production company is making a movie based on The Sims
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news Sul sul! Shooflee!
'America's hero, dancing around in red white and blue underwear': Black Panther trash-talks the Cap in the first trailer for Amy Hennig's WW2 Marvel game
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news Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, as it's now officially known, will be out in 2025.
Watch a bunch of game developers screaming in a public park to protest the state of the industry: 'It feels hard to be here and pretend like everything is fine'
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news Amidst the excitement of GDC, dozens of developers shared a moment of pure catharsis.
Diablo 4's loot rework PTR begins on April 2, season 3 extended until mid-May 'to ensure that we get all the feedback'
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news Players have been calling for a PTR for Diablo 4's new seasons, and they're finally getting one.
The Art of Rally developer is trying something different: An F1 management game set in the 'golden era' of 1970s excess
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news Golden Lap is set to launch later this year.
Starfield's latest update doesn't add any new content, but it does fix a galaxy-sized list of bugs
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news The 1.10.31 update makes improvements to the photo mode and scanner usage, but it's the sheer volume of fixes and tweaks that's really noteworthy.
Ubisoft shows off AI-powered 'Neo NPCs' at GDC: 'It could be the start of a fantastic paradigm shift,' but let's be honest, it probably won't
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news Ubisoft has big dreams for AI.
Stardew Valley's 1.6 update is finally live, and Eric Barone wasn't kidding: it is massive
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news It's here, and it's huge.
Here's a two-minute clip from the Fallout TV series: Walton Goggins terrorizes senior citizens and a Vault dweller gets in over her head
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news The Brotherhood of Steel drops in to save the day—or does it?
The Riven remake, with new content and VR support in Unreal Engine 5, promises 'an homage to its roots and a leap into the future'
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news The long-awaited update to the sequel to Myst will be out later this year.
Eric Barone goes mad with power: He's revealing a single Stardew Valley update patch note every day
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news Lord Acton was right.
Valve is improving how Steam Family Sharing works—but if your brother gets banned for cheating, so do you
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news The good news is, Steam Families will finally let users on the account play games simultaneously.
Easy Anti-Cheat washes its hands of the Apex Legends hacking disaster that saw streamer accounts hijacked live: 'There is no RCE vulnerability within EAC'
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news The North American finals of the Apex Legends Global Series was postponed after two matches suffered hacks.
Eric Barone drops the biggest Stardew Valley 1.6 update patch note yet: A new Meadowlands farm type with 'chewy blue grass that animals love' and some bonus chickens too
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news One day before the release of the Stardew Valley 1.6 update, Eric Barone has dropped the biggest patch note yet.