Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Game publisher caught using AI-generated influencers in ads says they were submitted by TikTok users, will investigate 'irregularities' with the social media app
news A series of promos for The First Descendant features influencers taking up the game's new season—but they're not real.
Robocop: Rogue City, which I admit I was completely wrong about, is just $5 in the Humble Store Summer Sale
news There are a lot of really good deals in this year's Humble Summer Sale, but Robocop for a fiver is surely one of the best.
Louisiana sues Roblox over child safety concerns: 'It's basically open season for sex predators on this platform'
news More trouble for Roblox.
I had low expectations for this upcoming FMV 'interactive horror' game, but its hour-long demo turned out to be one of the most entertaining things I've played all year
news Dead Reset—the demo, at least—is a genuine hoot.
Bongo Cat, still one of the biggest games on Steam, gets even bigger with multiplayer: You can now have up to 100 cats on your screen at once, all of them happily bapping away as their owners type
news Bongo Cat got friends.
Steam store pages just got thicker than Emma Frost's thighs
news I don't know if the new Steam layout will save lives, but I think it looks better.
Roblox explains crackdown on 'vigilantes' after ban of a popular YouTuber sparks furor: 'They are acting in ways that could be harmful to others, both on and off our platform'
news A YouTuber who claims to hunt and expose predators in Roblox was banned earlier this month, and some parts of the community have not taken it well.
Rematch's latest update aims to fix 'major netcode releases' including missed tackles and false goals, crossplay will 'hopefully' go live by the end of August
news The second big Rematch patch is now live in Steam beta and expected to roll into the full game on Monday.
Marvel Rivals director says its 'gooner game' reputation really just reflects a commitment to authenticity: 'These all come from classic comic designs'
news I'm not so sure about this one.
Pity poor Capcom: Monster Hunter Wilds' latest patch introduced a new crash bug, developers are working on it and 'will provide further updates when we have them'
news Capcom just can't catch a break.
I think Dungeons and Dragons peaked in 1982 and that's why I can't wait to play this 'hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler' coming next year
news I apologize for nothing.
'This year seems shakier than ever,' BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says, and live service games are a big part of the reason—but Grand Theft Auto 6 might force the industry to change
news 2024 was miserable, but somehow 2025 is even worse.
Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'
news The problem first came to light about a month ago, but Valve has only now offered an explanation.
Take-Two boss is really very confident that Grand Theft Auto 6 won't be delayed again: 'My level of conviction is very, very high'
news Anything can happen, but Strauss Zelnick is a believer.
Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: 'We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza'
news Members of the STJV union at Arkane have published an open letter calling for an immediate termination of the company's contracts with the IDF.
Krafton fires back at Unknown Worlds lawsuit, says Subnautica 2 was at risk of causing 'irreversible harm to the entire franchise' like Kerbal Space Program 2
news Krafton says the former heads of Unknown Worlds were fired with cause to keep them from "permanently damaging Unknown Worlds' most valuable IP."
Fae Farm announces the looming end of online play on Steam, and disappears entirely from Epic, but Phoenix Labs is still around
news The cozy farming sim will still be playable offline, but support for co-op play—on Steam, at least—is ending in September.
Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a 'Mage of the Way' who battles injustice and corruption in ancient Korea
news Details are scant, but Woochi the Wayfarer's announcement teaser is pretty slick.
The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content
news Google and OpenAI can scrape Reddit's content, but they paid for it.
Take-Two boss says Civilization 7 projections 'are very consistent with our initial expectations' despite its rough start: 'The key thing is that Civ has always been a slow burn'
news Civ games traditionally have a long time and Strauss Zelnick believes Civ 7 will too.
The Tencent survival game being sued by Sony quietly purges most Horizon-like content from its Steam page, bumps release date to late 2027
news It looks very much like Tencent does not want to tangle with Sony on this one.
Diablo boss Rod Fergusson is leaving Blizzard for a 'new adventure'
news Fergusson joined Blizzard in 2020 after a long career as head of Gears of War studio The Coalition.
Less than 2 months after releasing Tron: Catalyst, developer Bithell Games lays off the majority of full-time staff
news Studio boss Mike Bithell said the team was unable to land a "new larger scale project" to work on.
