Latest articles by Andy Chalk
'Please give it a chance': Brighter Shores studio asks players to have patience with its unusual progression system, promises it's actually a lot of fun 'once you get used to it'
news Some players have found the progression system in Brighter Shores to be off-putting, but Fen Research thinks it just hasn't been explained clearly enough.
Sony isn't giving up on PSN account requirement for PC games: Company president says it's necessary so people can 'safely' play its games
news Hiroki Totoki admitted the requirement invites "pushback" but Sony wants to maintain control over its games.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first patch adds some Mass Effect flair to your wardrobe
news Remember the Blood Dragon armor in Mass Effect 2? Now the roles are reversed.
Barney Calhoun goes to Xen in Black Mesa: Blue Shift's latest chapter, coming later this month
news Focal Point is set to launch on November 17.
Take-Two has sold Private Division to an unnamed buyer: 'We are top-ten hit makers around here,' and Private Division wasn't making them
news The publisher has also finally confirmed that Intercept Games and Roll7 are in fact closed.
Eric Barone issues emergency Stardew Valley performance PSA: 'Remove all hats from pets'
news Having performance problems following the 1.6 update? Blame the animals.
Arcane, Riot's two-season League of Legends animated series, reportedly cost $250 million to make
news That figure makes it the most expensive animated series ever produced.
As expected, Twitch has modified its new 'politics and sensitive social issues' rules, and nobody is happy with the changes
news Specific references to the LGBTQ+ community have been removed, but the updated guidelines are still too vague to be useful.
Two months after the disastrous Seekers of the Storm expansion, Gearbox details its Risk of Rain 2 rescue plan, and players are actually pretty excited
news Gearbox says it's going to take months to fix what it broke, but it's determined to make it happen.
Don't expect a big Mass Effect reveal this week: BioWare says N7 Day will be 'quieter' than previous years
news The launch of Dragon Age: The Veilguard apparently has the studio focused on other things.
Stardew Valley's latest update added a 'secret, experimental mobile multiplayer' mode, and you have to use the Konami code on a bunch of leaves to unlock it
news It's experimental and may not work well under some conditions, but Stardew multiplayer has now come to mobile devices.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first patch is coming later this week
news The first Veilguard update will include fixes, balance tweaks, and some "crash mitigations."
The fix to Destiny 2's 'Weightgate' scandal will be rolled out tomorrow, Bungie is going to say sorry by giving away god-roll guns to everyone
news One of Destiny 2's biggest, strangest controversies is coming to a close, and players are mostly happy with the payout.
Dragon Age boss says a Legendary Edition-style remaster of the old games in the series is unlikely because there's 'maybe 20 people left at BioWare' who know how their engine works
news Dragon Age: Origins and DA2 were built on the proprietary Eclipse engine, which hasn't been touched in over a decade.
Stardew Valley has a troublesome new 'disappearing chickens' bug, which Eric Barone is explaining away by declaring invisible coyotes are stealing them
news Missing some chickens? It's not a bug, it's, uhhh... coyotes! Invisible coyotes. Yeah, that's it.
Not content with finally getting Stardew Valley 1.6 live on all platforms, Eric Barone has piled a bunch of other new stuff on top of it in yet another big update
news Stardew Valley's 1.6.9 update adds a 'new friend' in the secret woods, new Easter eggs, and hidden cheat commands.
Star Wars Outlaws has a new creative director, promises more work on three 'key areas': Combat, stealth, and controls
news That's basically the whole game, right?
Twitch now requires a warning label for 'politics and sensitive social issues,' and it's going over exactly as well as you'd expect
news The new policy follows weeks of back-and-forth complaints about Islamophobia and antisemitism on the platform.
Another game is disappearing from Steam: Five years after its last update, Bethesda is closing its Elder Scrolls card game
news The Elder Scrolls: Legends has already been delisted, and will stop running at the end of January.
GTA Online's console-exclusive enhanced edition is finally coming to PC
news Rockstar says "the much-requested PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S features of GTA Online" will arrive on PC in 2025.
Stressing out waiting for Dragon Age: The Veilguard to download? Here's some Dragon Age ASMR to help mellow your mood
news Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the Arlathan Forest or the Necropolis, and relax.
Return of the Phantom, which is basically The Phantom of the Opera but with time travel, is free on GOG
news Halloween treat for the Halloween sale.
Apex Legends ditches Steam Deck support: EA says Linux is 'a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats'
news Access to the game on Linux-based systems is now blocked.
Matthew McConaughey is dropping daily Exodus trailers like some kind of deep space David Attenborough, and they have 100% convinced me to pay attention to this game
news Exodus is the new sci-fi RPG being led by BioWare veterans James Ohlen and Drew Karpyshyn, and even though we haven't seen any gameplay yet I'm very interested in what it's got going on.
