Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Two years after unveiling a new studio aimed at building 'the next big thing in gaming,' Netflix has closed it down
news Team Blue was led by industry veterans including Chacko Sonny and Joseph Staten, but it never got off the ground.
PvPvE is 'a holy grail of game design,' says Space Marine 2 director, and he's got no plans to chase it: 'A lot of studios are trying to find it and a lot of them fail'
news Sure, it sounds good on paper, but in reality the whole thing would be a massive headache with no good payoff, says the game director.
Blade Runner 2049 producers sue Elon Musk, Tesla, and Warner over AI-generated image used in Cybercab promotional event
news Alcon Entertainment refused to grant permission to use Blade Runner 2049 images in the event, so Tesla used an AI-generated fake instead.
Hi-Rez Studios is closing 2 games as it continues to refocus on Smite 2
news Realm Royale Reforged and Divine Knockout will both be gone early in 2025.
Space Marine 2's free 4K texture pack takes up more space than the entire base game, and you're gonna need some serious hardware to run it
news The recommended spec for Space Marine 2 isn't going to cut it.
Fallout: London's latest patch makes more than 1,000 fixes and changes: 'The mod should be as solid as a rock'
news The 1.02 patch promises to make "a massive difference" for players.
The maker of an Assassin's Creed Shadows statue featuring a one-legged torii says the design was 'insensitive' and will be changed
news The one-legged torii in the collectible bears a striking resemblance to a monument to the nuclear attack on Nagasaki.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii moves its launch up by a week to avoid being hunted by a monster
news It turns out that the original release date was already occupied.
Fullbright drops a surprise horror game on Steam, and it's all about giant spiders hiding in disgusting toilets
news I would simply never use a toilet again.
Nidhogg studio 're-reveals' its new project: A stylish action-exploration game where you race bicycles and save the world
news Wheel World is set to arrive in 2025, with Annapurna Interactive still publishing.
Remedy's multiplayer Control spinoff looks even weirder than I expected: A co-op FPS where you shoot goo and garden gnomes at murderous monsters from another dimension
news FBC: Firebreak was officially unveiled at today's Xbox showcase and is slated to come out in 2025.
Arma 4 finally has a release target, and I'm sorry to say you're going to be playing Grand Theft Auto 6 for two years before it comes out
news Three years? Three years.
Sony's failed shooter Concord has been updated dozens of times on Steam in October, and I'm starting to feel a comeback
news There's a whole lot of activity going on for a game that's supposedly dead.
Asmongold steps back from OTK and says 'I need to fix my f***ing life' after racist rant about Palestinians: 'I have been slowly devolving into the most mean-spirited, rude, nasty, callous, psychopathic version of myself'
news The streamer says his life has spun out of control and he's making changes to bring things back to normal—but not too many changes, apparently.
IO Interactive's James Bond game will feature a young 007 'that the gamers can call their own'
news James Bond is a well-established character but even so, IO Interactive aims to do something new with it.
Riot Games lays off more employees but says the League of Legends team will be 'even larger' in the future
news Riot says the cuts are "about making sure we have the right expertise so that League continues to be great."
Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the BBS and internet pioneer, has died
news Christensen co-developed the world's very first computer bulletin board system, and also created the popular XMODEM file transfer protocol.
Asmongold suspended from Twitch following racist tirade about Palestinians
news The ban was applied to Asmongold's secondary account, but it means he's not allowed to stream on his primary channel either.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't have Denuvo, but that means it also won't have a preload period on PC
News The monkey's paw strikes again.
RuneScape developer Jagex is making an open world survival game, and it's looking for testers
news A closed alpha test for the RuneScape survival game is on the way.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
Elon Musk shows off bartending robots at a recent Tesla event, but some attendees say the automatons were being controlled by people
news The Optimus robot "can be a teacher or babysit your kids," Musk promised, which strikes me as a terrible idea even if it's true.
CD Projekt boss pushes back on 'conspiracy theories' against diversity in gaming: 'We live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it'
news Joint CEO Michał Nowakowski isn't having it.
