Latest articles by Andy Chalk
An unannounced Hogwarts Legacy expansion and 'definitive edition' have reportedly been cancelled
news Warner's ongoing restructuring has claimed more victims.
Assassin's Creed Shadows puts up the 'second highest day-one sales revenue in Assassin's Creed franchise history'
news Ubisoft says the newest Assassin's Creed game has now surpassed three million players.
Ubisoft and Tencent are forming a new company that will take control of its most successful franchises: Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six
news Tencent will be a minority shareholder in the new venture, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.
Greedfall 2 aims to turn around a disastrous early access launch with a combat overhaul and a big new boat
news The first major update to the struggling Greedfall 2 is live now.
Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics lays off 17 employees 'to better align our current business needs and the studio's future success'
news Crystal Dynamics is currently working on a new Tomb Raider game and is also co-developing a Perfect Dark reboot.
Pillars of Eternity is getting turn-based combat to mark its 10th anniversary, and that means PC Gamer editors will soon be arguing about combat mechanics again
news Pillars of Eternity is 10 years old, but the fight over turn-based versus real-time with pause is much, much older.
It doesn't really make sense that soccer star Ronaldo is now a Fatal Fury character, but if you follow the money you can see how it happened
news What do a Portuguese soccer player and a Japanese fighting game have in common? Two words: Saudi Arabia.
A new Game of Thrones RPG is coming to Steam today with a cast of 'familiar faces,' which is good because it's really the only way to tell it's a GoT game at all
news Game of Thrones: Kingsroad will eventually be free to play, but if you want to get in on early access it'll cost you.
Assassin's Creed Shadows' first hotfix addresses stability issues and a photo mode crash
news The launch of the new Assassin's Creed has gone pretty well, but there are always things to do.
CD Projekt says it's not using generative AI on The Witcher 4 because it's 'quite tricky when it comes to legal IP ownership'
news The studio may look into gen AI if and when the legal landscape becomes clearer, but for now it's staying away.
The Witcher 4 won't be out until sometime in 2027 at the soonest, CD Projekt says
news We don't know when it will release, but at least now we know when it won't.
Pacific Drive developers change their mind: A year after refusing to give it mid-run saves, it's getting mid-run saves
news The new feature will be added in April as part of Pacific Drive's "largest update" ever.
As Civilization 7 struggles to keep up with Civ 5 player counts, a new patch is coming tomorrow with still more UI changes and gameplay tweaks
news Firaxis is still banging away at it.
Assassin's Creed Shadows streamer goes viral after confronting whining commenters: 'Normal people don't get upset about this sh***'
news When things started to go sideways in an AC Shadows stream, FightinCowboy dropped the hammer in a hurry—and then took time to explain why.
'This is just the beginning': Assassin's Creed Shadows dev team thanks fans for their support and promises more to come in the future
news Assassin's Creed Shadows developers "just want to say thank you."
Nearly 2 years after its last update, the excellent Battle Brothers gets 'a bucket load of fixes' and free new content
news Eight years after launch, people are still playing Battle Brothers, and developers are still working on it.
Split Fiction is reportedly at the center of a bidding war for its movie rights
news Media company Story Kitchen is heading up the effort to bring Split Fiction to the big screen.
Bethesda marks Oblivion's 19th with a sweetroll, a candle, and absolutely no happy birthday gift for fans eager for the still-unannounced remaster
news At least they remembered, I suppose.
Painkiller is back, and maybe they'll finally get it right this time
news The latest addition to the demon-killing FPS series looks the part, but it makes some pretty big changes too.
After suspending development in 2024, People Can Fly brings Project Victoria back to life as survival-extraction shooter Lost Rift
news Lost Rift is coming to early access on Steam.
'Humans still surpass machines': Roblox has been using a machine learning voice chat moderation system for a year, but in some cases you just can't beat real people
news Yup, we're still good for something.
Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'
news Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.
