Latest articles by Andy Chalk
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.
Lionsgate and Red Barrels are bringing 'the Outlast Universe' to the big screen
news That's right, the Outlast horror games are being made into a movie.
Steam now requires developers to tell people when their games have kernel mode anticheat
news Valve said developers and players have both been asking for better ways to disclose the presence of anticheat software in games, so here you go.
Despite making significant changes to survival game Nightingale, developer Inflexion Games says it hasn't been 'commercially successful enough' to avoid 'dozens' of layoffs
news Inflexion says it is now "restructuring" in Canada and closing its UK office outright.
A super-smart chimp and a rat with a Tamagotchi on his ass leading a lab animal jailbreak: It's not a Disney movie, it's an upcoming first-person horror game
News Animal Use Protocol is the new game coming from the makers of Stasis: Bone Totem.
Electronic Arts chief says Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a 'return to what made BioWare great'
news The new Dragon Age game isn't out for a couple days yet, but Andrew Wilson has great expectations.
I set $5 as an arbitrary maximum price while browsing GOG's Halloween Sale, and the number of good games I got genuinely surprised me
news GOG's big Halloween Sale is live now.
Blizzard is investigating claims that upcoming Hearthstone hero skins are AI generated
news The pixel art images, which were datamined earlier this month, have now been removed, although Blizzard still has not commented on whether they were AI generated.
Concord isn't coming back, and the developer is done for too: Sony says it considered its options and apparently 'the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio'
I was wrong: Concord isn't coming back, and neither is Firewalk Studios.
Comics legend Alan Moore calls out 'reflexive belligerence' of pop culture fandom: 'Fan attitudes have toxified the world'
news Moore, widely regarded as one of the great comic book writers of all time, shared some thoughts on the nature of fandom in a new essay.
The Oregon Trail, the game about breaking your arm and dying of dysentery, is being made into an 'action-comedy' movie with musical numbers
news I predict fart jokes.
Steam's big Halloween Sale returns for 2024, and it's live now
news Steam Scream 3D, with deep discounts on spooky, scary, and silly games, runs until November 4.
After more than 10 years on Steam, DayZ sets another new concurrent player record
news The Frostline expansion launched earlier this month and by all reports it's absolutely miserable, which is apparently what DayZ players want.
US copyright law 'forces researchers to explore extra-legal methods' for game preservation, say historians who are 'disappointed' after being denied a DMCA exemption
The Video Game History Foundation had proposed rule changes that would make it easier for researchers and archivist to legally access old games.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is effectively banned in Kuwait, so Activision is issuing refunds for pre-orders: 'We remain hopeful that local authorities will reconsider'
news Actvision's latest shooter isn't approved for release in Kuwait.
Do you want to go to Boston? Because CD Projekt is looking for people to come to its studio to help test some new stuff
news CD Projekt's on-site testing program is now available in the US.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's launch trailer brings a summer blockbuster vibe to BioWare's newest RPG
news I don't know what's happening, but it's definitely happening.
Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs'
News Prince of Persia: The Lost Throne was a critical hit but didn't sell very well, and Michael Douse thinks that's entirely Ubisoft's fault.
