Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Project: Gorgon has recaptured the old-school MMO magic I thought was dead and gone by letting me ask a pig about its mother so hard it dies
SKILL ISSUE I have no idea how I'm going to get the Holistic Wellness or Civic Pride skills, but I am so excited to find out.
There could be a new God of War project involving new Kratos' voice actor Christopher Judge revealed 'late summer', but nobody should feel great about how that news broke
News "I have other projects that I am super excited about."
WoW dev was surprised that players 'like being jumped' by the upcoming Prey system—even on its hardest difficulty, where 'going AFK might get you killed'
News "Players really liked being ambushed."
WoW lead says they 'lost something along the way' by building dungeons for sweaty Mythic+ timers instead of 20-boss mazes like the good old days, but Labyrinths could be the solution
News "Labyrinths are trying to tap into [that]."
League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no
News You are not prepared.
WoW's classes were pruned for Midnight because many were 'built in a world' where its devs assumed they'd be using addons
News "We settled into an expectation."
Arc Raiders design director says players 'never worked together' in testing, but the emergence of care bear lobbies 'encourages us to lean toward giving opportunities to have friendly interactions'
News Catering to both PvE and PvP-heavy audiences is a "precarious position".
Deadlock's snazziest rich boy, Apollo, gets struck down by a bunch of nerfs after terrorising matches: 'Yoshi took him out back'
News Nerfed in Flawless Advance.
My next love after D&D, Pathfinder 2e, has a Fanatical bundle selling over $450's worth of books for around $15
News Dealfinder.
In its brave quest to never learn a single thing from science fiction, Meta has patented a literally ghoulish AI that keeps you posting long after you're dead and gone
News Don't worry, though, it's got "no plans to move forward with this example".
MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt
News "They are BOTH insane pathological narcissists," claims the investor.
I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead
LOCKED AWAY An RPG, an MMO, an FPS—I'll take anything, man.
Crimson Desert is made by the devs of MMO Black Desert, but it won't have any non-preorder microtransactions on launch: 'This is the premium experience, that is the transaction'
News Nary a cash shop in sight.
YouTuber hosts battle royale between 4 wizards from 4 different TTRPG systems—and boy does it end almost immediately, despite the DM's best efforts
News Pity the D&D wizard, who walked out of cover, cast Magic Missile on a goblin, and then got disintegrated.
Question time: What role—tank, healer, or DPS—do you actually play in MMORPGS, and why?
GROUP UP Party finder.
Hurry, you have less than 1 week to move to Norway and have a baby with someone: 'Lie together today, get GTA 6 free from us in 9 months'
News Note: Do not actually do this.
All of Deadlock's new heroes are now released—but please, pity the poor schmuck that spent anywhere between 252-378 hours pouring votes into Celeste, who came second to last
News That's around 13 hours of gaming a day for 19 days straight.
Arc Raiders had nearly 1 million concurrent players in January, and around 6 million 'weekly active users', claims Nexon—putting the extraction shooter on par with some of the biggest MMOs
News World of Arc-craft.
One of my favourite TTRPGs is releasing an expansion that goes from gothic horror heists to a psychedelic 60s sci-fi dystopia inspired by Deathloop, where the dead feed an oversaturated sky
News What's the Blades in the Dark equivalent of D&D's Spelljammer? The swingin' sixties, apparently.
Mewgenics has its very own Mr. Resetti that'll make 'a brain slushie' out of you and curse your cats if you save scum: 'No, seriously, I dish out IRL curses'
News Okay, I'll save my game, jeez!
Arrowhead wants Helldivers 2's assault on Cyberstan to really sell the promise of the Galactic War: 'We don't know how it will play out. We don't know if they will win'
News "We've tried to expand on this with almost every update to make this more impactful."
Deadlock releases the 5th hero in its new 6-hero lineup—Celeste, a floaty carnival performer with an ultimate that gives me war flashbacks to Dota 2
News Oh god. It's Lich again.
'It took about 5 years' for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that 'players actually liked the design choices we had made'
News Hindsight has about a 20% chance of scoring a headshot in VATS.
