Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Confession time: How long do you stick it out before you abandon a terrible MMO dungeon/raid group?
LEAVE GROUP If it sucks, do you hit da bricks?
Why I love player housing in MMOs
SWEET HOME A little slice of ownership in a massively multiplayer world.
Divinity's trailer is cool, but I suspect Larian's body-horror Burning Man splatfest doesn't set an accurate tone for the full game—and if I'm right, it'll be weird that it's happened twice
BODY ODY EW-Y Hey, cinematic designers—you guys okay?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers are so thankful for the awards, they dropped a big stonking DLC for free that you can go play right now, with some clutch quality-of-life updates, too
News C'est généreux!
New Magic: The Gathering infinite combo is just making The Hulk step on caltrops over and over until he's mad enough to win
News Honestly, a reasonable crashout.
Blizzard sees players levitating their homes in WoW's player housing, 'even though there weren’t UI controls for that', decides it's now a feature, not a bug
News Also, the exterior decor limit will be increased.
Square Enix hit with a brutal 100-slide presentation from one of its shareholders about alleged mismanagement, other shareholders asked to pitch in with 'frank views'
News Ouch.
World of Warcraft players are already discovering new tech with its player housing—turns out, you can sit anywhere as long as you're able to fit a chair inside
News No, I don't need to rephrase that headline. You're wrong, actually.
Baldur's Gate 3 fan discovers the game has nearly 237 hours of spoken dialogue in it—and a whopping 14 hours are narrator Amelia Tyler's alone, though Astarion gives her a run for her money
News Yapper's Gate.
I've been roleplaying in MMORPGs like WoW for 16 years, it's the reason I'm here writing this headline—and there's never been a better time to try it out yourself
PEOPLE PRACTICE Go be cringe in World of Warcraft, it's good for the soul.
WoW's new player housing feature's been out in early access for less than a week, and players have already made battleships, dollhouses, and large hadron colliders
News Light be, what is happening in there?!
Todd Howard says that the Fallout franchise is 'a cautionary tale', and that 'that world before the bombs fall' is what makes it so special
News I don't want to set the world on fire, but if I did, it'd probably make for a pretty good game franchise.
FF14's Yoshi-P reveals why he's finally lifting glamour restrictions—he's got his own preferences, but it's 'no longer the time to force them on players'
News Playing dress-up.
Just in case you thought Helldivers 2 was a little too nice, Arrowhead's just added magma planets where everything's on fire, and this is fine
News "Too hot for humans, too unstable for farming, too explosive for tourism."
Voice actor for Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach says 'we're still seen as outsources' in game dev: 'There's a weird disconnect'
News Samantha Béart says the realities of studios and fans are very different.
Debate: What is your objectively correct keybinding setup for your current MMO, and why is everybody else wrong?
IN A BIND If, indeed, you are using a keyboard at all.
Lies of P director says 'I will not disappoint you' when it comes to the sequel, and after playing its award-winning DLC this year, I fully believe him
News Overture gives me faith.
Destiny 2 director doesn't want it to 'be a dead live game', as the ailing shooter stares down the barrel of fan outrage: 'We want to keep building Destiny'
News "[Our players] don't want to chase a simple number that goes up."
Schedule 1 creator had a backup plan if Steam rejected it—pack up the product, don a farmer's hat, and 'pivot it to be a farming game' like Stardew Valley
News Jesse. We've gotta restore the community centre, Jesse.
Dispatch's original script would've let you pick 3 heroes like 'starter Pokémon', snagging Invisigal, Waterboy, or Mr Whiskey to pull under your wing
News Professor Oak: Are you an Invisigal, or a Waterboy?
Tavern Keeper's early access is already a crunchy management sim, a cosy blanket, an interior decor game, and a furniture designer all at once
INN CREDIBLE A comfy videogame turducken.
The voice of Geralt isn't worried about Ciri's recasting in The Witcher 4: 'I think she's going to do a great job'
News Passing on the mantle.
Team Cherry says that 'if there were ever other' Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they'd all be self-contained and 'exist alongside one another'
News So no Silksong 2, huh.
