Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Borderlands 3 'sometimes felt like parody' of itself, say writers, but 4 aims to fix that: 'If I tried to put a meme in the game, he would come to my house with a baseball bat'
News The aim is to land on "humor, levity, and authentic character storytelling that takes itself seriously."
All MMO quest journals are a massive waste of potential, except for FF14's, which was good for exactly one storyline
META-KNIGHT Ishikawa popped off, but her trick hasn't been repeated since.
Everyone's heading back to Hollow Knight for one last go before Silksong comes out—the game's all-time Steam peak is rising as I write this headline
News Ah, shaa, here we go again.
'No AI is being used': Sekiro anime studio Qzil.la lands in the hotseat after suspected past AI usage raises eyebrows—reassures fans that it's not the case this time
News Slop or smear?
Critical Role's next D&D campaign will have 13 players and 3 parties—and I have no idea where Brennan is getting this energy from
News We're going West Marches, baby.
Why did Team Cherry's devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: Silksong? 'All we could really say is, we're still working on it', so they stopped doing that
News "At the time we thought we'd go quiet for a year or two, then the game would come out."
Silksong finally has a release date, officially, from Team Cherry and everything—putting an end to over half a decade of Silksanity
News I skong'd it my way.
WoW's player housing feature will have an import function, letting you save and share houses—and potentially furnishings—with each other
News Behold, the seat of my power! Literally.
Playstack, not content with obliterating my free time via Balatro, is publishing another roguelike about coin pusher machines
News I'm doomed.
World of Warcraft: Midnight will introduce a 'Prey' system, and by jove, I think Blizzard might be close to fixing the MMO's open-world difficulty problem
News On the hunt.
Team Cherry will be making a 'Special Announcement' about Silksong on Thursday, and—wait, is it finally over? Can we all go home?
News I… I don't know what to do with myself.
Fallout creator Tim Cain does the impossible, makes me shift my opinion on respecs just a little bit, because fine, I guess it does sometimes turn bad design 'into a player problem'
News Darnit.
Marvel Rivals devs have been given the go-ahead to make their own characters for the game, and I have literally no idea why they'd do that
News No more heroes.
NCSoft's making a new MMO shooter that, snazzy graphics aside, feels like it's already 15 years old—and that might just match your freak
News It's almost nostalgic.
Capcom runs out of emergency glass to break with Monster Hunter Wilds, but it's going to 'implement a multifaceted plan' to improve PC performance 'this winter'
News This time for sure.
If you're having a bad day, here's a pick-me-up: A bunch of Riot higher-ups had to talk about 'what the word goon meant' at a leadership meeting
News "That was a real thing that happened."
We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them
HAND HELD Let me get lost, I promise it's okay.
EA's new Skate game will have live service seasons, and I'm trying not to let that Fortnite-type dread get to me
News Battle passes? Seasons? I just want to skate.
'Veilguard is 4 games stitched together', says ex-BioWare lead Mark Darrah, and it might've been better to 'shut the project down completely' around 2017
News Oof.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch messes the game's story all up, renders bosses technically unkillable, and it's all the Qing Dynasty's fault, apparently
News A bizarre move.
WoW players are losing their minds over a 19-quest long chain about bees, and while it is a bit much, I remember far worse
News Eco-drone.
We're joining Frosthaven's party to give you a chance at winning a gaming laptop, a game key, and some swag to boot
Giveaway! Get some loot to get you started.
Borderlands 4 has, like, so many guns, 30 billion guns, so many they had to put 'em on a 'wall of guns' like the Matrix, say devs
News Welcome back, 87 bazillion guns.
