Latest articles by Harvey Randall
WoW's recent revamp of Silvermoon for Midnight is so good, I'm starting to wonder if the MMO's model of a 'new exciting continent every 2-3 years' was ever the right way
OVER THE 'MOON Home is where the hearthstone is.
Ah yikes, World of Warcraft: Midnight's otherwise solid housing system is soured by its premium currency, which makes you 'minimize leftovers' even though Blizzard said it wouldn't
News Just let me buy the exact amount, I beg you.
After playing a bunch of Midnight, I don't think I miss WoW's combat addons or my old class design at all
OUTLAW VOGUE Then again, I'm one of the lucky ones.
Final Fantasy 11, a 23-year-old MMO, is getting so many new players it's having to stop character creation on its busiest server
News FF11 is still going strong.
After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, chaotic, madcap videogames I've ever played—and I'm hungry for more
SHEER KLIFF Pearl Abyss is engaging in a biblical act of design hubris, and it's somehow working out.
D&D's clunkily-named 2024 ruleset, a revamp of 5e, finally throws up its hands and goes fine, we'll call it 5.5e on D&D Beyond, you win
News Vindication!
WoW's new allied race in Midnight, the Haranir, has a model clipping issue with dozens of gear items—a problem that's been on the PTR for months
News Does this outfit make my butt clip?
World of Warcraft: Midnight's 'stay a while and listen' monologues might've just heavily hinted at a future big bad
News "Forget what I have said."
How to open the triple-locked safebox in WoW Midnight
Key-llector Get some loot and progress the Treasures of Eversong achievement.
'The Light really did call EVERYBODY': players find Leeory Jenkins, complete with his cloth shoulderpads, defending the Sunwell in World of Warcraft: Midnight
News Those shoulders'll help him heal better, he'll have more mana.
15 years after it was shut down, Star Wars Galaxies is still getting massive updates thanks to this restoration project—like a Helldivers-style galactic civil war
News What could've been, is.
WoW's revisiting old zones for Midnight and The Last Titan because not every story 'has to be told within the context of a new continent'
News "Or island or liminal space. Wherever we're going."
The Denshattack! demo sees you kickflipping, grinding, and joyriding a Ferris wheel into an active volcano on the world's most tubular commute
News Multi-track drifting is somehow the least wild thing happening, here.
World of Warcraft: Midnight's lack of combat addons lets the devs make raids harder without resorting to 'shoot more bullets at you' design, says encounter lead
News "I think many encounter designers [at Blizzard] have been trying to do that over the years."
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.
