Latest articles by Harvey Randall
We need to commit—it's time crunchy, complicated RPGs made their mainstream comeback for good
CRUNCH TIME Scrap the streamline.
Starfinder: Afterlight snags Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark to voice its narrator, and he's just as Arthur Morgan about it as you'd expect
News "Somewhere between the stars, and a soft purr, there's a story that I can finally be a part of.
Our pick for 2024's best tactics game just got a community pack of featured levels—which ignore the dev's difficulty balance goals because 'our community, god bless em, have no such qualms'
News Also, it's 40% off this week.
Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft are starting to meet in the middle on modding, and it's a strange new world for MMOs and their AddOn communities
SAME DIFF Two households, both alike in genre, in fair AddOn-a, where we lay our scene.
Final Fantasy 14 says screw it, you want healers in platemail, you can have them—promises to remove all class and level restrictions on glamour
News In the most normal voice ever: YES! YES!
Anime-based therapy is being trialed in Japan
News Well, to be specific, visual novel-based therapy.
Arc Raiders' design director says 'we will maintain the current aesthetic that we have' when it comes to skins, so no 'T-Rex costume running around'
News But what about Left Shark?
GDQ's upcoming event, Games Done Queer, has already become a fierce rallying cry of support for LGBT rights in the US: 'We had 450 hours of content submitted for the 36-hour show'
NO RUNNING "We're here, we're bigger than you think we are, and we can band together when it's important."
Only 3% of Stop Killing Games' EU initiative signees have failed verification so far—which is a great sign it'll progress to the European Commission
News 689,035/1,448,270 signatures have been verified.
Legion Remix characters from 'Quality Assurance' guild breach containment, enter WoW proper with their godlike power intact—forcing Blizzard to quarantine Remix for the time being
News Sneaking them artefacts through security.
One of the most shocking moments in Critical Role's 4th D&D campaign was planned from the jump—yet with enough left to chance that Alexander Ward 'did leave the table thinking I'd really f*cked up'
News Necr-oh no-mancer.
Microsoft might be silent, but Halo's co-creator and Halo 2's design lead have called the US government's 'Destroy the Flood' analogy comparing immigrants to parasites 'absolutely abhorrent'
News "It really makes me sick seeing Halo co-opted like this."
You can get every single one of Telltale's The Walking Dead seasons for $5—which is around $1 per 10 hours of game
News It won't cost you an arm.
That multiplayer God of War game Sony axed in its live-service purge might've taken us back to Greece, as reportedly leaked screenshots emerge
News Boy, we must do our daily missions to collect Hermes Gems.
You can snag around $200's worth of Critical Role's comic adaptations of its many D&D campaigns for $18, thanks to yet another value-stacked Humble Bundle
News Your page-turn to roll.
The Outer Worlds 2 dunks on you with a 'Consumerism' flaw that secretly makes you stupid if you bought its $100 version for early access: 'Promotions and sales have riddled your brain'
News "You're the reason our marketing works."
Former Sony boss says the industry's obsession with the 'mirage' of live service games is futile: 'The highway is littered with people wanting to take on Fortnite'
News "For most, it doesn't happen."
Battlefield 6 dataminers claim mysterious 'granite' files related to this week's patch could be a shadowdrop for its battle royale mode
News Don't take this for granite—I mean, granted. Shoot.
Turns out, that horny Borderlands 4 shield wasn't actually supposed to be so horny—or at least, not so horny so often: 'Voice lines now trigger at the intended frequency'
News Smuts per second.
New Borderlands 4 patch stumbles by making the nerfed crit knife an actual DPS loss on some builds, plus a Halloween event that's 'like getting a dead rat in a box for Christmas'
News Yowch.
Critical Role's 4-episode overture had me clenching my cheeks through some of the most intense D&D I've ever seen, and I'm not convinced I'll be surviving Campaign 4
News Mercy me, Brennan.
Borderlands 4 smashes sales in the US, says analyst—it was the top dog in September, the fastest-selling entry in the series, and is already the 3rd most-bought game this year
News Phat loot.
Critical Role's Whitney Moore says she's 'made the mistake of thinking that I could out-troll' prank extraordinaire Sam Riegel at the table
News "We're in a race to the bottom to see who can be the voice of reason first."
