Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Lies of P isn't my favourite soulslike, but Overture is one of the best DLCs in the whole genre
LIE TO ME Round 8 has a bright, glorious future if it keeps this up.
The Last of Us Part 2 has a 'chronological mode' now, in case you wanted to play through a story with all the finesse of a Wikipedia plot summary
News Who is this for?
World of Warcraft: The War Within's last major patch before Midnight drops early August, and it's time to go into space again
News Ghosts of K'aresh arrives August 5.
Borderlands 4 certainly looks like it's taking its story more seriously: 'We wanted to go back to this sense of dread about the villain of our game'
News There's some fun cyberpunk DNA coursing through this thing.
Monster Hunter Wilds' poor post-launch reception bubbles up to the surface in shareholder meetings, though Capcom says it's 'committed' to fixing performance and content woes
News As the Steam reviews continue to rage, Capcom's putting out fires.
EA Japan exec laments Microsoft's crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for 'short-term results from large-scale investments'
News "In Japan, 'restructures' are very directly perceived as 'layoffs'."
Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders
News We're barely off to the races, and SGDQ has already raised over $124,000.
Rematch players are still crashing out over 'self-absorbed' ball hogs, and while I do get it, I can't help but wonder if some zen is in order
News Pass! To me! Back post!
The Silksong subreddit is conducting elaborate ritual ban sacrifices in an attempt to cure 'silksanity' and secure the game's release
News Good lord, what is happening in there?
Rematch plans to add an in-game report system, punish own-goal griefers with 3 days in the slammer, and slap cheaters with indefinite bans
News "We take these matters extremely seriously."
Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'
News An avocado toast for a new era.
20 foolproof ways to get laid off in the videogame industry
Protips Tired of making games? Just use one of these simple tricks!
Rematch's developers expected players to develop new tech fast, but 'not nearly as fast as it is going right now'
News Tekkers!
Neil Druckmann leaves The Last of Us HBO, alongside Part 2's co-writer Halley Gross, despite there still being 2 more seasons to go
News The last of 'em.
Bankrupt supplier with unsold TTRPG and D&D books files to move its inventory without paying publishers—which is 'a giant pain' if you're anyone but Hasbro
News "It’s a giant pain in the ass and blows our annual budget to sh*t."
'It took a while to get there, but now we feel we're in a good place': Fatshark's design director talks doing years of repair work on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
News "They knew, 'it's going to get better, so don't worry'."
Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak'
News Give someone a gun, and everything starts to look like a nail you can shoot with a gun.
Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make
News "With not a whole lot of effort, but just good planning, we can support a wide spectrum of players."
BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D's 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips
News Rest in gish.
Rematch devs talk balls—specifically, how to balance the ball's feel with function: 'It's the basic brick of the game, it's like an atomic component'
News Any tweaks need to be done in a "considerate and deliberate way".
'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam
News AI-ters.
Crisis averted—Blizzard quickly axes busted Diablo 4 build that turned players into teleporting gods of destruction on the PTR, because it was 'basically eclipsing everything else'
News I am speed.
No more dolphin swimming or flying in Rematch—in a bug fix, Sloclap very seriously explains why levitating soccer players aren't part of its vision for the game
News It's okay, Sloclap. We understand.
