Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Celebrating the 20th birthday of City of Heroes: an MMO resurrected by the people who loved it enough to 'bring the game back for good'
WE BUILT THIS CITY "It just makes me feel so humbled that we had that kind of an impact. It still does."
Arrowhead Games keeps the spirit of democracy alive by making Helldivers 2 players choose which stratagem they'd like to unlock next
News "And the citizens, too. The citizens are the most important part."
FF14 players are struggling to complete the Yo-kai Watch event thanks to a tide of Blue Mages armed with bad vibes and missiles
News Ill-FATE-ed.
Helldivers 2 devs confirm that, no, trimming 'excess leg space in the cockpit' doesn't mean the nice Eagle-1 lady is hacking off her legs for liberty
News Liberty returns, locked and loaded.
Helldivers 2 devs send players into a frenzy as they tease 2 new potential stratagems via meme propaganda
News Code breakers.
US game devs celebrate as non-compete clauses, previously deemed 'a trash way to keep the talent', face a ban from the FTC—which would free up movement across the AAA industry
News "There are going to be SO MANY new indie games from AAA devs if this goes through."
Roll20 will cut out the alt-tabbing middleman and let you run your D&D and TTRPG games directly in Discord, which you were probably using for voice chat anyway
News Roll20 Pro subscribers will be able to take the feature for a test spin later this month.
The futility of Helldivers 2's 'Menkent Line' has parts of the community feeling bot fatigue: 'We fought hard to establish a defensive line, and for what?'
News War. War never changes.
Embracer's CEO says 'I'm sure I deserve a lot of criticism' as he reflects on a company split three ways—but maintains that every 'key entrepreneur and CEO' believed in its 'mission'
News "All those decisions to acquire or organically set up or invest … I firmly believed in that."
FF14 and FF16 senior translator Koji Fox says 'you can kinda tell' game director Naoki Yoshida is 'like: I'm done with dark fantasy, I want to do something light again'
News Tonal recall.
Baldur's Gate 3 player summons roughly 88 minions to conquer Honour Mode with a glorious army of spore zombies, elementals, and Scratch the best boy
News I cast "All My Fellas" at 9th level.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor drops into Game Pass via EA play, which is a great excuse to try it if you noped out in 2023 due to its initially terrible performance
News Play or play not, there is no buy.
Final Fantasy 14 is bringing its Yo-kai Watch crossover back after 4 years, offering weapon glams, mounts, and a minion we crowned 'the ugliest MMO pet of all time'
News What the dog doin'? Upsetting me. That's what.
Fortnite's battle royale mode was cooked up in the back of an Uber in 'like, three hours'
News "A school bus is going by us in traffic, and I’m like: Players are going to be on a bus in the sky."
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's new benchmark will get a 2.0 version after player upset over lifeless eyes, flattened faces, and cursed lalafell dolphin teeth
News A Preview Reborn.
'The concerns about claustrophobia were a major aspect' of desiging World of Warcraft: The War Within's underground zones, says director
news Blizzard didn't want Azeroth's caves to be drab.
WoW: The War Within's new arachnophobia filter that turns spiders into crabs was mapped out by a lone developer, but 'she had a wonderful time—she likes spiders'
News Crabby enemy secret formula.
World of Warcraft's executive producer says the game's recent maverick events like Plunderstorm and MoP: Remix are owed to a squad of madcaps called 'the live team'
News "We started saying 'okay well, let's experiment'."
Blizzard quietly had World of Warcraft players test run The War Within's biggest new feature last year: underground zones
news Dragonflight's Zaralek Caverns were the blueprint for what's coming in the next expansion.
WoW: The War Within will tell its main story via delves and dungeons 'when it makes sense', giving me hope for an escape from 2 decades of raid-centric storytelling
News That's the World of Warcraft that you play (on YouTube).
Helldivers 2 devs are working on bug fixes, but 'Arrowhead still has a very small team' after its surprise success, and 'there's just only so much time in a work week'
News Liberty wears multiple hats.
WoW's Plunderstorm event just had its rep grind cut in half until April 30—which is great news for everyone, except our online editor who just spent 2 days on it
News Yarrgh.
Blizzard obliterates an orb from WoW Classic: Season of Discovery's 3rd phase for causing problems, leaves a terrifying class of Crusader-enchanted players in its wake
News Enchantment!
