Latest articles by Harvey Randall
The new Fable's morality system will live in 'shades of gray', which is a huge shift for a series where being too mean made literal devil horns grow out of your head
News Everyone always calls me chicken chaser. Nobody asks why I chase chickens.
In less than 1 week, Blizzard's sliced WoW's transmog costs in half after upset to 'bring them more in line with what the prices were prior'
News Well, they move fast.
D&D Beyond's official partner program to add one of the most popular homebrew classes, which lets you engage in fisticuffs like a true rowdy
News Maxwell would be proud.
Blizzard's not been 'backtracking' on its combat addon plans for World of Warcraft, says game director Ion Hazzikostas: 'This was always the intent, to swing the pendulum to the other end and then creep it back'
News Knock it down, then build it back up.
Blizzard let its UI mods 'go farther than we should have', says game director Ion Hazzikostas, but 'the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second-best time is today'
News Late or not, that band-aid's gonna be ripped off.
WoW's pre-patch stat squish has caused several low-level potions and food items to do literally nothing, with some even restoring '-0 health', whatever that means
News Potion seller, I require your weakest potions.
Not having combat UI mods in WoW hurts way less than I expected, and while I think Blizzard still has some work to do, I'm mostly just happy for the peace and quiet
News Cutting the clutter.
Painkiller's creator jokes that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's team of newbies has 'ruined' his worldview: 'I don't know what to believe anymore'
News "There's an incredible amount of smart decisions that allow them to make a game that looks AAA."
The WoW UI updates have come for Peggle, but its author is looking into it—as unexpected casualties of Blizzard's war on combat mods abound
News Oh, the humanity!
Lara Croft's design could've gone full FF7/Street Fighter in Japan to appeal to audiences in the mid-'90s, says co-creator, but 'All that was changed was the manuals & guide'
News Looking at these renders, I'm pretty certain they made the right choice.
Blizzard devs talk about going back to WoW's beloved expansion continent, Northrend, and rebuilding it for The Last Titan: 'We wanna make sure we're doing justice to those memories'
News Put your snow boots on, we're going back to Northrend.
Big Hops is a charming platformer with some great movement and a classic vibe, but most importantly it lets you rotate several bugs for science
News A Hop in Time.
The best co-op games to drag your pals into
Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.
WoW's combat UI mods break with this week's pre-patch, marking an enormous change for the 20-year-old MMO
News It's finally time.
The modern MMO's biggest enemy is difficulty, because pleasing everyone is basically impossible—and yet, they must
NOT EASY Devs of the present, I do not envy ye.
Nightreign's latest patch finally buffs my boy, the Executor, alongside Guardian, Revenant, and Raider
News Finally!
WoW: Midnight beta introduces a new Mythic+ dungeon modifier that's kinda just yellow paint for routing, and you know what? Good
News Dungeon routing is a huge pain, but this should make it easier.
While it's unclear How Many Dudes it'd take to beat up a gorilla, I can with certainty tell you that 15 zombies, 4 samurai, 2 barbarians, 4 ghosts, and 4 dudes do a pretty good job
News How Many Dudes? is shaping up to be a silly autobattling time.
Despite an incredibly tough 2025 for ZeniMax, The Elder Scrolls Online's leadership is hopeful: 'We've definitely got our eyes on the future, because this is our home'
News "We aren't done yet."
One of The Elder Scrolls Online's oldest problems, overland difficulty, is finally getting addressed—but the devs are 'starting really small' because 'we didn't want to take a big swing and miss'
News "We can turn this into, over time, a more fully-fledged and robust system."
The Elder Scrolls Online's director says doing the same-old yearly patch cycle wasn't 'going to cut it' if the MMO developer 'wanted to have a shot at reaching that 30-year mark'
SCROLL UP "Nothing is off the table right now."
Stellar Blade's director says AI can see 'one person can perform the work of 100 people' but that won't wind up in job losses, somehow
News Strong as ten regular men, definitely*.
Even after its success, Embark design lead is still lukewarm on AI usage for Arc Raiders: 'I don't think it's fallen any way or the other'
News Neutr-AI-lity.
