Latest articles by Harvey Randall
'I won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live': Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu 'huge breasts' when Pokémon first came to the US, and no, it wasn't a mistranslation
News I have an idea to redesign Pikachu! Well, actually, two ideas. Big ones.
League of Legends' Wild Rift China posts AI slop that looks like a fever dream you'd have after watching KPop Demon Hunters, executive producer says it 'frankly, did not hit the mark'
News KSlop Minion Punters.
No more deploy beacon clown cars for recon players in Battlefield 6—the assault class will get them instead: 'We're intentionally redefining it as a teamplay tool for frontline flanking'
News Sayonara, 0.5kd snipers.
The official mod support of Baldur's Gate 3 is a heaving success with over 265 million downloads, 250,000 of which are Withers Big Naturals
News Must thine eyes wander perilously often to mine chest?
Shadowheart has been respecced over 4,890,005 times in Baldur's Gate 3, and I know at least 2 reasons why
News God's favourite princess is not well min-maxed.
Silksong fan uses electrons to draw the 'world's smallest Hornet', which is 'about 1/5 the width of a strand of silk', '2 bacteria long', and '8,000 times smaller' than the actual insect
News No Skong at the Nintendo Direct, SteamDB pages, and a teeny-tiny hornet.
'I’d prefer working as a small team'—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs think their studio is 'just the right size', with no real plans to expand it yet
News Ah yes, the goldilocks method.
Dimension 20's Brennan Lee Mulligan will DM Critical Role's next campaign, bravely sacrificing his budding American Girl Doll shoes career and presumably a lot of sleep
News I promised myself I would cry but it's just not happening.
Microsoft made $27.2 billion in 3 months and still chose to lay 9,000 people off, in case you thought there was simply no other way
News Somebody help me budget this, my industry is dying.
New Steam update adds new 'customise' tab your games—letting you finally organise things by release date, or just look at Big Naturals Withers every time you open Baldur's Gate 3
News Huge news for the kind of people that put their meetings on a spreadsheet.
D&D is 'here to earn your trust, not ask for it', starting with making Beyond's maps software free, brushing up the SRD, and sharing 'third-party creations across our official channels'
News Dungeons & daring to hope?
The best superhero TTRPG to ever do it is getting a second edition, with a quickstart launching in 2026
News Nobody knew who I was until I played the Masks.
Battlefield 6 has 2 open beta weekends this month, a release date for October, and a $70 price point after all that melodrama
News Get ready to field some battles.
Marvel Rivals has started screening your in-game voice chat for moderation purposes to make 'the game a better place for everyone'
News A customisable mute list for text chat is also en route.
You've heard of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, so here's Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 2, a Helldivers 2 city based on the village, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
News Inside me are two wolves, one is "Gun", the other is difficult to pronounce.
If you catch the ball in Rematch, there's a small chance you didn't—Sloclap's desync issues are upsetting players in a game I otherwise can't stop playing
News I came in like a soccer ball.
EA CEO taps into the great machine spirit of corpo-speak, says Battlefield 6 isn't 'just a product', it's a 'platform', and that EA's 'all in' on making it massive
News They have "hundreds of creators and influencers". Hundreds!
'They stuck to their convictions': Astarion's VA Neil Newbon is glad Larian stepped away from Baldur's Gate 3 to follow their passions, since 'It was absolutely the right call'
News See you later, astral cowboy.
Itch.io is 'actively reaching out to other payment processors' after pressure from credit card companies to curtail NSFW content, and that compared to Valve, it has 'limited ability to push back'
News Clearing up the confusion.
The New York Times thinks generative AI is like Pac-Man ghosts and also the Matrix, because nobody gets to be normal about this stuff anymore
News Am I being baited? I think I'm being baited.
Capcom smashes second, larger pane of emergency glass—pulling a big endgame Monster Hunter Wilds update from September and getting it ready for next month instead
News Will it be enough?
Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs
NOBODY WINS "Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."
UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology says you're on the side of 'extreme pornographers' and 'predators' if you want the Online Safety Act walked back
News Finally, we're safe from the nasty predators in (check notes) cycling forums.
