Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Netflix misspells the name of Devil May Cry antagonist Vergil on a t-shirt, and it's honestly one of the more understandable typos they could've made
News You say Vergil, I say Virgil, you say tomato, I say…
The Bioshock series has some of gaming's best intros because lead dev Ken Levine knows 'if you have a mediocre beginning, you're done'
News First impressions are everything.
Taking a heroic stand against the holy trinity, 5 bears beat a WoW dungeon on its highest difficulty—Blizzard says oops, quickly reverts 200% buff that caused it
News Unbear-able
Bioshock lead's fears about Judas were banished by Baldur's Gate 3 gibbing a main character on his second playthrough: 'He was gone'
News "I don't have a heartbreak about people not seeing player content."
Mixtape is at the center of another tedious culture war discourse, and I think I know why
MIX-TAKE Nostalgia's a powerful thing.
Nine Sols, one of our best-reviewed soulslikes, is just $12 on Steam this week
News Not a bad price for near-perfection.
Crimson Desert's latest patch gives the people what they want, which is to tame and ride a random bear with your own two hands—or a goat, if you're freaky
News Or a wolf, or a lion, or a tiger, or a raptor, or…
Mixtape review: A gorgeous coming-of-age story that left me wondering why it's a videogame at all
MIX UP Perfect playlist, but just a decent videogame.
Discussion time: Are classic tab-target MMOs with loads of keybinds going out of style?
CLOSE THE TAB I can feel my inner old man weeping, but the times, they are a-changing.
Andy Serkis says 'there has always been that snobbery' when it comes to videogame acting, but the times are changing thanks to games like Expedition 33
News "I don't see any difference between that and acting in films or on stage or TV."
Old School RuneScape needs 'to do a bunch of work to stop the game exploding soon', as a problem from 2018 rears its ugly head
News Let me see some IDs.
Why I love Deadlock's map, which has brought me back to the world of MOBAs long after I swore I'd quit
MAP MVP A juker's paradise.
Coal in Old School RuneScape has, in theory, outperformed cryptocurrency Ethereum this year
News Big, beautiful, coal.
Baldur's Gate 3 cast 'changed the game' for videogame actors, says Dragon Age: Inquisition lead: 'We too deserve to stand up and be counted'
News Flowers duly deserved.
I got to play Dead as Disco early, and it's a vivid, unrestrained romp that lets you brawl through music videos like a kung-fu Baby Driver
GROOVIN' Disco's back, baby.
Loving MMOs in 2026 is an exercise in frustration, grief, and moving on
CLOSING IN Allow me to get a little existential.
A treehouse bundle in WoW costs a whopping $75, and while I know exactly who Blizzard's made it for, that doesn't mean I feel good about it
News Making bank, but at what cost?
I just watched someone try to explain Deadlock to Joe Rogan for 6 minutes, and surprisingly, they kinda nailed it
News Locked in.
Former ESO boss Matt Firor talks about the death of unrealised MMO Project Blackbird: 'Microsoft is Microsoft'
News "A giant successful videogame on the Microsoft level was frankly not that stimulating to them."
MMO vet Matt Firor was going to make Fallout Online in 2007, but Interplay 'went totally dark on me' and he went to Bethesda to make ESO instead
News What could've been.
Slay the Spire 2 devs weren't going to make a sequel, but then the publisher handling the first game's ports shut down and things got 'very murky'
News "I guess we were a little naïve."
Blizzard's former president wanted there to be a WoW 2 rather than 'the same WoW 1 expansions over and over re-skinned'
News World of Morecraft.
Fallout co-creator wants to make one last game before he retires 'for the second time'
News Tim Cain's considering dipping back into the industry for one last go.
