Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Monster Hunter Wilds claws past Dota 2 and Lost Ark to be Steam's 5th most-played game ever, with a nearly 1.4 million peak player count
News The number just keeps going up.
The co-creator of Dark Souls' most ambitious mod resurfaces to inform me that Blighttown, source of my nightmares, was cobbled together with '10 bits of wood'
News Good. Good to know.
WoW's new Undermine(d) patch had a live jazz ensemble recording its big-band bangers, and they got to improvise: 'Usually those were the takes that ended up in the final version'
News Do ya like jazz?
Palworld's developer gives staff day off after Monster Hunter Wilds causes 'a series of mysterious reports from many employees that they may feel unwell'
News Coming down with a case of monst-itis.
Over 30 Apex Legends voice actors refuse to sign an agreement that would see them 'give up our expertise to train the generative AI that will replace us tomorrow'
News "We are asked to shoot ourselves in the foot."
WoW's new DRIVE system probably won't be used outside of its GTA-style goblin zone, but devs are 'going to think about' recycling its parts elsewhere
News Goblin theft auto.
Shape of Dreams' demo shows off an ingenious roguelike that wields Risk of Rain-tier finesse with action MOBA chaos, and I think I might be in love
News Be still my sleeping heart.
Delves have given WoW's devs the confidence to put mandatory grinds firmly in the rear-view, says game director Ion Hazzikostas
News "We made a very conscious choice to say, you know what? It just gives you gear."
Baldur's Gate 3's stress test update has, mercifully, made one of its new OP cantrips halfway balanced again—but it's really still quite good
News To the blade.
Haste: Broken Worlds finally lets me live out my childhood fantasy of running really fast and then slamming into a rock at Mach 1 and breaking all my bones
News What? It's a normal dream.
Jennifer English (Shadowheart) and Nolan North (Nathan Drake) will be the illustrious hosts of the Future Games Show this year
News Illustrious headwobbles and action heroes, with a heaping helping of games to share.
Dungeons & Dragons' first post-revamp adventure book says hey, let's put some dungeons and some dragons in this thing
News D&D in your D&D.
WoW promising 3 expansions with a bunch of roadmap deadlines has, paradoxically, helped its devs slow down and take their time: 'The team is really energized'
News Time is money, friend.
FF14 streamer yields to the MMO's bounciest catgirl, after inspiring them to beat his new speedrunning record 3 times before he could finish making a video about it
News This miqo'te's built different.
D&D's new Monster Manual is gorgeous and filled with welcome variety—but even with a full system revamp, WoTC's still leaving too much important work to its DMs
HERE AGAIN Not quite the best(iary), not quite the worst.
When asked if they still want to make an MMO, Riot's co-founder replies: 'Oh yeah,' but don't get too excited, the ETA is 'before we go to Mars'
News "It's probably the project I personally spend the most time on as well."
Avowed's in-dialogue glossary isn't that new, really—it's just somehow not industry-standard yet, though it could solve the 'amnesiac/prisoner RPG protagonist' problem forever
WORD UP If someone says "wow, you must've hit your head hard" one more time, I'm gonna lose it.
Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems'
News "Just because you are big enough to build something doesn’t mean people will use it."
Streamer achieves git gud godhood by beating all mainline Souls games at level 1, back to back, without getting hit—then explodes into tears of relief
News "I wanna just get naked and run around the city right now."
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players are seized by the spirit of generosity, band together to buy strangers in need over $1,500 in copies
News Pay it forward.
Japanese patent attorney, burdened with a party pooper's knowledge, says Nintendo having 22 out of 23 Palworld-targeting claims 'rejected' in the US is business as usual
News Most patent claims are as broad as possible, and filed down in an iterative process.
WoW next big patch, Undermine(d), gets a release date, starting the countdown clock until my gaming time is entirely consumed with doing donuts in my new ride
News Gas, gas, gas.
5 characters I'm pretty sure will never make it into Marvel Rivals, ever
BOTTOM BARREL Only one of these characters is going to blow up in popularity, and not in a good way.
