Latest articles by Harvey Randall
In the wake of shutting down a highly popular mod, Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P shares deeply earnest blog about 'mods, their use, and the culture surrounding them'
News It's a change in tone.
Final Fantasy 14's incoming choose-your-own difficulty will be 'the general direction' going forward, but Yoshi-P suggests they might need to trim future patches to compensate
News "This is the general direction that we've set for Final Fantasy 14 moving forward."
FF14 director Yoshi-P is 'kind of glad and relieved' that Dawntrail's story is over, because players will have 'the fate of the world on their shoulders' again—but that was never the expansion's problem
News I'm excited to take center stage again, but I never stopped saving reality.
WoW devs want to 'step back' from the 'world-ending' stakes where you get called a pitiful mortal lots, and back to quests like 'oats for Blanchy'—presumably without sending the horse to hell afterwards
News "Housing is going to be another place where we start to do that."
Helldivers 2's upcoming patch will see you diving deep into Terminid nests where your stratagems won't save you—also, the bugs have dragons now
News Harrowing nest.
Borderlands 3 'sometimes felt like parody' of itself, say writers, but 4 aims to fix that: 'If I tried to put a meme in the game, he would come to my house with a baseball bat'
News The aim is to land on "humor, levity, and authentic character storytelling that takes itself seriously."
All MMO quest journals are a massive waste of potential, except for FF14's, which was good for exactly one storyline
META-KNIGHT Ishikawa popped off, but her trick hasn't been repeated since.
Everyone's heading back to Hollow Knight for one last go before Silksong comes out—the game's all-time Steam peak is rising as I write this headline
News Ah, shaa, here we go again.
'No AI is being used': Sekiro anime studio Qzil.la lands in the hotseat after suspected past AI usage raises eyebrows—reassures fans that it's not the case this time
News Slop or smear?
Critical Role's next D&D campaign will have 13 players and 3 parties—and I have no idea where Brennan is getting this energy from
News We're going West Marches, baby.
Why did Team Cherry's devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: Silksong? 'All we could really say is, we're still working on it', so they stopped doing that
News "At the time we thought we'd go quiet for a year or two, then the game would come out."
Silksong finally has a release date, officially, from Team Cherry and everything—putting an end to over half a decade of Silksanity
News I skong'd it my way.
WoW's player housing feature will have an import function, letting you save and share houses—and potentially furnishings—with each other
News Behold, the seat of my power! Literally.
Playstack, not content with obliterating my free time via Balatro, is publishing another roguelike about coin pusher machines
News I'm doomed.
World of Warcraft: Midnight will introduce a 'Prey' system, and by jove, I think Blizzard might be close to fixing the MMO's open-world difficulty problem
News On the hunt.
Team Cherry will be making a 'Special Announcement' about Silksong on Thursday, and—wait, is it finally over? Can we all go home?
News I… I don't know what to do with myself.
Fallout creator Tim Cain does the impossible, makes me shift my opinion on respecs just a little bit, because fine, I guess it does sometimes turn bad design 'into a player problem'
News Darnit.
Marvel Rivals devs have been given the go-ahead to make their own characters for the game, and I have literally no idea why they'd do that
News No more heroes.
NCSoft's making a new MMO shooter that, snazzy graphics aside, feels like it's already 15 years old—and that might just match your freak
News It's almost nostalgic.
Capcom runs out of emergency glass to break with Monster Hunter Wilds, but it's going to 'implement a multifaceted plan' to improve PC performance 'this winter'
News This time for sure.
If you're having a bad day, here's a pick-me-up: A bunch of Riot higher-ups had to talk about 'what the word goon meant' at a leadership meeting
News "That was a real thing that happened."
We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them
HAND HELD Let me get lost, I promise it's okay.
EA's new Skate game will have live service seasons, and I'm trying not to let that Fortnite-type dread get to me
News Battle passes? Seasons? I just want to skate.
