Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Playstack, not content with obliterating my free time via Balatro, is publishing another roguelike about coin pusher machines
News I'm doomed.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime studio Qzil.la lands in the hotseat after suspected AI usage—though whether it's generative or not is still up in the air
News Slop or smear?
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.
'Veilguard is 4 games stitched together', says ex-BioWare lead Mark Darrah, and it might've been better to 'shut the project down completely' around 2017
News Oof.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch messes the game's story all up, renders bosses technically unkillable, and it's all the Qing Dynasty's fault, apparently
News A bizarre move.
WoW players are losing their minds over a 19-quest long chain about bees, and while it is a bit much, I remember far worse
News Eco-drone.
We're joining Frosthaven's party to give you a chance at winning a gaming laptop, a game key, and some swag to boot
Giveaway! Get some loot to get you started.
Borderlands 4 has, like, so many guns, 30 billion guns, so many they had to put 'em on a 'wall of guns' like the Matrix, say devs
News Welcome back, 87 bazillion guns.
The MMOs we grew up with are gone, and it's all our fault because we loved them to death
GRINDS OUT There's been a murder.
WoW's Legion Remix won't make you choose between transmogs and gear—adds harder world content, Mythic+ style dungeons, and enough cool stuff to make me almost forget about Mage Tower
News I never got to play it, but I might be okay with that.
Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon wants to reprise his role, but when people say 'this character's just like Astarion, would you like to play them?' he's 'like not really, no'
News It's not you, darling, it's me. I have standards.
Final Fantasy 14 wins my personal award for the Most Specific Bug Fix in a MMO 2025, and I'm astonished anyone even found it in the first place
News The stars were in place for this server boot.
Assassin's Creed devs say they'll be getting around to the whole Assassins vs Templars and modern setting stuff 'at some point, in some fashion'
News Totally eventually possibly.
'Eager to move on from failure': Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: 'We weren't getting the people'
News "Within EA, you're better off being 'one game at a time'."
Helldivers 2's newest trailer basically confirms a Halo 3: ODST crossover with a melancholy saxophone
News Super Earth; Master Chief.
