Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Dune: Awakening has decided it's 'not an MMO' anymore
News Just a very complicated survival game.
Mouseward is an adorably gloomy soulslike where you play an itty bitty undead mouse collecting stars, and it has a demo out now
News Grave tidings.
It's the year 2026, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will be streaming regularly on Twitch starting today
News Does this come under "just chatting?"
WoW: Midnight's hardcore raiders are on a gold treadmill, with a first-time clear of Mythic Midnight Falls costing around 87,750 gold in repairs alone
News And that's before consumables, which ramps that bill up to 340,692 if you're going full tryhard.
Critical Role finally releases a full-scale map of Campaign 4's main city, and I'm deeply jealous to not have their personal cartographer at my table
News The inevitable Aramán campaign setting is gonna slap.
Final Fantasy 11 expected a 'sharp player decline' once the hype from the FF14 crossover and welcome back campaigns ended, but that never came
News The 24-year-old MMO is trucking along just fine.
World's largest film archive has a collection of internet memes now, including a granny having a cathartic GTA rampage and Limmy's Purple Burglar Alarm
News A collection of delightful nonsense.
Final Fantasy creator Sakaguchi praises AI slop trailer for a FF6 remake, earns himself a light ribbing from battle designer on the first 2 games
News Fin-AI-l Fantasy.
MMOs are better if classes are imbalanced—you just need to do it on purpose
IMBA Perfectly balanced, as all things shouldn't be.
After close to 140 hours with it, I think Slay the Spire 2 feels more like a sequel than a DLC, even if Megacrit was forced to make it
REPLAY THE SPIRE Not just a shuffle of the deck.
Subnautica 2 has sold 2 million copies in 12 hours, with 9x the players as the first, and at this point I figure that Krafton CEO is already on his second bottle
News Let's sea how this all plays out.
Control was destined to become an RPG franchise all along, says creative director: 'That's how Control was born'
News News to me, but I suppose non-Euclidean geometric brutalist Rome wasn't built in a day.
Amazon reportedly had a studio pivot away from a game 'everyone was excited by' to make something with more AI stuffed in it, then laid them all off anyway
News Beyond parody.
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."
