Latest articles by Harvey Randall
20 foolproof ways to get laid off in the videogame industry
Protips Tired of making games? Just use one of these simple tricks!
Rematch's developers expected players to develop new tech fast, but 'not nearly as fast as it is going right now'
News Tekkers!
Neil Druckmann leaves The Last of Us HBO, alongside Part 2's co-writer Halley Gross, despite there still being 2 more seasons to go
News The last of 'em.
Bankrupt supplier with unsold TTRPG and D&D books files to move its inventory without paying publishers—which is 'a giant pain' if you're anyone but Hasbro
News "It’s a giant pain in the ass and blows our annual budget to sh*t."
'It took a while to get there, but now we feel we're in a good place': Fatshark's design director talks doing years of repair work on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
News "They knew, 'it's going to get better, so don't worry'."
Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak'
News Give someone a gun, and everything starts to look like a nail you can shoot with a gun.
Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make
News "With not a whole lot of effort, but just good planning, we can support a wide spectrum of players."
BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D's 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips
News Rest in gish.
Rematch devs talk balls—specifically, how to balance the ball's feel with function: 'It's the basic brick of the game, it's like an atomic component'
News Any tweaks need to be done in a "considerate and deliberate way".
'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam
News AI-ters.
Crisis averted—Blizzard quickly axes busted Diablo 4 build that turned players into teleporting gods of destruction on the PTR, because it was 'basically eclipsing everything else'
News I am speed.
No more dolphin swimming or flying in Rematch—in a bug fix, Sloclap very seriously explains why levitating soccer players aren't part of its vision for the game
News It's okay, Sloclap. We understand.
Despite limping on Steam charts with a 24-hour peak of less than 200, FBC: Firebreak hits 1 million players milestone—and, let's face it, it's probably Game Pass
News A good first impression is everything.
Elden Ring Nightreign player hits 63,375 damage and keeps going until they're punished for their hubris: 'I was suddenly unable to deal any damage at all'
News Powers we were never meant to hold.
Top-10 Steam game Bongo Cat is 'actually losing us money' says dev, which is fine because it's been great for business: 'Before, we knocked on 50 doors; now, they are coming to us'
News Word of meowth.
Jagex CEO breaks glass, hits PR emergency button by promising an end to a 'tainted RuneScape 3' via microtransaction overhaul
News DEFCON 3-to-Play.
Rematch players are flopping about like schools of flying fish because—and I tested this—it's actually faster
News I foresee a hotfix in Sloclap's future.
Larian jumped to improve Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3 right away, with voice actor Samantha Béart saying it was nigh-on immediate: 'As soon as it was out, I got a call'
News "People were still in the character creator."
WoW snaps up one of FF14's best features by letting players choose how many particle effects they want swamping their screens during raids
News I can see clearly now the flames are gone.
Sloclap shoots, then scores as Rematch hits 3 million players, proving there's a surprising overlap between sports and fighting game fans
News Playing footsies.
Doing a victory lap, Dune: Awakening publisher reveals that 1 million players have already huffed 6 billion grams of spice
News Dune: Awakening is now "Funcom's fastest selling game ever."
The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'
News "Companies just started taking away your purchases, nobody stopped them, and it slowly got normalised."
Modders put the Executor into Elden Ring because if FromSoftware won't give us Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2, we'll do it ourselves
News Who needs a tear?
