Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Former Arkane vets' new studio isn't going to try 'trend chasing', and in hindsight, thank God
News Lessons learned.
Redfall developers begged Microsoft to come back and finish its last patch: 'I know we don't work here anymore, but can we please release this?'
News "We then got laid off, but we had in the pipe version 1.4."
Take-Two's former AI guy is, in a twist, skeptical about AI now: 'The guy should be selling you the gold if he's actually got the gold'
News "If any of this sh*t actually did what people are billing it as, they would not be talking about it."
Fired Rockstar workers say you shouldn't boycott GTA 6 for them: 'We spent years pouring our hard work, skill, and creativity into making GTA'
News "That doesn't mean we want you to let Rockstar off the hook."
Star Wars: Galactic Racer's multiplayer 'tour' mode is a chaotic arcade racer spliced with a MOBA, and that somehow works brilliantly
FULL CIRCUIT Going on tour.
Star Citizen has a disastrously laggy stream with horrendous vibes, which isn't a great look when you're past $1 billion in funding
News "We're at time—it's your show, wrap it up."
RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them
LOVE-HATE You're in this together.
The bigwigs who want AI-generated NPCs and writing think you're too dumb to appreciate a good story—don't prove them right
WRITE AND WRONG The delight's in the details.
After a public scrap between CEO and former writer, Saber Interactive finally adds AI disclaimer to Steam page and doubles down: 'AI can and should help shape gamer experiences'
News It's been a wild ride.
Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'
News Sony-only.
Videogame lawyer says it's become 'just boilerplate' this year to include no-AI clauses in contracts: 'It's not worth the legal liability'
News Looks like the law is finally catching up.
Crimson Desert has done so well it'll be getting a DLC this year, with more details coming sooner than I expected given Pearl Abyss' breakneck pace
News Pearl Abyss' new darling is getting more special treatment.
Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler
News Ahh, who needs a mask, anyway.
GTA 6 might not technically be $100, but it's had its cake and ate it too as pre-orders are 'skewing more to the premium edition'
News Schrodinger's price change.
After 10 years, Terraria's biggest mod shuts down due to an 'irrecoverably tainted reputation' and grooming allegations
News "Almost all passion we've had for the mod has been soured."
Star Wars: Galactic Racer's singleplayer is a clever roguelike gauntlet I could easily sink hours into
NOW THIS IS [RACING] Descenders, is that you, my beloved?
Square Enix's 88% profit-bump financial report gives me hope for FF14, suggesting the MMO's finally not having to carry the company for once
News Things are looking up.
Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'
News "The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
Deltarune's 'The Third Sanctuary' is an affront to time signatures, and also one of my favourite songs in a videogame ever
RIDE THE RHYTHM The drummer will say "please" and then "make it stop".
WoW developers reflect on Midnight's first season—a world without AddOns, task overload, and Prey
AROUND THE CLOCK Curse of Ul'atek comes out next week, but how has Midnight's first season gone in the eyes of its devs?
WoW's changing how world bosses work because they've 'really been a little bit lackluster' in recent years, says dev
News "A lot of players just cluster into a boss. It drops in a few moments."
Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3
News Hell, hell, hell has its laws. ToS, ToS, effects and the cause.
The first GTA 6 gameplay reveal will debut on Netflix later this month, as the streaming service tries yet again to get a piece of that videogame pie
News Huh. Okay then.
