Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Arc Raiders design director says players 'never worked together' in testing, but the emergence of care bear lobbies 'encourages us to lean toward giving opportunities to have friendly interactions'
News Catering to both PvE and PvP-heavy audiences is a "precarious position".
Deadlock's snazziest rich boy, Apollo, gets struck down by a bunch of nerfs after terrorising matches: 'Yoshi took him out back'
News Nerfed in Flawless Advance.
My next love after D&D, Pathfinder 2e, has a Fanatical bundle selling over $450's worth of books for around $15
News Dealfinder.
In its brave quest to never learn a single thing from science fiction, Meta has patented a literally ghoulish AI that keeps you posting long after you're dead and gone
News Don't worry, though, it's got "no plans to move forward with this example".
MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt
News "They are BOTH insane pathological narcissists," claims the investor.
I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead
LOCKED AWAY An RPG, an MMO, an FPS—I'll take anything, man.
Crimson Desert is made by the devs of MMO Black Desert, but it won't have any non-preorder microtransactions on launch: 'This is the premium experience, that is the transaction'
News Nary a cash shop in sight.
YouTuber hosts battle royale between 4 wizards from 4 different TTRPG systems—and boy does it end almost immediately, despite the DM's best efforts
News Pity the D&D wizard, who walked out of cover, cast Magic Missile on a goblin, and then got disintegrated.
Question time: What role—tank, healer, or DPS—do you actually play in MMORPGS, and why?
GROUP UP Party finder.
Hurry, you have less than 1 week to move to Norway and have a baby with someone: 'Lie together today, get GTA 6 free from us in 9 months'
News Note: Do not actually do this.
All of Deadlock's new heroes are now released—but please, pity the poor schmuck that spent anywhere between 252-378 hours pouring votes into Celeste, who came second to last
News That's around 13 hours of gaming a day for 19 days straight.
Arc Raiders had nearly 1 million concurrent players in January, and around 6 million 'weekly active users', claims Nexon—putting the extraction shooter on par with some of the biggest MMOs
News World of Arc-craft.
One of my favourite TTRPGs is releasing an expansion that goes from gothic horror heists to a psychedelic 60s sci-fi dystopia inspired by Deathloop, where the dead feed an oversaturated sky
News What's the Blades in the Dark equivalent of D&D's Spelljammer? The swingin' sixties, apparently.
Mewgenics has its very own Mr. Resetti that'll make 'a brain slushie' out of you and curse your cats if you save scum: 'No, seriously, I dish out IRL curses'
News Okay, I'll save my game, jeez!
Arrowhead wants Helldivers 2's assault on Cyberstan to really sell the promise of the Galactic War: 'We don't know how it will play out. We don't know if they will win'
News "We've tried to expand on this with almost every update to make this more impactful."
Deadlock releases the 5th hero in its new 6-hero lineup—Celeste, a floaty carnival performer with an ultimate that gives me war flashbacks to Dota 2
News Oh god. It's Lich again.
'It took about 5 years' for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that 'players actually liked the design choices we had made'
News Hindsight has about a 20% chance of scoring a headshot in VATS.
Fallout's original creators say that Fallout 3 and 4 aren't quite what they would've done, but 'sales say people love what they did'
News "I'm looking at my glass cabinet full of Fallout goodies."
The Cyborgs are coming back to Helldivers 2—and they're bringing 3 new units armed to the teeth with advanced technology, and also robo-roundhouse kicks
News "Leave us and there will be peace".
Blitzball is alive and well in Final Fantasy 14, and I spoke to the community of passionate fans who built an entire 140-page D&D-like system to play it: 'Once you start playing, you just can't stop'
BALLIN' "And everyone feels like they're part of something bigger."
Deadlock's next hero is Venator, a special agent of the Vatican who has 2 guns—also a grenade, a bear trap, and a crossbow that shoots holy stakes
News In the name of the Holy Father, I will lock & load.
'We've never considered adding difficulty settings to the Nioh series', says Nioh 3 game director, who gives players different ways to tackle challenges instead
News Skill issue.
Deadlock's newest hero, Silver, gets a soft rework just as I was getting used to her
News Less dog, more gun.
