Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Tavern Keeper's Next Fest demo, which now has an endless mode, might just steal hours of your time making custom decor alone
News Which'll be good practice, since the game comes out in Early Access next month.
Final Fantasy 14's latest patch finally has me excited to log into Dawntrail again—I just wish it didn't take Square Enix 15 months to get here
A NEW DAY Riding home.
I've been training my whole life for a battle royale like Final Sentence, it's just a shame the demo is a tad undercooked right now
News Keyboard smashing.
Ninja Gaiden 4 directors say a 'sense of fairness' is vital for difficult games: 'If the player gets killed unreasonably, it's hard for them to reflect and think about what they could've done'
News If at first you don't succeed, try and shuriken.
The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
Kensai/Mage There are so many ways to play this game.
Starfinder: Afterlight could become one of my favourite CRPGs—even if the studio's co-founders are 'more scared about huge success than a bit of failure' when it comes to their big Kickstarter debut
STARRY EYED Looks like we've got liftoff.
Telltale-esque superhero management sim Dispatch was originally going to be a live-action TV show before it became a videogame, but then 'a thing called Covid hit'
News That didn't stop The Bear and Barry from inspiring the script, though.
Activision claims 97% of cheaters it catches in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 are banned within 30 minutes, thanks to secure boot and Ricochet
News "Our upgraded systems caught them faster than ever."
After telling Borderlands 4 player to 'game that sh*t', Randy Pitchford finds out that you cannot, in fact, game that sh*t—says 'well, sh*t', confirms it's a bug and that it'll be fixed 'within the next two weeks'
News Ask and ye shall receive.
MMO players just don't want a rigid casual/hardcore divide anymore—and all the big games know it
NO DIVIDE Goodbye cliff—hello, slope.
Critical Role: Campaign 4's first 13-player ensemble episode is chaotic, messy, and gripping D&D—and I feel like I've just seen a magician pull a fully-formed rabbit out of a hat
News All my interests have aligned at once.
World of Warcraft: Midnight's design director wasn't sure players would enjoy Delve bosses jumping you, but 'it turns out people really like that', so now we're getting Prey
News Getting ganked in a controlled environment.
EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: 'It's hard to imagine that you'd have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse'
News Also, the debt. The $20 billion debt thing.
All Silksong Mossberry locations for the Berry Picking quest
Many berry Help the Moss Druid cook up her creation by tracking down these fruits.
As World of Warcraft winds down its combat AddOn support, director Ion Hazzikostas is all composure about rule-breakers because 'Frankly, this is far from the first time'
News "Going back 20 years, people used to be able to use AddOns like Decursive … we broke that functionality."
World of Warcraft: Midnight deep dive reveals a continent-hopping questline as part of its main campaign, a cosy 'Arcantina' hub, and the release date of player housing's early access
News At home in time for the holidays.
One of last year's best Metroidvanias, Nine Sols, currently has an entirely different first-person horror game tucked inside its Steam betas
News Please be a sequel, please be a sequel, please be a sequel.
Borderlands 4's Thursday patch will buff the game's cast, but UI improvements are coming later
News "Sort-by" filters remembering your choices, "mark as trash" bugs, and Firmware updates are all on Gearbox's list.
Borderlands 4 dev clears up the difference between Skill Damage and Action Skill damage, and I feel like a combat log is in order so I didn't have to find this out on a Reddit thread
News Let me see the numbers.
All Silksong crest locations and the best crest
Crest easy Change your attacks, moveset, and bind ability by acquiring these upgrades.
Critical Role's new DM wants you to know he's absolutely fine running a D&D game for 13 people and 3 groups: 'This is my favorite thing in the world'
News "I have to keep reporting to people that my mental health is at an all time high."
Silksong's Any% speedrun is already below 1 hour, in case you were worried this game would be too hard to clown on
News Silking on my song 'till I get phar past the loom.
Jagex CEO says he's happy to take revenue hits to fix RuneScape 3's microtransaction and 'integrity' problem
News Pride events? Bit of a gamble. Microtransactions? Defcon 3.
