Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Baldur's Gate 3 defies the laws of physics by being a singleplayer RPG with more daily users in 2024 than its release year
News Staying power.
Helldivers 2 players endure sarcastic propaganda that commends their 'undeniable tactical brilliance' after the 'blob' abandons a nearly-won objective for basically no reason
News Democracy in action.
Pathfinder 2e celebrates the 1st anniversary of its remaster by smashing D&D for value, offers $888 worth of new books for $45 with latest Humble Bundle
News That's a lotta PDFs.
Arcane's showrunners would like to shake things up after 9 years, which is part of why it's ending with Season 2
News Riot's co-founder also says "there are lots of other stories to tell".
After having to buff event rewards 4 times in a year, WoW director Ion Hazzikostas admits there's 'a pattern' and that 'we may tend to err on the conservative side'
News You can always buff later.
From extensive lore-friendly research to diabolical wordplay: All the different ways we name our beloved videogame characters
Aliases Making a name for ourselves.
D&D's 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide has finally had it, passive-aggressively denounces peasant railguns, capitalist artificers, and weaponised bags of rats
News I didn't know rulebooks could get sassy, but here we are.
Uh oh—Helldivers 2's state-owned missile platform players voted into existence is blowing them up, with Arrowhead giving players free shield generators while it figures out what happened
News Voting for the "leopards blew up my face" party.
World of Warcraft might not have invented the wheel, but it certainly made it popular—and 20 years on, the MMO titan has fundamentally changed gaming's DNA
LIVING SERVICE Love it or hate it, it's probably what we deserve.
If you were too relaxed playing Webfishing, you might like this fishing roguelike shooter where your catches can mercilessly gun you down
News Lake of Creatures is out today.
At last, democracy has come to Helldivers 2: A new Democracy Space Station lets players vote on which planet gets bombarded for truth and justice every 24 hours
News Your vote matters! For 24 hours.
Gosh, I think D&D's finally done it—the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide actually does a decent job of teaching you how to run a game
INTO DMS Some bad habits aside, it's a huge improvement.
Player housing is coming to World of Warcraft after 20 years, though you'll have to wait until the next expansion: 'It's a tremendously large undertaking'
News Our house, in the middle of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft's next major patch will let you drift in a car '4 to 5 times faster' than a normal ground mount, all while learning 'more about goblin culture than ever before'
News Patch 11.1, Undermine(d), will be drifting into the game early next year.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's leap forward in trans inclusion comes from a heartfelt place, but its problems left me feeling frustrated, angry, and tired
FROM THE HEART "Don't tell me who I am."
Webfishing dev thought 'like 100 people would play it ever', thanks the 24,000+ people who flooded in to play their 'silly project', and hints at future updates
News "I've got loads of ideas."
Nintendo seems to have set up shop in the condemned home of Switch emulator Ryujinx, claiming its domain name for its own
News The site of Ryujinx's demise.
Astarion has breached the Vatican—Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in Vatican City, says Larian's director of publishing
News "Wish I could see their mod list. Bet it's absolutely gnarly."
Square Enix apologises for messing up hairstyle competition winner's submission in Final Fantasy 14 'due to limitations such as the polygon count'
News Curl machine broke.
Final Fantasy 14 is still the load-bearing, reliable breadwinner for Square Enix, even with Dawntrail's bumpy post-launch reception
News How long does a life preserver stay inflated?
'We are dirt cheap': Arcane's showrunners say the 'most expensive' animated series ever produced isn't that expensive, if you think about it
News They have a point.
FF14 is finally fixing the fact my carefully-constructed portraits keep reverting to a goddamn driver's licence photo whenever I change my goddamn gear
News An end to the embarrassment, at long last.
The six best Dragon Age companions ever
FRIEND GAME A snarky witch, a beardless dwarf, and a talking statue walk into Ferelden...
