Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Former WoW designer tips hat to Marvel Rival's shifting meta as an antidote to MMOs with stale class design 'you have to change the meta continually'
News MMO-BA.
Final Fantasy 14 is, you guessed it, still making bank for Square Enix as Dawntrail rakes in the big bucks, though it might not be all sunshine and tacos
News Let's see how it all shakes out.
Sweet liberty, the Illuminate are moving an entire wormhole across Helldivers 2's galaxy map to slam dunk it into Super Earth like a basketball
News Welcome to the Space Dive. Here's your chance, do your dance, at the Space Dive.
Hi-Rez will only be giving 'minor updates' to Smite and Paladins now it's laying off around 70 employees, but don't worry, Smite 2 is the 'primary focus of the newly streamlined operations'
News "Active development of Paladins is being halted. No more major updates are expected".
WoW has raised over $2 million for charity CureDuchenne by selling a cute little fox, after being inspired by The Remarkable Life of Ibelin documentary
News "The World of Warcraft community has shown that gaming can be a powerful force for good."
'On a pirate ship, they'd toss the captain overboard': Larian head of publishing tears into EA after BioWare layoffs waste 'institutional knowledge'
News A profit drop doesn't have to mean a closed shop.
Arrowhead CEO says Games Workshop 'would love' a 40K Helldivers 2 crossover, 'but time and resources are finite and we've got our hands busy'
News For the Emperor of Democracy! Oh, and mankind, too.
Alas, it's been estimated that WoW's $90 FOMO dinosaur mount probably made Blizzard around $15-17 million, and at this point I think we all deserve to be here
News Open the door, cash on the floor, everybody bought the dinosaur.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review: Overambitious, earnest, and beautiful
CYBER-WARTS AND ALL Reckoning with flaws in the machine.
52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: 'He is Don Mario, he's my dad'
News Let's-a-go!
Arrowhead CEO reassures Helldivers 2 players in the wake of Johan Pilestedt's sabbatical that if they can keep the game 'going for 10 years, we will'
News "We'll support it to hell and back."
Monster Hunter Wilds director is proud of his horrible, oily giant octopus son that belches flame and writhes in the muck, says it's a technical challenge he's 'finally getting to attempt'
News "There are countless proposals that I've had rejected due to technical reasons."
Baldur's Gate 3's accidental PS5 release of Patch 8 has the theorycrafters in a flurry—though I'm just glad D&D's blade cantrips are officially here
News Hi, I'm theorycrafters.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth debuts to the highest peak concurrent users of the series on Steam—except for the MMO, naturally
News Full Steam ahead.
Larian scrambles to find out who exactly put Patch 8 on the PS5 early, meanwhile I, a PC unfortunate, rattle the bars of my enclosure
News "Welcome to the patch-8-is-on-ps5-for-some-reason-help-help-ahhh task group."
Marvel Snap apologises for US TikTok outage by throwing a bunch of free stuff at its players
News Oh, snap.
Swamped with 1,500+ LinkedIn invitations in 24 hours, the manager at Palworld's new publishing arm 'underestimated how much interest there would be'
News "We give you money. You make game."
Coder creates an 'infinite maze' to snare AI bots in an act of 'sheer unadulterated rage at how things are going' on the content-scraped web
News "Suck down as much bullsh*t as they have diskspace for, and choke on it."
Former BioWare vet says the studio is focused on a single game 'for the first time maybe ever' with Mass Effect 5—and whether that's good or bad is anyone's guess
News A narrowing focus.
Dataminers turn up potential details on WoW's upcoming player housing feature—from the Cataclysm Classic PTR, of all places
News Home, sweet home.
Yoshi-P says FF14 team is 'discussing' options to fight mod that can be used for stalking, like 'legal action' and, uh, asking them to stop
News This doesn't quite inspire confidence.
Guilty Gear: Strive's anime gets a full trailer and a release window for April, and I'm just hyped to see my girl Elphelt having a good time
News Rub-a-dub.
Sony gets people scratching their heads after region-locking purchases of Horizon Forbidden West, 10 entire months after its initial release
News Despite the unpopularity of Sony's PSN moves, the region-locking proceeds apace.
