Latest articles by Harvey Randall
One of The Elder Scrolls Online's oldest problems, overland difficulty, is finally getting addressed—but the devs are 'starting really small' because 'we didn't want to take a big swing and miss'
News "We can turn this into, over time, a more fully-fledged and robust system."
The Elder Scrolls Online's director says doing the same-old yearly patch cycle wasn't 'going to cut it' if the MMO developer 'wanted to have a shot at reaching that 30-year mark'
SCROLL UP "Nothing is off the table right now."
Stellar Blade's director says AI can see 'one person can perform the work of 100 people' but that won't wind up in job losses, somehow
News Strong as ten regular men, definitely*.
Even after its success, Embark design lead is still lukewarm on AI usage for Arc Raiders: 'I don't think it's fallen any way or the other'
News Neutr-AI-lity.
Larian's learnt a lot from Baldur's Gate 3 going into Divinity, including the fact that hand-crafted loot is probably better: 'Randomization did not save us much time'
News Trimming the phat from the loot.
Fanatical bundle lets you snag 3 Fallout games, Disco Elysium, a ton of Steamworld, and more for roughly $3 a pop
News I'd take that deal. You'd take that deal? Damn good deal.
VATS almost didn't survive the transition to Bethesda, says Fallout 3 dev: 'We only just got that working by the time we shipped'
News "There was a long period where it was like … is anyone even going to use this?"
Square Enix asks early access players not to spoil a remake of a 25-year-old game—on the one hand, there are changes to the main storyline, but on the other hand, are you kidding me
News With respect: People are simply gonna.
The Elder Scrolls Online devs promise that its new seasonal model 'is the beginning of a major shift' for the decade-old MMO: 'Frankly, we think we could make the game more rewarding and exciting'
News 'Tis the season.
9 years after it aired, fans discover a Dr Who episode absolutely copy-pasted a Skyrim dragon PNG from a wiki for some background VFX
News Fus-Roh Who!
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead says they messed up a little by putting a ton of great endgame content next to a final boss you can easily outlevel: 'We weren't sure if our game was going to be that good'
News Renoir or not, here I come.
Final Fantasy 14's NA servers continue to struggle with DDoS attacks, likely due to a service provider's wonky nodes
News Some players report a VPN has helped, but it's still grim.
Hacker, dressed as the pink Power Ranger, takes down 3 white supremacist sites live on stage after scraping details with AI: 'Maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination'
News A good omen for 2026, if I've ever seen one.
Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt corrects player who thought he'd griped about Magicka being review bombed, says 'we got so-so reviews' in 2011 because of bugs—also, it was 'released without our knowledge'
News It was a wild wizard west out there.
No Rest for the Wicked lead spends New Year's Eve picking a fight with former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra over Diablo 4, who points out: 'You need to chill'
News Understatement of the year, and we're only five days in.
The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
Kensai/Mage There are so many ways to play this game.
2025's best soulslike wasn't Nightreign, it was a DLC for a game we all dismissed as a Bloodborne clone back in 2022
NO LIE Lies of P: Overture is a game no longer held down by its own strings.
They survived the MMO massacre of 2025, but 2026 is going to be a tense year for WoW and FF14: And for completely different reasons
BUCKLE UP It's all on the (on)line.
How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 made some of us fall in love with parrying, and as our resident parry sicko, I won't say 'I told you so'—actually no, wait, I will
GOOD TIMING I will do that.
Final Fantasy 14's latest patch has me hopeful for the MMO's story again—even though Square Enix still has a lot of good will to recover
TRAIN-ING ARC 7.4 is a sign of good things to come.
According to Steam, the average PC Gamer writer played 72 games this year (56% of which were new) and used a controller more than we'd like to admit
REPLAY Our scores, tallied up.
Brennan's latest trick on Critical Role is actually one he's done before—breaking with D&D tradition to let players choose when they level up, instead of just after they've taken a really good nap
News "A fun little way to keep things spicy."
WoW devs plan to 'whitelist' spells for use in combat mods and addons, and while it looks like Blizzard's going soft, I'm not sure that's the whole picture
News Pooling resources.
