Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout
News An absolute mess.
Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games set to lay off another 36 employees after a 'redundancy consultation process', delays Directive 8020 to 2026
News "We anticipate losing" is a funny way to say "we're laying off".
'There's a strong desire on our side to make sure that our games are preserved': Obsidian promises your Grounded 1 save files won't be compost after Grounded 2 comes out
News It's "no commentary on the Stop Killing Games stuff", though.
ESO devs at ZeniMax reel from Microsoft's 'hollow' layoff emails, with some wondering how a 'carcass of workers' is 'supposed to keep shipping award-winning games'
News "I don't care how many times they do it to try and make it seem normal—it's not."
A new city in Helldivers 2 will be named 'Gun' because 82,188 players voted for it—making it twice as popular as the other 4 options combined
News Why did love put a Gun on my land?
Gustave's voice actor, Charlie Cox, admits he needs to 'play the game' after asking if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's goofball sidekick is the 'big baddie at the end'
News Bless.
Stop Killing Games' EU initiative hits 1.4 million signatures—and if at least 1 million are valid, it's off to the European Commission
News Hot dog, they've only gone and done it.
'Dangerous on a whole new level'—while Steam's policy change is new, the shadow of credit card meddling has been looming for a while, with Nier: Automata's Yoko Taro sounding the alarm last year
News "A security hole that endangers democracy itself."
D&D continues to shed talent to other TTRPGs, as its former VP of franchise and product joins Vampire: The Masquerade creator White Wolf
News Bleeding out.
WoW continues to eat FF14's lunch with its housing system on paper—says it'll just make more neighbourhoods if they're full, and you can have private guild ones, too
News You get a house, and you get a house, and you get a house!
The new 'UK Video Games Council' has announced its members—including reps from Larian Studios, Microsoft, and non-profit advocacy groups UKIE and TIGA
News All rise for the inauguration.
Silksong subreddit hallucinates an analog horror called Snosk, ritually sacrifices a mod to be their very own Hollow Knight, continues to have a normal one, nothing to see here
News The shadows move, and in the shadows is Skong.
Lies of P isn't my favourite soulslike, but Overture is one of the best DLCs in the whole genre
LIE TO ME Round 8 has a bright, glorious future if it keeps this up.
The Last of Us Part 2 has a 'chronological mode' now, in case you wanted to play through a story with all the finesse of a Wikipedia plot summary
News Who is this for?
World of Warcraft: The War Within's last major patch before Midnight drops early August, and it's time to go into space again
News Ghosts of K'aresh arrives August 5.
Borderlands 4 certainly looks like it's taking its story more seriously: 'We wanted to go back to this sense of dread about the villain of our game'
News There's some fun cyberpunk DNA coursing through this thing.
Monster Hunter Wilds' poor post-launch reception bubbles up to the surface in shareholder meetings, though Capcom says it's 'committed' to fixing performance and content woes
News As the Steam reviews continue to rage, Capcom's putting out fires.
EA Japan exec laments Microsoft's crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for 'short-term results from large-scale investments'
News "In Japan, 'restructures' are very directly perceived as 'layoffs'."
Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders
News We're barely off to the races, and SGDQ has already raised over $124,000.
Rematch players are still crashing out over 'self-absorbed' ball hogs, and while I do get it, I can't help but wonder if some zen is in order
News Pass! To me! Back post!
The Silksong subreddit is conducting elaborate ritual ban sacrifices in an attempt to cure 'silksanity' and secure the game's release
News Good lord, what is happening in there?
Rematch plans to add an in-game report system, punish own-goal griefers with 3 days in the slammer, and slap cheaters with indefinite bans
News "We take these matters extremely seriously."
Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'
News An avocado toast for a new era.
