Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Summer Game Fest no-shows: The big games that were absent from 2026's showcases
NO SHOWS Who's out for Summer? Who's out forever?
Into the Wind is a gorgeous, Ghibli-esque adventure about taking over your missing uncle's delivery service, but with more dogfighting in your aeroplane bike
News It's a bike, it's a plane, it's delivery-man!
A shooter we called 'one of the boldest, freshest games' of 2023 is getting a sequel: El Paso, Elsewhere 2 sends a slo-mo vampire into the void
News The stakes are high.
Outward 2, the sequel to a survival action RPG we gave an 89% to, is in open beta now
News Alright, I'm heading out(ward).
Rivage is a time loop puzzle game where something's gone terribly wrong, power's at a premium, and your salvation's a mysterious arcade machine
News Going loopy in space.
Shroom and Gloom is a deckbuilding roguelike that has you growing together 2 different stacks of fungal cards
News Wait a second, they said this place would be filled with fun guys!
ReVamp, a castle defense roguelike where you command the armies of the dead for your mistress, is entering playtests soon
News Nothing's certain but undeath and taxes (and property management).
Arkheron, an isometric Diablo-like battle royale where you ascend a tower, is getting a more forgiving Spire mode to prepare you for the big leagues
News Arkheron playtests have been paying dividends.
Cassette Beasts 2002 is a GBA-style monster collection game where you can splice critters together with the power of music
News Groovy.
Abiotic Factor's going on holiday with a new DLC, Entropic Break—just ignore the flesh dimension, I'm sure it's fine
news Let's go to the beach, screech.
Question time: How often do you actually talk to strangers in MMOs?
HELLO SOLO Solo or hello?
Dominos Pizza UK has joined the gamer culture slapfight over God of War: Laufey, and I'd really like to just skip this part, please
News Not the way I wanted to round out my week.
I made treants awkwardly rub shoulders with ringwraiths in the Total War-style RTS roguelike Tabletop Tavern, and I'm surprised as anybody that it worked
News It takes all sorts.
Final Fantasy 14's solo only challenge runner overcomes impossible odds again, this time by blowing himself up
News Blue Mage to the rescue.
I played 3 hours of the Rayman Legends 3D remake—and while I miss the 2D artstyle, boy is it still pretty
HEY MAN, RAYMAN Rayman Legends Retold will have some new features, too.
The Rayman Legends remake has brought on Banjo Kazooie and DK64 composer Grant Kirkhope, who can apparently spin up gold in a day: 'He's super fast'
News "He comes in one day later with something unbelievable."
Subnautica 2's no-killing policy isn't because it's 'a game about pacifism', says design lead, but because players would 'master the crappy combat' over anything else
News "They'll be mad at you, and they'll sit there and take time to learn it."
Former BioWare producer says we could be saved from a world where there's 'no AAA games that aren't live services' by looking to movies
News Hello, Hollywood.
After being shut down by Blizzard, one of WoW's biggest private servers is saying screw it, we'll make our own MMO
News TurtleWoW's coming out of its shell.
A toast to the wild west weirdos of the MMO goldrush—from the game that unleashed pandora's lootbox, to a deeply strange mess based off a 1996 science fiction novel
ODD ONES Trendsetting freaks of 2005-2015, I salute thee.
One of the ideas pitched to save Destiny 2 was reportedly a 'Destiny Infinity' relaunch and a return to the annual expansion model
News Things could've been different—but enough to save it? Who knows.
Take-Two CEO says 'former Rockstar employees' have tried to match GTA's success and 'haven't been able to'—and while he doesn't name names, that's gotta sting for a certain someone
News MindsEye given the side-eye.
Resident Evil Requiem has a demo now, despite the fact it came out 3 months ago and sold over 7 million copies
News Giving a little Grace.
