Latest articles by Harvey Randall
GTA 6 might not technically be $100, but it's had its cake and ate it too as pre-orders are 'skewing more to the premium edition'
News Schrodinger's price change.
After 10 years, Terraria's biggest mod shuts down due to an 'irrecoverably tainted reputation' and grooming allegations
News "Almost all passion we've had for the mod has been soured."
Star Wars: Galactic Racer's singleplayer is a clever roguelike gauntlet I could easily sink hours into
NOW THIS IS [RACING] Descenders, is that you, my beloved?
Square Enix's 88% profit-bump financial report gives me hope for FF14, suggesting the MMO's finally not having to carry the company for once
News Things are looking up.
Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'
News "The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
Deltarune's 'The Third Sanctuary' is an affront to time signatures, and also one of my favourite songs in a videogame ever
RIDE THE RHYTHM The drummer will say "please" and then "make it stop".
WoW developers reflect on Midnight's first season—a world without AddOns, task overload, and Prey
AROUND THE CLOCK Curse of Ul'atek comes out next week, but how has Midnight's first season gone in the eyes of its devs?
WoW's changing how world bosses work because they've 'really been a little bit lackluster' in recent years, says dev
News "A lot of players just cluster into a boss. It drops in a few moments."
Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3
News Hell, hell, hell has its laws. ToS, ToS, effects and the cause.
The first GTA 6 gameplay reveal will debut on Netflix later this month, as the streaming service tries yet again to get a piece of that videogame pie
News Huh. Okay then.
The actors behind Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft will take to the stage for the Future Games Show at Gamescom this month
News We've got some evil residents in the building.
Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means
News Layoff season isn't over.
WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce
News Meeting them halfway.
Dragon's Dogma 2 will be getting an endgame hard mode difficulty in the future 'for seasoned players'
News Dragon scale-ing difficulty.
FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to 'be reasonable' because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: 'That would be putting the cart before the horse'
News Worlds collide.
Question time: What makes a 'good' grind in an MMO?
GRINDSET Hear me out, then hear me out 1,000 more times.
Nexus Mods finally tightens the screws on AI, though it's still playing softball with the tide of slop
News "Failure to correctly tag mods, including undisclosed generative AI usage, may be subject to moderation action."
Star Wars will also be coming to D&D, and I'm worried Hasbro's trying to turn a TTRPG into Magic: The Gathering again
News Secret draconic lair.
Old School RuneScape players are getting their boats stuck Suez Canal-style thanks to a narrow river in its new island: 'Helmp mee'
News Helmp, I need somebody, helmp, not just anybody.
Final Fantasy 7 remake director says he hopes Revelation will get 'some kind of physical edition' despite the industry and Sony's 'shift away' from discs
News A difficult disc-ussion.
FF14's new zone has a creepy backrooms void tucked just underneath it, filled with horrible milky ruins and what I deem to be far too many arms
News Ah, void-made horrors beyond my comprehension!
Clair Obscur developers see Sony's no-disk announcement as 'a sad decision', because they 'like to go outside, buy a game, and come back home with it'
News "I think it's part of the beauty of art too—that it's something tangible that you can touch."
I'm pretty sure we know Final Fantasy 14 Evercold's second job, unless Soken's playing a big trick on us
News Haven't you heard, about the bird?
