Latest articles by Harvey Randall
World of Warcraft: Midnight deep dive reveals a continent-hopping questline as part of its main campaign, a cosy 'Arcantina' hub, and the release date of player housing's early access
News At home in time for the holidays.
One of last year's best Metroidvanias, Nine Sols, currently has an entirely different first-person horror game tucked inside its Steam betas
News Please be a sequel, please be a sequel, please be a sequel.
Borderlands 4's Thursday patch will buff the game's cast, but UI improvements are coming later
News "Sort-by" filters remembering your choices, "mark as trash" bugs, and Firmware updates are all on Gearbox's list.
Borderlands 4 dev clears up the difference between Skill Damage and Action Skill damage, and I feel like a combat log is in order so I didn't have to find this out on a Reddit thread
News Let me see the numbers.
All Silksong crest locations and the best crest
Crest easy Change your attacks, moveset, and bind ability by acquiring these upgrades.
Critical Role's new DM wants you to know he's absolutely fine running a D&D game for 13 people and 3 groups: 'This is my favorite thing in the world'
News "I have to keep reporting to people that my mental health is at an all time high."
Silksong's Any% speedrun is already below 1 hour, in case you were worried this game would be too hard to clown on
News Silking on my song 'till I get phar past the loom.
Jagex CEO says he's happy to take revenue hits to fix RuneScape 3's microtransaction and 'integrity' problem
News Pride events? Bit of a gamble. Microtransactions? Defcon 3.
Rematch is free to play for a long weekend after its Season 1 launch—and I'm currently torn between saving Olympus and having a kickabout
News Surely Hecate can wait just a little bit.
Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect
News This does not seem like the play.
Despite all appearances, upcoming F2P open-world RPG Ananta isn't a gacha game—only charging for cosmetics and furniture
News Today's pull? I re-examine my biases.
Crimson Desert's release date trailer bravely makes it through 1 minute of serious fantasy exposition before showing you its cool clockwork dragon and mech, and I love it for that
News Torn straight out of teenage-me's epic fantasies.
Helldivers 2 devs say players are 'absolutely right to expect better' after latest update's crashes and stumbles—promise mid-October patch and 'better communication'
News We're in the "it's so over" valley again, I see.
I just beat Silksong's Act 3, and I'm not just thrilled the game was hard—I'm glad it was mean to me, too
HARD SHELL Bench (im)press.
Ananta says hey, we can do a Spider-Man/Yakuza/Sifu/Batman: Arkham/GTA—but we'll put an anime bunny girl in our one
News Oops! All open worlds.
Borderlands 4 player finds bugged interaction that can cause 'Total Existence Failure' damage to endgame bosses without a proper build—and no legendary items or crit knives to be seen
News Oof.
Silksong's new patch delivers bug fixes and a soft nerf to everyone's beloved Cogfly—plus a vow to fix the awful Simplified Chinese translation with 'A new script, by a well-regarded team' in 3-4 weeks
News No more Wuxia.
Borderlands 4 is focusing on buffs, not nerfs—opting to 'start with underperforming gear/skills first' rather than its infinite-bleed god-knife
News Number go up, not down.
Fortnite will soon let creators earn money peddling items straight from their islands, throws a tomato at Roblox by comparing cuts for good measure
News My value from sales could beat up your value from sales!
I am so terribly glad I've learned you can easily reset all your cooldowns in Borderlands 4 before starting my shotgun grind
News About to farm a lego? Pay ol' Zed a visit, first.
Critical Role's new D&D campaign trailer has given me unshakable faith that whatever Brennan Lee Mulligan does with his galaxy brain and 13 players is going to be great
News I have complete and unshakable faith.
Borderlands 4 review: A slice of looter-shooter heaven trapped in UI hell
GUNS OUT True looter-shooter greatness in a messy package.
In the 16 years I've played this series, Borderlands 4 is the first entry that's made me want to do post-game grinding—Gearbox just needs to fix its dang Wildcard Missions first
GRINDSET MINDSET I've got that quest fever.
