Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Borderlands 1's artstyle overhaul filled Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford with dread because he thought he'd 'Have to go in and look at what they did' and 'shoot it in the head'
News Turns out? Absolutely the right call.
Capcom president says PS5 prices are why Monster Hunter Wilds' sales aren't doing so hot, and we're trying not to take that personally here at PC Gamer
News Hey! We're here too!
Wading into Helldivers 2's new Terminid hives to blow up their hearts, all as hordes of bugs swarm you is, unsurprisingly, exactly as cool as it sounds
GOT HIVES Arrowhead's co-op shooter goes from strength to strength.
Final Fantasy 14's latest patch makes surprise nerf to an arduous 9-year-old dungeon grind, and I hope there's more like it to come
News Aetherpooling your resources.
If you're like me and fell off Valve's other MOBA Deadlock, these last few months of updates are worth coming back for
LOCKED IN Faster, frantic, fun.
'Magicka scares me', says Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt, since it was made at a time where Arrowhead was much smaller—but he'd still like to revisit the series 'at some point'
News Things have changed.
'Min spec is certainly one of our most important': Battlefield 6 dev says low-end build players were a 'meaningful percentage' of the beta, and he aims to keep it that way
News No soldier left behind.
How well do you know your MMORPGs? Test your memory for talents, spells, and classes with our new quiz
TRIVIA+ From WoW, to SW:TOR, to DDO—time to put that otherwise useless trivia to the test.
RPG throws the ring of monetization into Mount Doom, drops gacha mechanics right before launch to avoid 'pay-to-win mechanics and forced spending as much as possible'
News Into the fires with thee.
Borderlands has been too hot, too cold, and will now be just right, says Randy Pitchford: 'We can see those times we've gone too far'
News Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Almost 1,700 days—or 4.6 years—of daily Silksong news later, its brave watchman is finally ready to 'play Silksong in peace, however I want' and rest
SILKGONE "It's still kind of overwhelming, but I think now I've kinda got it down, the stuff that I need to do."
In the wake of shutting down a highly popular mod, Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P shares deeply earnest blog about 'mods, their use, and the culture surrounding them'
News It's a change in tone.
Final Fantasy 14's incoming choose-your-own difficulty will be 'the general direction' going forward, but Yoshi-P suggests they might need to trim future patches to compensate
News "This is the general direction that we've set for Final Fantasy 14 moving forward."
FF14 director Yoshi-P is 'kind of glad and relieved' that Dawntrail's story is over, because players will have 'the fate of the world on their shoulders' again—but that was never the expansion's problem
News I'm excited to take center stage again, but I never stopped saving reality.
WoW devs want to 'step back' from the 'world-ending' stakes where you get called a pitiful mortal lots, and back to quests like 'oats for Blanchy'—presumably without sending the horse to hell afterwards
News "Housing is going to be another place where we start to do that."
Helldivers 2's upcoming patch will see you diving deep into Terminid nests where your stratagems won't save you—also, the bugs have dragons now
News Harrowing nest.
Borderlands 3 'sometimes felt like parody' of itself, say writers, but 4 aims to fix that: 'If I tried to put a meme in the game, he would come to my house with a baseball bat'
News The aim is to land on "humor, levity, and authentic character storytelling that takes itself seriously."
All MMO quest journals are a massive waste of potential, except for FF14's, which was good for exactly one storyline
META-KNIGHT Ishikawa popped off, but her trick hasn't been repeated since.
Everyone's heading back to Hollow Knight for one last go before Silksong comes out—the game's all-time Steam peak is rising as I write this headline
News Ah, shaa, here we go again.
'No AI is being used': Sekiro anime studio Qzil.la lands in the hotseat after suspected past AI usage raises eyebrows—reassures fans that it's not the case this time
News Slop or smear?
Critical Role's next D&D campaign will have 13 players and 3 parties—and I have no idea where Brennan is getting this energy from
News We're going West Marches, baby.
Why did Team Cherry's devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: Silksong? 'All we could really say is, we're still working on it', so they stopped doing that
News "At the time we thought we'd go quiet for a year or two, then the game would come out."
Silksong finally has a release date, officially, from Team Cherry and everything—putting an end to over half a decade of Silksanity
News I skong'd it my way.
