Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Schedule 1 creator had a backup plan if Steam rejected it—pack up the product, don a farmer's hat, and 'pivot it to be a farming game' like Stardew Valley
News Jesse. We've gotta restore the community centre, Jesse.
Dispatch's original script would've let you pick 3 heroes like 'starter Pokémon', snagging Invisigal, Waterboy, or Mr Whiskey to pull under your wing
News Professor Oak: Are you an Invisigal, or a Waterboy?
Tavern Keeper's early access is already a crunchy management sim, a cosy blanket, an interior decor game, and a furniture designer all at once
INN CREDIBLE A comfy videogame turducken.
The voice of Geralt isn't worried about Ciri's recasting in The Witcher 4: 'I think she's going to do a great job'
News Passing on the mantle.
Team Cherry says that 'if there were ever other' Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they'd all be self-contained and 'exist alongside one another'
News So no Silksong 2, huh.
Grok AI temporarily so sycophantic it claims Elon Musk is the best at drinking pee, and other things I'm not going to put in a headline, you can't make me
News Musk blamed the snafu on "adversarial prompting".
WoW game director steps in to reassure players that its AddOn overhaul is a work in progress, and the temporary death of cosmetic mods is simply 'collateral damage that we are working on repairing'
News Beta means beta.
NCSoft launches MMO with terrible monetisation—puts out emergency broadcast 15 hours later, promising to fix it while its wax wings melt: 'We were complacent and unthoughtful'
News MMOwn-goal.
Dispatch proves the death of Telltale-style games was a mere mirage, as it rakes in 2 million players: 'Wouldn't be here without you'
News We could be (2 million) heroes.
WoW's proposed transmog overhaul is 1 step forward, 2 steps back, and has Azeroth's fashionistas rioting: 'Blizzard truly are the masters at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory'
News I'm not entirely convinced this is better.
Right after 'saving' Hytale from 7 years of development limbo, its new owner releases 16 minutes of 'raw and broken' gameplay footage to 'break the curse once and for all'
News "I promised players videos, screenshots and blog posts. One day after the acquisition, I’m keeping that promise"
Staring down the barrel of a rough 2026, Ubisoft's UK arm says we're less interested in 'one time purchase' games and all about that live service dripfeed
News I'm not sure about that one, chief—or at least I can be, for $9.99 a month.
There is no glitch—turns out, you need more than just heroic dialogue choices to get Dispatch's best ending, you've gotta be good at your job, too
News Lead by example.
Poor Monster Hunter Wilds gets politely thrown under the bus as Capcom promises Resident Evil Requiem won't run as badly
News "Resident Evil Requiem differs from Monster Hunter Wilds."
FF14 director Naoki Yoshida has big plans for the MMO after Dawntrail's roughspots—hinting at A Realm Reborn-style overhaul
News If you throw another moon at me, I'm gonna lose it.
In defense of tab-targeting: MMO devs have been trying to put dodge rolls in their games for 10+ years to avoid WoW, and it's never worked
ON MY TAB Only difference is, we still need a new game to prove 'em wrong.
Borderlands 4's sales were 'a little softer than we would've liked' due to PC performance issues, says Take-Two CEO, but he's confident it'll have a long tail
News It's okay, Gearbox. One in four games have the same issue. It's nothing to be ashamed about.
Ubisoft CEO claims it just stopped feeding the trolls when it came to Assassin's Creed: Shadows, which 'very quickly eliminated the fights, which were just fake fights'
News That's all great, Guillemot, but I have a couple notes.
WoW's game director says they don't want combat AddOns to do anything the base UI doesn't: 'The overarching goal of the changes in Midnight is to level the playing field'
News Interface-off.
Rockstar co-founder moved to New York to help create GTA, in part, because he got chased by a guy with a machete: 'I thought—this is not good—and I ran off'
News That's… somehow appropriate.
New World proved that the hunger for a modern MMO is clearly there—but the only studios with enough cash to make them are too shareholder-brained to try
MAD WORLD You can't become a titan if you never get time to grow.
Final Fantasy 14's voice actor for beloved catboy G'raha Tia gets crowned sexiest man alive, entirely vindicating my taste in fictional men
News We stay winning.
We need to commit—it's time crunchy, complicated RPGs made their mainstream comeback for good
CRUNCH TIME Scrap the streamline.
