Latest articles by Harvey Randall
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.
Starfinder: Afterlight snags Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark to voice its narrator, and he's just as Arthur Morgan about it as you'd expect
News "Somewhere between the stars, and a soft purr, there's a story that I can finally be a part of.
Our pick for 2024's best tactics game just got a community pack of featured levels—which ignore the dev's difficulty balance goals because 'our community, god bless em, have no such qualms'
News Also, it's 40% off this week.
Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft are starting to meet in the middle on modding, and it's a strange new world for MMOs and their AddOn communities
SAME DIFF Two households, both alike in genre, in fair AddOn-a, where we lay our scene.
Final Fantasy 14 says screw it, you want healers in platemail, you can have them—promises to remove all class and level restrictions on glamour
News In the most normal voice ever: YES! YES!
Anime-based therapy is being trialed in Japan
News Well, to be specific, visual novel-based therapy.
Arc Raiders' design director says 'we will maintain the current aesthetic that we have' when it comes to skins, so no 'T-Rex costume running around'
News But what about Left Shark?
GDQ's upcoming event, Games Done Queer, has already become a fierce rallying cry of support for LGBT rights in the US: 'We had 450 hours of content submitted for the 36-hour show'
NO RUNNING "We're here, we're bigger than you think we are, and we can band together when it's important."
Only 3% of Stop Killing Games' EU initiative signees have failed verification so far—which is a great sign it'll progress to the European Commission
News 689,035/1,448,270 signatures have been verified.
Legion Remix characters from 'Quality Assurance' guild breach containment, enter WoW proper with their godlike power intact—forcing Blizzard to quarantine Remix for the time being
News Sneaking them artefacts through security.
One of the most shocking moments in Critical Role's 4th D&D campaign was planned from the jump—yet with enough left to chance that Alexander Ward 'did leave the table thinking I'd really f*cked up'
News Necr-oh no-mancer.
Microsoft might be silent, but Halo's co-creator and Halo 2's design lead have called the US government's 'Destroy the Flood' analogy comparing immigrants to parasites 'absolutely abhorrent'
News "It really makes me sick seeing Halo co-opted like this."
You can get every single one of Telltale's The Walking Dead seasons for $5—which is around $1 per 10 hours of game
News It won't cost you an arm.
