Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Loving MMOs in 2026 is an exercise in frustration, grief, and moving on
CLOSING IN Allow me to get a little existential.
A treehouse bundle in WoW costs a whopping $75, and while I know exactly who Blizzard's made it for, that doesn't mean I feel good about it
News Making bank, but at what cost?
I just watched someone try to explain Deadlock to Joe Rogan for 6 minutes, and surprisingly, they kinda nailed it
News Locked in.
Former ESO boss Matt Firor talks about the death of unrealised MMO Project Blackbird: 'Microsoft is Microsoft'
News "A giant successful videogame on the Microsoft level was frankly not that stimulating to them."
MMO vet Matt Firor was going to make Fallout Online in 2007, but Interplay 'went totally dark on me' and he went to Bethesda to make ESO instead
News What could've been.
Slay the Spire 2 devs weren't going to make a sequel, but then the publisher handling the first game's ports shut down and things got 'very murky'
News "I guess we were a little naïve."
Blizzard's former president wanted there to be a WoW 2 rather than 'the same WoW 1 expansions over and over re-skinned'
News World of Morecraft.
Fallout co-creator wants to make one last game before he retires 'for the second time'
News Tim Cain's considering dipping back into the industry for one last go.
Final Fantasy 14's promised 'public fields' redesign could fix complaints I've had about the MMO for years—here's what I'm hoping for
Fated Please, please, please.
Star Wars Galaxies' tragic fate caused FF14's devs to keep the old job designs available for Evercold's overhaul: 'Players did not take that very well'
News "I didn't want to just suddenly remove what we've been used to."
Blizzard's former president says 'WoW has to reset' over disastrous patch, and I really wouldn't go that far
News I don't think we should all be panicking just yet.
WoW came back from the brink because Blizzard ran it like a live service game—but now that same tactic's threatening everything
HOLD UP It might be time for Blizzard to slow down.
Most MMOs have so many expansions, it's hard to keep track of them all—can you tell our clever fakes from the real ones?
EXPAND YOUR MIND Do you know your shapes from your warcrafts?
Blizzard apologises for WoW's latest bug-ridden patch: 'We will do better'
News "The 12.0.5 patch launch was not up to our standards."
Blizzard buffs my fav WoW spec like a vengeful genie—giving me a huge damage boost that's bound to get all my party members killed because they can't see anything
News Where there's smoke, there's… probably fire? Who's to say.
WoW's latest patch is drowning in bugs, with players worried that Blizzard is struggling to keep its head above water
News The hand is closer to Midnight.
Fallout: New Vegas dev says Bethesda made the studio sit through 'a whole powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong'
News "Bethesda used review scores against us."
You know it's bad for AI when even Peter Molyneux, king of overpromising, is tepid on its use in game dev: 'I think we have to be very, very careful'
News Well, that's a surprise.
Despite microtransaction woes at launch, MMO sequel Aion 2 will go global this year
News Picking up Steam.
Supergiant drops a Hades 2 patch with a bunch of new dialogue, better romances, and buffs to the game's weakest god
News Good gods.
After making Mythic+ slightly too easy in World of Warcraft: Midnight, Blizzard's adding new high-end rewards for the sweats
News A reason to get back in the saddle.
Morbid Metal is a deeply satisfying hack 'n' slash with some subpar roguelike elements, but hey, that's what early access is for
News Not even its final form.
WoW's Burning Crusade Classic servers are removing the time-honoured tradition of dungeon boosting
News No boosts for you.
