Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Don't Kill Them All make you keep orc calm so orc not smash resources—big smart, neat game, like demo much
News Me can be different kind of orc.
It just keeps getting worse—Microsoft reportedly already had Ninja Theory in its crosshairs while pushing the announcement trailer for its next game
News "Microsoft had already planned to sunset or split with the studio."
Mistfall Hunter's demo might finally convince me, a souls sicko, to give extraction games a proper go—even if it's more modern God of War than Nightreign
News Kratos, is that you?
Destiny 2 comes full circle as players honour the tradition of pushing bosses to their deaths—this time by becoming a porcupine and smacking them with a void football
News No, really.
Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything: 'Instead of punishing children, the government needs to target the source'
No quick fixes PC Gamer's writers and editors tackle the impending ban on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.
As Xbox eyes layoffs, Microsoft's CEO says its videogames aren't monetised enough—so it's not the cancelled games or $68.7 billion deals or AI overspending, then
News Watch that line go up, up up up up up.
Both Final Fantasy 7 remakes are dirt cheap right now in a franchise sale—but I think you should play FF12 and enjoy the series' best combat system at a discount, too
News Gambits, my beloved.
2 entire years after being raked over the coals for it, Dragon's Dogma 2 is removing a bunch of those silly little microtransactions that weren't even P2W anyway
News Was it worth it? No.
Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies vet tells me the theme park 'assembly line' MMO just isn't viable anymore, especially as dev costs spike: 'We hit the wall'
CANARY, COALMINE "The MMO audience feels underserved and overmonetized, that's how they feel about what's going on."
The best Baldur's Gate 3 mods
MODS Buff yourself up for a lone wolf run, or if that's not your style, maybe buff up your party with eight characters? Mods make many things possible.
I've beat Ascension 10 with every character in Slay the Spire 2, and these are the Silent cards I recommend
SLY SHIV REPEAT How to climb the Ascensions as Slay the Spire's silent rogue.
Witchspire is a charming Palworld-esque survival crafting game that replaces the unpaid monster labour with magic and whimsy
News A pretty familiar game. Get it? Because of the witches? Ah, nevermind.
WoW Classic players are in an arms race against annoying RMT casinos, but Blizzard's working on strategies so 'they will hopefully piss off'
News The house always wins.
After a 'corporate mandate' demanded they help with Call of Duty, Toys for Bob studio head says it took 'many mini miracles' to buy their independence from Activision
News "We knew that it wasn't the right fit."
Pathfinder creators Paizo have $10 million of inventory stuck in a warehouse somewhere because of Diamond Comics, forcing it to lay off staff
News "Paizo and dozens of other publishers have been in court ever since, fighting to reclaim our own products."
Both lawyers in case use hallucinating AI, causing judge to throw up hands, bar them for 2 years, fine everybody, and call the whole thing off for 60 days
News I believe the legal term is "absolute malarkey".
Stars Reach could be the second coming of the sandbox MMO, with player-built cities and 40+ Star Wars Galaxies-style professions to give me hope
STAR SHOOTING "Players have practically invented Steam Power."
Guild Wars 3 won't have a 'battle pass fee buried in it', says studio head: 'We're not gonna hold their time hostage'
News ArenaNet's not giving it a pass.
Summer Game Fest no-shows: The big games that were absent from 2026's showcases
NO SHOWS Who's out for Summer? Who's out forever?
Into the Wind is a gorgeous, Ghibli-esque adventure about taking over your missing uncle's delivery service, but with more dogfighting in your aeroplane bike
News It's a bike, it's a plane, it's delivery-man!
A shooter we called 'one of the boldest, freshest games' of 2023 is getting a sequel: El Paso, Elsewhere 2 sends a slo-mo vampire into the void
News The stakes are high.
Outward 2, the sequel to a survival action RPG we gave an 89% to, is in open beta now
News Alright, I'm heading out(ward).
Rivage is a time loop puzzle game where something's gone terribly wrong, power's at a premium, and your salvation's a mysterious arcade machine
News Going loopy in space.
