Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs
NOBODY WINS "Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."
UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology says you're on the side of 'extreme pornographers' and 'predators' if you want the Online Safety Act walked back
News Finally, we're safe from the nasty predators in (check notes) cycling forums.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 uses a plugin called KawaiiPhysics, a free engine built to 'cutely animate things' that's used in a ton of popular games from gachas to soulslikes
News C'est kawaii, desu non?
The majority of teams in the top 100 for Destiny 2's latest contest mode raid cheated—and as an MMO player, I am neither shocked nor surprised
News Raid trackers snitch, as usual.
Dev insists a glossed-up version of Daggerfall's aesthetic was 'invented' by AI, which is a bit like saying I can invent a new plane by drawing a picture of one
News If it doesn't actually work, it's not invented yet, is it?
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers devs promise performance fixes are on the way, as it fights a flock of negative Steam reviews: 'These problems should never have occurred'
News Fallen Steam rating.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs are the new popular kids on the RPG block, visiting both Hideo Kojima and Final Fantasy creators Square Enix for 'a creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas'
News Popular, tu vas être pop-u-lar.
Final Fantasy 14 finally seems like it wants to make content scale to serve casual, midcore, and hardcore players: 'A deep dungeon for everyone'
News "If we add 10 content [types], I hope players can find 7 things to do."
Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout
News An absolute mess.
Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games set to lay off another 36 employees after a 'redundancy consultation process', delays Directive 8020 to 2026
News "We anticipate losing" is a funny way to say "we're laying off".
'There's a strong desire on our side to make sure that our games are preserved': Obsidian promises your Grounded 1 save files won't be compost after Grounded 2 comes out
News It's "no commentary on the Stop Killing Games stuff", though.
ESO devs at ZeniMax reel from Microsoft's 'hollow' layoff emails, with some wondering how a 'carcass of workers' is 'supposed to keep shipping award-winning games'
News "I don't care how many times they do it to try and make it seem normal—it's not."
A new city in Helldivers 2 will be named 'Gun' because 82,188 players voted for it—making it twice as popular as the other 4 options combined
News Why did love put a Gun on my land?
Gustave's voice actor, Charlie Cox, admits he needs to 'play the game' after asking if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's goofball sidekick is the 'big baddie at the end'
News Bless.
Stop Killing Games' EU initiative hits 1.4 million signatures—and if at least 1 million are valid, it's off to the European Commission
News Hot dog, they've only gone and done it.
'Dangerous on a whole new level'—while Steam's policy change is new, the shadow of credit card meddling has been looming for a while, with Nier: Automata's Yoko Taro sounding the alarm last year
News "A security hole that endangers democracy itself."
D&D continues to shed talent to other TTRPGs, as its former VP of franchise and product joins Vampire: The Masquerade creator White Wolf
News Bleeding out.
WoW continues to eat FF14's lunch with its housing system on paper—says it'll just make more neighbourhoods if they're full, and you can have private guild ones, too
News You get a house, and you get a house, and you get a house!
The new 'UK Video Games Council' has announced its members—including reps from Larian Studios, Microsoft, and non-profit advocacy groups UKIE and TIGA
News All rise for the inauguration.
Silksong subreddit hallucinates an analog horror called Snosk, ritually sacrifices a mod to be their very own Hollow Knight, continues to have a normal one, nothing to see here
News The shadows move, and in the shadows is Skong.
Lies of P isn't my favourite soulslike, but Overture is one of the best DLCs in the whole genre
LIE TO ME Round 8 has a bright, glorious future if it keeps this up.
The Last of Us Part 2 has a 'chronological mode' now, in case you wanted to play through a story with all the finesse of a Wikipedia plot summary
News Who is this for?
World of Warcraft: The War Within's last major patch before Midnight drops early August, and it's time to go into space again
News Ghosts of K'aresh arrives August 5.
