Latest articles by Harvey Randall
An incredible $43,690 donation to Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 doubles as the most expensive nerd joke I've seen on the internet
News 0xAAAA.
'I think geniuses come up with terrible ideas, too': Former senior artist at Bethesda likens Todd Howard's struggles with complete creative control to George Lucas
News "If you don't have somebody to help you filter through these things and give you an honest assessment, it actually does hurt you."
'He was trying his best'—Palworld had a lone server guy trying to keep the game afloat during its 2 million player launch
News "We definitely panicked more than we should have."
D&D's revised Monster Manual is aiming to provide oodles of plot hooks along with its stat blocks, and I'm already quietly stealing some for my own encounters
News Monstrous machinations.
Marvel Rivals starts 2025 by clobberin' the most played charts, hitting over 640,000 players on Steam alone
News That's around 35% more players than Helldivers 2 had in its heyday.
Around 66 accounts in Path of Exile 2 were compromised, due to a one-two punch of an old unused Steam account and a backend bug
News "66 notes were deleted, so that would imply that 66 accounts were compromised."
Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a closed network test, and I'm totally not fuming because PC players aren't invited to the party, or anything
News Here's where I'd be trying Nightreign on my console… if I had one!
Dragonflight got WoW back on its feet, now we get to see if Blizzard can make the Worldsoul Saga run
REPAIR COSTS We're deep underground, but things are looking up.
Final Fantasy 14 communities panic as it turns out change to blacklisting, meant to help reduce stalking, also lets players use mods to track their alts
News While anxiety is targeted at one mod, the information it scrapes isn't hard to find.
Harrowing report alleges years of horrific abuse at Brandoville Studios, an Indonesian support studio that worked on Assassin's Creed Shadows and The Last of Us Remake
News Former employees share a shocking history of abuse, crunch, and financial control.
18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.
D&D's revised Monster Manual is tackling one of the game's biggest hangups—and adding a new menu of BBEGs: 'We wanted the Tarrasque to have some fighting buddies'
News They did the monster re-hash.
Final Fantasy 14 data sleuth gathers more info on the game's script, finds Alphinaud is the king of yappers—though Wuk Lamat's in the top 3 after just 1 expansion
News Urianger's most-used word is also "tis", which feels right.
League of Legends' new season trailer is basically an epilogue to Arcane with 6 new Fortiche champion redesigns in it—so if it's not a preview of the upcoming Noxus show, I'll eat my hat
News Just boys being boys, wrestling in the tundra.
Citizen Sleeper 2 will likely be the last in the series, though its creator plans to come full-circle with a TTRPG
News See You, Space Sleeper.
'New year, new low, Microsoft'—even the search engines are firing shots on social media now, as Google employees take aim at Bing over 'long history of tricks'
News Next we're going to see a passive-aggressive post-it note slapped on Safari's fridge.
'Game has become mahjong': WoW Classic player installs over 3,600 addons in a bout of eldritch madness, somehow only needs to remove 20 to get it to 'work'
News I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has told me I may now drink.
Now D&D's 2024 rules revamp is almost finished, I've been visited by the ghosts of TTRPG past, present, and future to help me predict the next 5-10 years
PORTENT DICE A decade to come.
Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'
News "Look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe—you stop taking risks and people just tune it out."
AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an 'All Romances' run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever made
News A smashing start to the new year.
Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either
News "What it can't do is tell me a really compelling story … it gets extremely confused."
Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says the game's past balance woes were due to weapons being 'seen as game objects' and that 'balance doesn't matter'
News Que sera, sera, whatever guns are, will be.
G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase
News Eerily monologues. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.
