Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Dice 'n' Goblins is a charming little dungeon-crawling RPG with some deceptively clever systems under the hood
News The 'g' in RPG stands for goblin.
Uh oh, Monster Hunter Wilds isn't messing around anymore—its new high-rank monsters hit hard and often, hopefully putting the difficulty discourse to bed
News Zoh No.
Capcom warned Monster Hunter Wilds players not to cheat on its ranked leaderboards, so of course people are immediately and flagrantly doing just that
News I don't know what I expected.
'WE WON!'—It was just 3 (technically 4) clips of Silksong news, but the community has fully lost it in joyous rapture
News SKONG.
It's actually happening, everybody stay calm: Silksong properly confirmed for a 2025 release date at the Nintendo Direct with a whole 3 seconds of footage
News Rattling the bars of my cage. Gnawing them, too.
It's clear Hasbro, the custodians of D&D, have no idea what to do with Baldur's Gate 3's success—but that's nothing new, it's spent the past 10 years fumbling the bag
FUMBLES & DRAGONS The instant collapse of Sigil is just the latest in a long line of missed opportunities and self-inflicted wounds.
Hollow Knight: Silksong returns as the #1 wishlisted game on Steam after Inzoi's release—but is it just keeping the seat warm after 6 years of slowly-gathered hype?
News Top bug.
Oh, you tease—we don't know when exactly GTA 6 is coming out because Take-Two's CEO wants 'to maintain the anticipation'
News "The anticipation for that title might be the greatest anticipation I've ever seen for an entertainment property".
'We were at war with our customers': Unity's new CEO talks about arriving to the 'insane' post-runtime fee dumpster fire
News "I wanted to be sure they understood that we were going to do things differently."
Palworld decides it wasn't April fooling after all, is actually making a visual novel dating sim where you can, uh, 'dismember and eat' some of its cast
News Some take-backsies.
Jack Black, filled with premiere mania, says A Minecraft Movie is what the world needs right now: 'There’s so much violence and war and hatred'
News Uh, sure, buddy.
CEO of GTA 6 publisher Take-Two isn't worried about AI-generated slop games: 'It’s built on data that already exists, it’s backward-looking—big hits are forward-looking'
News Grand Theft AI-to.
Videogame collectibles don't have to suck, argues seasoned dev: 'I'm lookin' at you, Korok Seeds'
News Making Collectibles Count.
Yet another Nintendo Direct passes without Silksong news, and if you're wondering how people are taking it, you must be new here
News "Is this what you wanted?"
Venom's gonna throw it back in Marvel Rivals and there's nothing any of us can do to stop him
News We have to twerk, Eddie!
'I can't really say what they were thinking' says whistleblowing modder, as Final Fantasy 14's attempt to thwart stalkers falls terribly short of the mark
News NotNite, a coder with a history of taking malicious modders to task, has sounded the alarm.
'Diabolical': Genshin Impact's English cast gives new VO the cold shoulder after he frames replacing a striking actor as an 'opportunity to carry the flame'
News "This wasn't a passing of the torch."
World of Warcraft's started swiping good ideas from one of its most popular user-made UI addons, and it's honestly about time
News WeakAuras has some strong ideas.
By the time Bethesda was on Starfield, you'd 'basically get in trouble' for breaking schedule, says former dev: 'A lot of the great stuff within Skyrim came from having the freedom to do what you want'
News Fus by numbers.
As layoffs and studio closures continue to deathroll the western AAA industry, analyst points out 5 of 8 major Japanese companies hit all-time share prices this year
News Grim in the West, great in the East.
I'm not yelling 'we're so back!' yet, but Final Fantasy 14's patch 7.2 story could be the first sign the MMO is returning to what made it so critically-acclaimed
SPHENE 2.0 Dare I hope?
Ubisoft scores a legendary ratio against Elon Musk on his own platform—which hopefully marks a final end to all the Assassin's Creed Shadows' culture war nonsense
News "Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?"
Dwarf Fortress' creator is so tired of hearing about AI: 'Press a button and it writes a really sh*tty, wrong essay about something—and they still take your job'
News Sighing at the slop.
