Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Galaxy-brained NPCs thinking too much were the source of Dragon Dogma 2's performance woes in towns, say devs
News Big brain.
After DMing a bunch of D&D 5e, swapping over to Pathfinder 2e has felt like hanging out with a cool TTRPG uncle that lets you smoke weed
PATH FINDING You wanna have laser eyes at level one? Sure, buddy.
Fair play, Exodus—having ex-Bioware devs and Matthew McConaughey on board is neat, but your freaky flesh spaceships have my attention
News It's giving All Tomorrows.
Phantom Blade Zero devs say they don't want to water down the game for foreigners—in fact, quite the opposite
News "Players will perceive unfamiliar themes as something fresh."
You can try a taster of the Dead Cells dev's next roguelike Windblown ahead of its early access debut later this month, courtesy of Steam Next Fest
News It's pretty dang tasty already.
200 Bandai Namco employees reportedly moved into 'expulsion rooms' designed to bore them into quitting, though the company maintains its innocence
News Japan's strict laws surrounding dismissal make "layoffs" look a little different.
Microsoft has finally managed to settle against 10 gamers in court
News It's over, and I'm not exactly confident the gamers won.
Flashy MOBA battle royale Supervive is opening its doors during Steam Next Fest—and it's already got that Blizzard/Riot polish from its expat devs in spades
News Complex, frenetic MOBA brawling for the MLG hounds.
The culmination of Helldivers 2's 60-day patch plan canonises John Helldiver—less importantly, there's been major buffs to grenades, sentries, and the long-avoided anti tank mines
News In John we trust.
The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100
Top 100 We only have 100 spots to list. Not every game is going to make it.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
We have Final Fantasy 11 to thank for everything being on Discord, now—the app's co-creator made its prototype to talk strategy with his MMO buds
News "I was obsessed with FF11, and I made something like a prototype of Discord as software that could be used while playing the game."
Games that 'look like they were designed by a bunch of people in a CEO boardroom' aren't exciting or interesting to Metaphor: ReFantazio's director
News Katsura Hashino wants a game "to give me a glimpse of the humanity behind it".
Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director heaves a big sigh as scalpers predictably ruin it for everyone: 'All you’re doing is making someone sad'
News Collector's conniption.
AI in games might've just proven itself useful for a change—Activision claims Call of Duty's seen a 43% drop in 'disruptive voice chat' since the start of the year thanks to its robo-snitch
News Ghost reporting in the machine.
Helldivers 2's 60-day patch, which was due this weekend, is now a 63-day patch because oops, turns out there's a Saturday in the way
News "We don't wanna break the game while you're playing the game."
Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs talk redesigning the game after BioWare bailed on the whole live service thing in 2021: 'I never personally saw it as a reboot'
News Hitting the reset button.
WoTC forced to take over popular Magic: The Gathering competitive format after community tantrum over card bans involves 'credible threats of physical assault'
News Plus "dissemination of personal information, wishes for death, and blatant toxicity."
Key Blizzard developers apparently tried for years to get a new Starcraft or Warcraft RTS off the ground, but execs had 'no appetite' for them
News "[Tim] Morten and his team tried for years to kick off a new RTS."
Nintendo is filing for the patents it's suing Palworld with in the US as well, though some (non-final) rejections could complicate matters
News One-two punch.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's first major patch comes mid-November: Alliance and 'Chaotic' raids, allied society quests, and a scant few details on the MSQ
News 24-player suffering.
Valve will see you in court! No, really, Steam's just updated its subscriber agreement so that 'all disputes and claims proceed in court'
News The move might have something to do with something called "arbitration overload".
The idea for a Pillars of Eternity: Tactics game has been floated at Obsidian, but it's still up in the air because 'the audience for them is not huge, typically, but very passionate'
News "It's a hard one to make a case for."
