Latest articles by Harvey Randall
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.
PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'
News A billion, million worlds.
Not only did FF14's controversial chatter Wuk Lamat rank 1st for words spoken in Dawntrail, 'Wuk Lamat' was the most-used phrase by the characters in 2nd and 3rd place, too
News Whenever Wuk Lamat's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Wuk Lamat"?
2024 was still the year of Baldur's Gate 3: Why we're all still playing Larian's once-in-a-decade RPG 16 months later
REROLL Dice so nice you play it thrice.
Best RPG 2024: Metaphor: ReFantazio
🏆 Atlus graduates from high school and brings us its best JRPG yet.
Crashing servers, flame wars, and a 60-day path to redemption—the utterly chaotic first year of Helldivers 2 has been a democratic doozy
YEAR IN REVIEW BOMB The passion of liberty burns hot and cold.
I was skeptical of Supergiant making a sequel, but Hades 2 has more than earned its place in the roguelike pantheon, and it's not even finished yet
🏆 Death to Chronos.
The Illuminate in Helldivers 2 appear to be inching closer to the black hole we left at Meridia back in June, which is also looking a lot scarier, but I'm sure it's probably fine, stop worrying about it
News I'm sure it's meant to be doing that.
