Latest articles by Harvey Randall
D&D's new Monster Manual is gorgeous and filled with welcome variety—but even with a full system revamp, WoTC's still leaving too much important work to its DMs
HERE AGAIN Not quite the best(iary), not quite the worst.
When asked if they still want to make an MMO, Riot's co-founder replies: 'Oh yeah,' but don't get too excited, the ETA is 'before we go to Mars'
News "It's probably the project I personally spend the most time on as well."
Avowed's in-dialogue glossary isn't that new, really—it's just somehow not industry-standard yet, though it could solve the 'amnesiac/prisoner RPG protagonist' problem forever
WORD UP If someone says "wow, you must've hit your head hard" one more time, I'm gonna lose it.
Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems'
News "Just because you are big enough to build something doesn’t mean people will use it."
Streamer achieves git gud godhood by beating all mainline Souls games at level 1, back to back, without getting hit—then explodes into tears of relief
News "I wanna just get naked and run around the city right now."
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players are seized by the spirit of generosity, band together to buy strangers in need over $1,500 in copies
News Pay it forward.
Japanese patent attorney, burdened with a party pooper's knowledge, says Nintendo having 22 out of 23 Palworld-targeting claims 'rejected' in the US is business as usual
News Most patent claims are as broad as possible, and filed down in an iterative process.
WoW next big patch, Undermine(d), gets a release date, starting the countdown clock until my gaming time is entirely consumed with doing donuts in my new ride
News Gas, gas, gas.
5 characters I'm pretty sure will never make it into Marvel Rivals, ever
BOTTOM BARREL Only one of these characters is going to blow up in popularity, and not in a good way.
Viewers watch in horror, unable to help, as blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner almost gets a world record that wouldn't have counted: 'I would've cried'
News The 'he can't hear us, he's got airpods in' of speedrunning.
Former WoW designer tips hat to Marvel Rival's shifting meta as an antidote to MMOs with stale class design 'you have to change the meta continually'
News MMO-BA.
Final Fantasy 14 is, you guessed it, still making bank for Square Enix as Dawntrail rakes in the big bucks, though it might not be all sunshine and tacos
News Let's see how it all shakes out.
Sweet liberty, the Illuminate are moving an entire wormhole across Helldivers 2's galaxy map to slam dunk it into Super Earth like a basketball
News Welcome to the Space Dive. Here's your chance, do your dance, at the Space Dive.
Hi-Rez will only be giving 'minor updates' to Smite and Paladins now it's laying off around 70 employees, but don't worry, Smite 2 is the 'primary focus of the newly streamlined operations'
News "Active development of Paladins is being halted. No more major updates are expected".
WoW has raised over $2 million for charity CureDuchenne by selling a cute little fox, after being inspired by The Remarkable Life of Ibelin documentary
News "The World of Warcraft community has shown that gaming can be a powerful force for good."
'On a pirate ship, they'd toss the captain overboard': Larian head of publishing tears into EA after BioWare layoffs waste 'institutional knowledge'
News A profit drop doesn't have to mean a closed shop.
Arrowhead CEO says Games Workshop 'would love' a 40K Helldivers 2 crossover, 'but time and resources are finite and we've got our hands busy'
News For the Emperor of Democracy! Oh, and mankind, too.
Alas, it's been estimated that WoW's $90 FOMO dinosaur mount probably made Blizzard around $15-17 million, and at this point I think we all deserve to be here
News Open the door, cash on the floor, everybody bought the dinosaur.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review: Overambitious, earnest, and beautiful
CYBER-WARTS AND ALL Reckoning with flaws in the machine.
52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: 'He is Don Mario, he's my dad'
News Let's-a-go!
Arrowhead CEO reassures Helldivers 2 players in the wake of Johan Pilestedt's sabbatical that if they can keep the game 'going for 10 years, we will'
News "We'll support it to hell and back."
Monster Hunter Wilds director is proud of his horrible, oily giant octopus son that belches flame and writhes in the muck, says it's a technical challenge he's 'finally getting to attempt'
News "There are countless proposals that I've had rejected due to technical reasons."
Baldur's Gate 3's accidental PS5 release of Patch 8 has the theorycrafters in a flurry—though I'm just glad D&D's blade cantrips are officially here
News Hi, I'm theorycrafters.
