Latest articles by Harvey Randall
The cake was a lie, but Silksong 'is real, progressing and will release' say devs, after flurry of conspiracy theories revealed to be a 'nothingburger'
News Napoleon was not, in fact, dynamite.
1,465 consecutive days of (mostly) no Silksong news: I spoke to the Sisyphean internet hero that's kept folks informed, every 24 hours, for 4 whole years
News "Every new year I thought: 'This is the year.' It wasn't."
'You can’t plan a success in this industry': Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says he would've 'tried to resist' the company's ill-fated march towards live service gambles
News "I'm sure they knew it's risky."
Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director departs BioWare after 18 years at EA after an offer to build a new RPG she 'couldn't turn down'
News Corinne Busche joined EA in 2006, moving to Bioware in 2019.
The Silksong hive is buzzing over a dev tweet that sees a chocolate cake, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Imagine Dragons all pointing with red string to the April Switch 2 Nintendo Direct
News Ahem. SKONG!
WoW's Plunderstorm mode is back, and it just lets you buy what you want with your in-game dubloons instead of having to grind
News Yahar, matey.
Obsidian vet Josh Sawyer says that while 'it's not that important' if players never finish an RPG—after all, who finishes Skyrim—'we can kind of chill out' on size
News It is, after all, how you use it.
Dragon Age voice actor arrested on multiple charges over allegations, including revenge porn and harassment
News Jonathan Rees (Greg Ellis), who seemingly burned bridges with Bioware back in 2020, is scheduled to appear in court at a later date.
'We are incredibly sorry': Path of Exile 2 devs apologise for data breach that saw 66 accounts snatched and personal info potentially stolen
News IP and shipping addresses, emails, and Steam IDs are among the details accessed.
Baldur's Gate 3 modder says the community's been making 'huge strides' towards custom campaigns: 'I think we'll see many of them refined, improved, and released this year'
News The gate: unlocked.
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.
