Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Helldivers 2 CCO Johan Pilestedt says the industry's got it backwards by putting features over fundamentals: 'We talk way too little about the core philosophy'
News Visualise, then execute.
Balatro's first demo could be edited with Notepad to unlock the whole game—the solution? 'Bury it as soon as possible' with a 'newer, shinier version'
News "It was very important to do that quick."
'Hasbro pushed Sigil out of the nest': D&D's latest layoffs happened because the 'distinct monetization path' for its virtual tabletop Sigil never materialized
News "Hasbro treated Sigil like a video game instead of a VTT and at no point cared to understand the difference."
Silksong's weary hollows tossed another scrap of hope from Xbox on high, as a blog post namedrops it next to other 'upcoming games'
News "We know how many times Xbox's talked about a potential release timeframe."
It's not looking good for D&D's virtual tabletop Sigil, as Hasbro follows a quiet release by reportedly laying off 90% of the people working on it
News Not a great sign.
Assassin's Creed Shadows unlock times for each region
Launch times Here's when Ubisoft's next big game steps out of the shadows.
Monster Hunter Wilds' next set of event quests let you snag a snazzy earring, plus armor and weapon decorations
News Getting an earful (of metal).
'I'm not a gamer,' says God of War Amazon series' new showrunner, unwittingly kicking a hornet's nest despite years of acclaimed writing experience
News Moore or less.
Helldivers 2's next warbond'll let you be a real space cowboy, and draw on those Automaton scum with a lever-action rifle
News Yeehaw.
Zenless Zone Zero developer finally embraces its divine domain as the god of jiggle physics, goes mad, adds them to cat balls
News Cat got your tongue?
Avowed's new patch just gave you 6 more talent points to muck around with, along with a heap of fixes and improvements
News Hybrids, rejoice.
Monster Hunter Wilds players wonder if frenzied monsters are a little undercooked, as one slaps a sickly bird into a fine paste in just 25 seconds
News Hunter, the guild authorises you to obliterate that angry bird.
You can grab Undertale for less than $1, as the genre-defining indie RPG beats its all-time player peak for the first time in 10 years
News Undersale.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure reportedly a 'large loss' for Square Enix, says analyst, who adds: 'The company's IP fundamentally varies too much between good and bad'
News Double-dipping.
Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.2's trailer has me finally hyped to get stuck back in—and to go to the moon and pilot some mechs, because why not
News Fly me to the moon.
The hooligan hacker guild that tore up WoW's newest raid (twice) just posted video evidence of the whole thing, and it's got me feeling weirdly nostalgic
News A simpler time. Maybe not better, but simpler.
Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale, who played femshep, 'saw no line' before she recorded them for Bioware's flagship trilogy: 'It was all cold reading on the spot'
News "It's extraordinarily demanding."
4 short months after saying 'We'll have to adapt and change', Netflix's AI games VP adapts and changes into a person who isn't working there anymore
News No. Stop. Don't, come back.
'What do you mean real actors?': Astarion's VO, who shared an awards category with Idris Elba after Baldur's Gate 3, remembers the dark ages of mocap
News "I had agents turn down three-week mocap gigs that I didn't even know about."
WoW flexes its MMO player housing system in a new blog post, and it really might just beat FF14's dated furniture placement into the dirt
News Blizzard's doing it right.
This impractical method of getting a 1-second capture time in Monster Hunter Wilds can make you the fastest hunter alive—on paper
News Just don't tell the Guild Knights I'm bullying frogs for bragging rights.
GTA 5 publisher takes legal aim at account-selling site for allegedly raking in 'millions in revenue', while recruiting hackers to keep its cogs turning
News "PlayerAuctions refuses to stop."
Gemma's English VA is right with us on Monster Hunter Wild's confusing menus, which makes me feel a little better for having to Google symbols all the time
News "The menu is like looking at something written in a foreign language."
