Latest articles by Harvey Randall
D&D campaign-turned-animated series The Legend of Vox Machina uppercuts fans with some brutal departures from the source material, and I'm here for it
News I am the sicko shouting "yes!"
PlayStation loses fight in EU courts to stop sale of 'parasite' mods because, among other reasons, a book author can't stop 'the reader from skipping to the end'
News RAM's fair game.
Metaphor: ReFantazio's director does the smart thing, avoids reading comments as much as possible: 'Constantly looking at reactions isn’t good for your mental health'
News Everything in moderation.
Square Enix lawyers elbow in to shut down Yoko Taro fan archive, bafflingly, 6 months after he'd thanked its creators for all the love
News While Yoko Taro says 'thank you', Square Enix says 'any last words?'
Metaphor: ReFantazio lets you snag thousands in fantasy dosh pretty early on, all you have to do is smack some dogs and worms around with an abacus
Cash out Makin' that Merchant moolah.
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."
