Latest articles by Harvey Randall
'It was eye-opening': How a WoW documentary inspired Muscular Dystrophy UK's Liam Quinn to raise money and build community in the haven of videogames
News Game On.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's first patch reveals the sword that was part of a 2 billion nuke build was doubling all damage by mistake
News Panda-Medalum.
Legions of Helldivers 2 players are currently banging their head against a password terminal, as Arrowhead plays coy with a new reveal
News "$SATCOM//>PLEASE?"
Lae'zel's voice actor was recording Baldur's Gate 3 lines a mere 2 days before giving birth: 'I'm gonna be here right up until the due date, just you watch'
News Downright Gith in determination.
Helldivers 2 is finally adding a sword, and while I'm not soiling my breeches over it as Arrowhead's CEO decreed, it does look very cool
News "I make one stupid pant sh*t joke and it all goes ballistic."
Peak Sekiro-like Nine Sols gets a 40% price cut ahead of its 1-year anniversary, and if you've ever liked parrying in a videogame, you need to play this thing
News One of my sleeper hits from last year is absurdly good for value right now.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs to issue its first nerf to an ability that does 2 billion damage: 'We gave it a big damage boost—and clearly overdid it'
News Stand down, Stendhal.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 players find a way to do 2,177,438,000 damage, which is enough to kill the hardest endgame superboss over 45.8 times
News Simon says? No, Simon dies.
On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down
News "People expect games that are ever more ambitious and therefore expensive to develop to cost the same."
The BioWare we loved is mostly gone, but '2017 is when EA finished digesting' it, says Dragon Age studio veteran
News "EA buys studios, and then consumes them, and they start to lose their culture."
GTA 6's preposterously gorgeous second trailer has me thinking 'no-one does it like Rockstar' isn't just a compliment, but an omen
MIND MELTING A leviathan 1.5 decades in the making.
Deadlock goes full second breakfast by having another, secret playtest tucked inside the first one—with all-new heroes and a redesign of everyone's favourite gargoyle gal
News Yes, we've had first leaked playtest. But what about second leaked playtest?
Analyst claims Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is selling twice as fast as any other recent JRPG has on Steam—and it's got me wondering what the secret sauce is
News Looks like PC gamers love Clair Obscur (hi, I'm PC gamers).
'I'd say chances are good': While the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team is still figuring out where to go next, DLC is likely
News Sandfall's not out of paint just yet.
There's another Pathfinder 2e bundle on Humble with nearly $700 of books for $57, including an adventure that'll let you go full Mortal Kombat with your friends
News Test your might.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's publisher says Oblivion Remastered 'didn't seem to harm us at all', in fact, it may have helped: 'Everybody was thinking and talking about the genre'
News Sometimes you get lucky, and players are just happy to have two cakes.
Silksong got a release date for an Australian museum exhibit before anything else, and I wish I was kidding
News But hey, there's a new sprite sheet, at least.
Foundry VTT creator does what Hasbro won't with D&D, trashes the idea of AI in tabletop roleplaying game industry as a 'betrayal'
News "A betrayal of the creative people who made the TTRPG industry what it is."
WoW's idea to clamp down on combat add-ons is misguided, especially since it could keep improving its base experience without, uh, doing that
ADD-ONS, GOING, GONE Blizzard is playing with forces I'm not sure it fully comprehends.
PC gaming can't stop getting Ws, as Microsoft shares it's being weighed down by console and hardware revenue woes
News We're having a sensible chuckle from our (ivory) gaming towers.
A murder-mystery horse MMO baffled me so much that I spoke to gaming's resident horse expert—turns out they've been holding out for their Stardew Valley moment for years, and I'm on their side
NEIGH BOTHER "The genre didn't grow up with us," says consultant and prolific horse game appreciator Alice Ruppert.
Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like
News She's taking it better than I would, that's for sure.
Donkey Kong 64 composer shares why Nintendo didn't credit him in the Super Mario Bros. Movie for the DK rap—it owns the song, and didn't want to
News "They're all the performers on the track. So they're all in the movie uncredited."
