Latest articles by Harvey Randall
'The end is in sight'—Fallout: London, a DLC-sized mod plagued by delays, will arrive soon with its own installer to help slim the chances of Bethesda breaking it a 2nd time
News "We should be good to go."
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty couldn't have been as good 'if the initial reception of the game wasn’t as negative', says lead quest designer
News As one Idris Elba might say, the game is fixed.
Say what you like about Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's story, but these bosses and dungeons are some of the dev's best work so far
BOSS GUSH Dungeons, not drag-ons.
'Very few' people would play a Morrowind-style RPG with 'no compass, no map' and a reliance on quest text, says ESO director, 'which is kind of sad'
News (M)oral compass.
'It was so much of a cash cow': Former GTA 5 dev implies ill-fated Agent Trevor DLC was sacrificed at the altar of GTA Online
News "It was hard to make an argument that a standalone DLC would outcompete that."
Dataminer unearths 'cut' voicelines from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's stoic final boss
News Promises unspoken.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players are baffled by proposed changes to Viper, a job that's existed for less than week, and honestly so am I
News "Y'all can't just press True North?"
Final Fantasy 14's director confirms that no, Pictomancers weren't meant to manually remove their own buffs for a 1% DPS increase—outlines other job changes for patch 7.01 of Dawntrail
News "My apologies for any confusion this may have caused."
After playing last year's soulslikes, Shadow of the Erdtree reminded me that no one knows how to use ambushes like FromSoftware
OUTTA NOWHERE Difficulty's got nothing to do with it.
The father of Final Fantasy loves FF14 so much, fellow devs at his studio have had to log on sometimes to say 'hey, the meeting's started'
News "On a rare occasion—I want to stress 'rare occasion'."
Go farruk yourself: Creator of the D&D setting used for Baldur's Gate 3 teaches us how to cuss
News Ua tah phind thlah ea Lolth!
D&D's lead rules designer admits he changed some spells because of how 'painful' and 'excruciating to cast' they were in Baldur's Gate 3
News "I thought: 'we are going to redesign Produce Flame.'"
Helldivers 2's latest major order has everyone so curious about a mysterious interplanetary battle station, 4/5ths of all online players are handling it as I write this headline
News X-45 gonna give battle stations to ya.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players warn side-questers: don't solve these riddles for an NPC that blabs a big spoiler right before it happens
News Riddle me this: What's green, blue, and spoils you?
Oh for goodness' sake—D&D has early access periods and pre-order bonuses now, like a 3D model of a dragon for a virtual tabletop that doesn't exist yet
News The worst habits of videogame storefronts are making their way to pen and paper.
I pitied Shadow of the Erdtree's future 'Let Me Solo Her' champion, but seeing how the Elden Ring community's handled business, I'm not so worried anymore
FRET NOT The kids are alright.
This WoW player who clicks their skills is probably better than you—hunter Durendil solos yet another raid boss armed with a spreadsheet and raw grit
News Clicking into place.
Elden Ring maestro plays a saxophone to style on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, wins battle of the bands in 'a dozen attempts'
News Let me (jazz) solo her.
'Is this supposed to be rigged?' Helldivers 2 players fatigued as bugs leapfrog across supply lines like a bunch of dirty cheaters
News Bugging them something fierce.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail rises to a mixed reception in its opening weekend, though I don't think the sky's falling just yet
BACK TO BASICS Slow and steady.
Dawntrail's opening hour made my heart so full, which is almost enough to distract me from these mysterious gimp suits
News Hey, uh, Square? How are these story-relevant? Square?
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player does an 'all-hit' run of the DLC's final boss, refusing to dodge, block, parry, or even heal until the job is done
News "Boss mechanics? I think you mean 'boss suggestions'."
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Steam numbers have dwindled into the low hundreds, placing it side-by-side with Gotham Knights
News No more anti-heroes.
