Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Marvel Snap apologises for US TikTok outage by throwing a bunch of free stuff at its players
News Oh, snap.
Swamped with 1,500+ LinkedIn invitations in 24 hours, the manager at Palworld's new publishing arm 'underestimated how much interest there would be'
News "We give you money. You make game."
Coder creates an 'infinite maze' to snare AI bots in an act of 'sheer unadulterated rage at how things are going' on the content-scraped web
News "Suck down as much bullsh*t as they have diskspace for, and choke on it."
Former BioWare vet says the studio is focused on a single game 'for the first time maybe ever' with Mass Effect 5—and whether that's good or bad is anyone's guess
News A narrowing focus.
Dataminers turn up potential details on WoW's upcoming player housing feature—from the Cataclysm Classic PTR, of all places
News Home, sweet home.
Yoshi-P says FF14 team is 'discussing' options to fight mod that can be used for stalking, like 'legal action' and, uh, asking them to stop
News This doesn't quite inspire confidence.
Guilty Gear: Strive's anime gets a full trailer and a release window for April, and I'm just hyped to see my girl Elphelt having a good time
News Rub-a-dub.
Sony gets people scratching their heads after region-locking purchases of Horizon Forbidden West, 10 entire months after its initial release
News Despite the unpopularity of Sony's PSN moves, the region-locking proceeds apace.
It's still grim out there, even if you aren't AAA: Industry report claims that 1 in 10 respondents were laid off in 2024—with 'narrative' roles taking the biggest overall hit
News The unprecedented layoffs will continue until morale improves.
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.
