Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a closed network test, and I'm totally not fuming because PC players aren't invited to the party, or anything
News Here's where I'd be trying Nightreign on my console… if I had one!
Dragonflight got WoW back on its feet, now we get to see if Blizzard can make the Worldsoul Saga run
REPAIR COSTS We're deep underground, but things are looking up.
Final Fantasy 14 communities panic as it turns out change to blacklisting, meant to help reduce stalking, also lets players use mods to track their alts
News While anxiety is targeted at one mod, the information it scrapes isn't hard to find.
Harrowing report alleges years of horrific abuse at Brandoville Studios, an Indonesian support studio that worked on Assassin's Creed Shadows and The Last of Us Remake
News Former employees share a shocking history of abuse, crunch, and financial control.
18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.
D&D's revised Monster Manual is tackling one of the game's biggest hangups—and adding a new menu of BBEGs: 'We wanted the Tarrasque to have some fighting buddies'
News They did the monster re-hash.
Final Fantasy 14 data sleuth gathers more info on the game's script, finds Alphinaud is the king of yappers—though Wuk Lamat's in the top 3 after just 1 expansion
News Urianger's most-used word is also "tis", which feels right.
League of Legends' new season trailer is basically an epilogue to Arcane with 6 new Fortiche champion redesigns in it—so if it's not a preview of the upcoming Noxus show, I'll eat my hat
News Just boys being boys, wrestling in the tundra.
Citizen Sleeper 2 will likely be the last in the series, though its creator plans to come full-circle with a TTRPG
News See You, Space Sleeper.
'New year, new low, Microsoft'—even the search engines are firing shots on social media now, as Google employees take aim at Bing over 'long history of tricks'
News Next we're going to see a passive-aggressive post-it note slapped on Safari's fridge.
'Game has become mahjong': WoW Classic player installs over 3,600 addons in a bout of eldritch madness, somehow only needs to remove 20 to get it to 'work'
News I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has told me I may now drink.
Now D&D's 2024 rules revamp is almost finished, I've been visited by the ghosts of TTRPG past, present, and future to help me predict the next 5-10 years
PORTENT DICE A decade to come.
Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'
News "Look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe—you stop taking risks and people just tune it out."
AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an 'All Romances' run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever made
News A smashing start to the new year.
Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either
News "What it can't do is tell me a really compelling story … it gets extremely confused."
Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says the game's past balance woes were due to weapons being 'seen as game objects' and that 'balance doesn't matter'
News Que sera, sera, whatever guns are, will be.
G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase
News Eerily monologues. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.
PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'
News A billion, million worlds.
Not only did FF14's controversial chatter Wuk Lamat rank 1st for words spoken in Dawntrail, 'Wuk Lamat' was the most-used phrase by the characters in 2nd and 3rd place, too
News Whenever Wuk Lamat's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Wuk Lamat"?
2024 was still the year of Baldur's Gate 3: Why we're all still playing Larian's once-in-a-decade RPG 16 months later
REROLL Dice so nice you play it thrice.
