Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Blizzard is finally coming after chronic Mythic+ ditchers in WoW, suspending players 'who repeatedly and recklessly disrupted' groups for funsies
News A slap on the wrist.
Dragon Age: Origins lead writer says Shale was saved partly by his real-life burning hatred for pigeon poop: 'I wrote like the angry, angry wind'
News "I hated those pigeons SO SO MUCH".
Former Atlus artist raises a glass to Metaphor: ReFantazio character designer and their mastery of 'sex appeal' that transcends stereotypes
News "When I saw Soejima’s character designs, it was the first time I found male characters sexy."
'I can show this film to my parents, and they will understand better': Director of touching WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin reflects on the importance of online communities as sanctuaries
News "I've read messages from men that say ‘I haven't cried since '99, and this is the first time I cried since then.'"
Season 2's ending was peak Arcane—a dense and explosive finale that'll take a while to properly pick out of your teeth
VI-RY DENSE If you weren't signed up for this, what were you signed up for?
Baldur's Gate 3 console players are now limited to 100 mods per save—and probably won't have unfettered access to big naturals Withers like we do on PC
News "We're actually hitting the limits of how many mods can be active while still keeping Baldur's Gate 3 stable."
How to use the Mirror of Loss in Baldur's Gate 3
At a loss Sell some memories for an ability score bonus.
Man wed to digital icon Hatsune Miku in real life causes uproar when he admits he mostly married her just because he could
News "I try to do things within the bounds of what’s not illegal."
Akon's 'Smack That' and Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins have a shared history, according to her writer, who cast her off a 'beat poet rendition' of the song
News Get on the floor. Gimmie some more.
Huh, Final Fantasy 14 is getting a mobile remake made by another studio, with redesigned jobs and battles made for your clumsy thumbs
News Eorzea in the palm of your hand.
Baldur's Gate 3 defies the laws of physics by being a singleplayer RPG with more daily users in 2024 than its release year
News Staying power.
Helldivers 2 players endure sarcastic propaganda that commends their 'undeniable tactical brilliance' after the 'blob' abandons a nearly-won objective for basically no reason
News Democracy in action.
Pathfinder 2e celebrates the 1st anniversary of its remaster by smashing D&D for value, offers $888 worth of new books for $45 with latest Humble Bundle
News That's a lotta PDFs.
Arcane's showrunners would like to shake things up after 9 years, which is part of why it's ending with Season 2
News Riot's co-founder also says "there are lots of other stories to tell".
After having to buff event rewards 4 times in a year, WoW director Ion Hazzikostas admits there's 'a pattern' and that 'we may tend to err on the conservative side'
News You can always buff later.
From extensive lore-friendly research to diabolical wordplay: All the different ways we name our beloved videogame characters
Aliases Making a name for ourselves.
D&D's 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide has finally had it, passive-aggressively denounces peasant railguns, capitalist artificers, and weaponised bags of rats
News I didn't know rulebooks could get sassy, but here we are.
Uh oh—Helldivers 2's state-owned missile platform players voted into existence is blowing them up, with Arrowhead giving players free shield generators while it figures out what happened
News Voting for the "leopards blew up my face" party.
World of Warcraft might not have invented the wheel, but it certainly made it popular—and 20 years on, the MMO titan has fundamentally changed gaming's DNA
LIVING SERVICE Love it or hate it, it's probably what we deserve.
If you were too relaxed playing Webfishing, you might like this fishing roguelike shooter where your catches can mercilessly gun you down
News Lake of Creatures is out today.
At last, democracy has come to Helldivers 2: A new Democracy Space Station lets players vote on which planet gets bombarded for truth and justice every 24 hours
News Your vote matters! For 24 hours.
Gosh, I think D&D's finally done it—the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide actually does a decent job of teaching you how to run a game
INTO DMS Some bad habits aside, it's a huge improvement.
Player housing is coming to World of Warcraft after 20 years, though you'll have to wait until the next expansion: 'It's a tremendously large undertaking'
News Our house, in the middle of Warcraft.
