Latest articles by Harvey Randall
After being shut down by Blizzard, one of WoW's biggest private servers is saying screw it, we'll make our own MMO
News TurtleWoW's coming out of its shell.
A toast to the wild west weirdos of the MMO goldrush—from the game that unleashed pandora's lootbox, to a deeply strange mess based off a 1996 science fiction novel
ODD ONES Trendsetting freaks of 2005-2015, I salute thee.
One of the ideas pitched to save Destiny 2 was reportedly a 'Destiny Infinity' relaunch and a return to the annual expansion model
News Things could've been different—but enough to save it? Who knows.
Take-Two CEO says 'former Rockstar employees' have tried to match GTA's success and 'haven't been able to'—and while he doesn't name names, that's gotta sting for a certain someone
News MindsEye given the side-eye.
Resident Evil Requiem has a demo now, despite the fact it came out 3 months ago and sold over 7 million copies
News Giving a little Grace.
Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve's still experimenting
News Oops, all urns.
No, says Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, of course Red Dead Online isn't a missed opportunity, the game sold 85 million copies
News "Red Dead Online has been immensely successful and long lasting."
MMOs don't need 'to be 200 hours of unique content' at launch, says industry vet
News "There's probably a reason why EA never wanted to hire me."
'People want MMOs', says veteran designer Jack Emmert, it's the publishers chasing WoW-level scope that are the problem
News "You see games that are basically features without any soul."
PC Gamer's MMO readers are, according to you, fashion-forward healers who like your keybinds, and I couldn't be more proud
ROUND-UP MMO to the polls.
3 years on from laying off over 1,000 people, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are sending daily emails and physical letters encouraging the survivors to not unionise
News Hey, at least the Pinkertons aren't involved yet.
Dune: Awakening has decided it's 'not an MMO' anymore
News Just a very complicated survival game.
Mouseward is an adorably gloomy soulslike where you play an itty bitty undead mouse collecting stars, and it has a demo out now
News Grave tidings.
It's the year 2026, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will be streaming regularly on Twitch starting today
News Does this come under "just chatting?"
WoW: Midnight's hardcore raiders are on a gold treadmill, with a first-time clear of Mythic Midnight Falls costing around 87,750 gold in repairs alone
News And that's before consumables, which ramps that bill up to 340,692 if you're going full tryhard.
Critical Role finally releases a full-scale map of Campaign 4's main city, and I'm deeply jealous to not have their personal cartographer at my table
News The inevitable Aramán campaign setting is gonna slap.
Final Fantasy 11 expected a 'sharp player decline' once the hype from the FF14 crossover and welcome back campaigns ended, but that never came
News The 24-year-old MMO is trucking along just fine.
World's largest film archive has a collection of internet memes now, including a granny having a cathartic GTA rampage and Limmy's Purple Burglar Alarm
News A collection of delightful nonsense.
Final Fantasy creator Sakaguchi praises AI slop trailer for a FF6 remake, earns himself a light ribbing from battle designer on the first 2 games
News Fin-AI-l Fantasy.
MMOs are better if classes are imbalanced—you just need to do it on purpose
IMBA Perfectly balanced, as all things shouldn't be.
After close to 140 hours with it, I think Slay the Spire 2 feels more like a sequel than a DLC, even if Megacrit was forced to make it
REPLAY THE SPIRE Not just a shuffle of the deck.
Subnautica 2 has sold 2 million copies in 12 hours, with 9x the players as the first, and at this point I figure that Krafton CEO is already on his second bottle
News Let's sea how this all plays out.
Control was destined to become an RPG franchise all along, says creative director: 'That's how Control was born'
News News to me, but I suppose non-Euclidean geometric brutalist Rome wasn't built in a day.
