Author: Harvey Randall

Alan Wake 2’s captured the imagination of the gaming public for a lot of reasons—it’s downright gorgeous, but it also has Remedy’s penchant for blending genres, deftly mixing comedy and horror. This habit hits a high-point with Herald of Darkness, an in-game track so popular it was performed live at The Game Awards this year.…

The Day Before is 2023’s fastest-moving disaster—starting off as a top-wishlisted game on Steam after an alluring trailer, it only took four days after its (eventual) launch before the thing was taken down. Following that, the Discord server, YouTube, and even CEO’s social media channels disappeared or were scrubbed. The developer’s response? “Shit happens.” (Image…

I’m just now getting to know Minthara in Baldur’s Gate 3—both on my evil necromancer playthrough and my Honour Mode run, where I intend to pick her up from Moonrise Towers after risking my neck to knock her out. Still, I’ve cast off the shackles of spoilers after completing my first playthrough—gleefully getting my mitts…

Overwatch 2 has had some trouble in the past year-and-a-bit since its release—between promised PvE content being absent, an outright admission that the game has been in decline, and a ‘colourful’ reception on Steam, the game’s freemium model has been a point of contention—especially for players who bought Overwatch 1 fully-priced. A recent controversy has…

Sony has applied to patent systems that automatically fiddle with “parameters that change the difficulty of the game” based on your performance, a patent on the World Intellectual Property Organization’s website reveals. (Actually, the patent reads “difficultly” at the time of writing, so Sony may in fact be referring to the implementation of dynamic cults.…

Blizzard have released a sneak peek at some of the Hero Talents from World of Warcraft’s upcoming expansion: The War Within. Hero Talents are meant to be evergreen dashes of spice to the game’s existing talent system—ones which mainly add “class utility [and] defensive bonuses.” The devs maintain that the differences in these trees is…

JoCat, creator of the ‘A Crap Guide to X’ series for both D&D and Final Fantasy 14, has announced that he’ll be taking an ‘indefinite break’ in the wake of harassment, as announced on his Twitter yesterday. In a further thread, JoCat lays out a timeline following the wake of his I Like Girls video—a…

Armored Core 6 just joined this year’s surprising avalanche of quality-of-life updates and out-of-the-blue patches: like Baldur’s Gate 3 adding a whole new epilogue and difficulty mode, or Cyberpunk 2077 finally making good on its promises of a working public transport system.  This one in particular will have FromSoftware’s PvP community in a buzz, though:…

AI has some concerning implications for our tech-driven future—but, like a lot of concerning new advances in technology, it’s also being used for memes. Like Plankton from Spongebob sing Maneskin’s Beggin’ with shocking conviction. Few internet personalities have become as aware of this trend as Jschlatt. He’s an influencer, gaming YouTuber, and streamer who has…

I wish I could share my fellow PC Gamer writer Joshua Wolens’ optimism—in a piece he wrote earlier this week, Josh laid out a very clear example of how pushback from the people who actually create stuff can build safeguards around AI, using the recent Hollywood writer’s strike as an example. I think he’s right,…