Author: Harvey Randall

Trainwrecks aren’t exactly rare in the gaming industry, but it’s rare that they’re this spectacular. After a suspiciously-polished trailer, The Day Before quickly became one of Steam’s most wishlisted games.  Then delays, more delays, major red flags featuring “volunteer” workers, a much shoddier 10-minute gameplay video (which you can’t watch anymore) and finally a debut…

One of the more interesting things about WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery (SoD) is how it’s recaptured that vanilla feeling of going on little adventures. This is done mainly through its runes system.  In case you’re unfamiliar, every class in SoD has access to runes that give them important, build-defining abilities. For example, to get…

If I had a 2023 bingo card, I can guarantee that ‘the voice actor for Arthur Morgan got in a TikTok feud with the Florida Joker’ would not be on it. It feels like a sentence written by putting a bunch of names on a corkboard and throwing darts at it. For context: last week…

At The Game Awards, a trailer for Atlus’ upcoming RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio made its second debut (third, if you count its former moniker Project ReFantasy—though the art style has changed a whole lot). I’d love to talk about how excited I am for it, but first I need to get a confession out of the…

Earlier this week, Blizzard released the equivalent of a torture rack for Diablo 4’s most masochistic players—The Abattoir of Zir (try saying that ten times really fast). It’s meant to be an endgame activity designed for the hardest of the hardcore, a task you’re “not really supposed to finish.” Unfortunately, it hit a couple of…

For a lot of people, including myself, Kevin Conroy was the Batman. A lot of you might’ve known him from the Arkham Trilogy—I myself was first introduced to him via Justice League: Unlimited. He was the voice of Batman for over three decades before he died after a short battle with cancer in November last…

I’m typically sceptical of trailer scrubbers—and there are a hell of a lot of them with Grand Theft Auto 6. Can’t blame them, obviously, it’s been 10 whole years since we last got a GTA game.  But they’ve really been ravenous this time—drawing circles around moles, driving up Spotify numbers, and having some would-be players…

Baldur’s Gate 3 is an absurd game—and I mean that as a compliment. There’s been plenty of story wonkiness in need of hotfixes and adjustment (like a very horny Gale) the fact this thing shipped with a mostly-functional beginning, middle, and end is a miracle. There’s so much dang choice. You can be a massive…

Larian Studios collects a lot of data—as plenty of studios do—about their player’s habits in-game, and Baldur’s Gate 3 is no exception. For example, it shared the game’s most-played multiclasses back in September, leading to some interesting insights about how a strong character theme wins out over min-maxing power. Well, it’s time to look at…

Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition came with its own starter set way back in 2014. In it, players could go through the start of the Lost Mines of Phandelver adventure—which began with a harsh goblin ambush that could cause character deaths, and even wipe out the party. Phandelver was free for a while, making it…