Harvey Randall

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WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: 'We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field'

2 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall

Blizzard is planning on shaking things up—alright, 'shaking things up' might be an understatement. For twenty-odd years now, World of Warcraft has existed with an ecosystem of UI addons that facilitate a bunch of stuff: Profiles for roleplayers, accessibility features for disabled gamers and, obviously, combat addons.
WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: 'We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field' | Flipboard

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Harvey Randall

2 hours agoD&D fans who had their first look at the newly announced game Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked from Resolution Games may have experienced deja vu. The upcoming project, based on the Demeo Action Roleplaying System, looks and feels a lot like another product that was recently officially …
I wasn't expecting a FromSoftware game, of all things, to be so gut-bustingly funny-but just like Helldivers 2, Elden Ring Nightreign turns death into a punchline | PC Gamer

2 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall

It's down to the wire in Elden Ring Nightreign. After a carefully-paced, downright strategic brawl featuring myself, and two of PC Gamer's finest Nightfarers, we've got the Equilibrious Beast on the ropes. Two measly percent stand between us and victory. Our Duchess goes down. Me and my raider-in-arms exchange a look: It's all or nothing. Time slows to a crawl and crystalises, as adrenaline and cortisol scream through my system.
'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'

2 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall |Joshua Wolens

One of the more surface-level discourses in videogames in recent memory has been the hullabaloo over yellow paint—gamers the world over decrying games with obvious sunshine climbables as being patronising slop for little babies (I'm exaggerating, a little). But Miles Tost, the level design lead for The Witcher 4, tells PCG's Joshua Wolens that it's a little more complicated than yellow paint good or yellow paint bad.
'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Harvey Randall

An Underrated Crime Thriller Series Is Finally Finding An Audience On NetflixHow many times have you walked out of a movie and exclaimed, "That was great, but what it really needs is to be a television show!" Your answer, …
'I want you to have the confidence to give it a try': Elden Ring Nightreign's combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he's beat all the game's bosses, solo, without relics

2 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall

Elden Ring Nightreign is a hard game—no, not just hard, sometimes downright unfair. It's in a way that's incredibly charming, mind, but as our own Ted Litchfield wrote last week, it's "player hostile" or, in other words, occasionally "such bullshit". I had my own taste of this recently as, while playing with a couple of other PCG folks, we got a boss down to around 2% HP, decided to try and finish it off, and got insta-gibbed by a muddily-telegraphed AoE. Nightreign'd.
The Elder Scrolls Online's subclassing feature shakes up the meta in its newest update, Seasons of the Worm Cult, as the devs set their sights on harder difficulties: 'It's in the works'

3 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall

The Elder Scrolls Online - Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 Launch Trailer - YouTubeWatch On The Elder Scrolls Online just had a huge patch drop yesterday—titled Seasons of the Worm Cult, this new update marks the start of a few key changes to the MMO, alongside a nice helping of content for current or returning players to sink their newly subclassed mitts into.
SteamDB changes might finally herald the end of a long wait for Silksong (again), though with SGF on the horizon, I think Team Cherry has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time

3 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall

Every time I write about Silksong, I feel as though I'm inching closer to an abyss of madness from which there is no return. Each article starts the same—a rite for the uninitiated, an explanation that yes, this game really was announced in 2019, and yes, it really was stated to be coming out "in the next 12 months" in 2022, and yes, fan hopefuls really did wait three more years for a hilariously short clip in a 2025 Nintendo direct promising a release date this year with zero other specifics.
FF14 unofficial census finds what we were all pretty much feeling-before patch 7.25, Dawntrail's playerbase has likely been on the decline

3 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall

I concur with PC Gamer's Mollie Taylor, my fellow Final Fantasy 14 enjoyer on our illustrious staff, that FF14's Occult Crescent patch has made the game feel like an MMO again. I actually got downright emotional, hopping into my first critical encounter and seeing swarms of strangers crowding around a chance to give a boss a beatdown: 'Oh,' I thought, 'I'm playing an MMO again'.
I tried the 'oops, all status effects' Executor loadout in Elden Ring Nightreign that turns his starting katana into a god-killing uber-sword-shockingly, it's pretty good | PC Gamer

3 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall

Most of my time playing Elden Ring Nightreign has involved scrambling to piece together a good build out of the garbage the game gives me—I don't have good luck in roguelikes, you see. If I need a four in Balatro, I won't get one. But last night, cackling with glee as my starting sword gave my foes nearly every possible disease, I had finally beaten the game of fate: The only winning move, it turns out, was not to play.

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