Latest articles by Iain Harris
2K removes its unpopular launcher from Steam and Epic, just months after freeing Civ 6 from its grasp
News You're now free to boot up XCOM 2, BioShock, and more with less faff
Avowed lead isn't worried about launching between Assassin's Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds because you're never "going to find a window where absolutely nothing is coming out"
News Obsidian is "very confident that Avowed is going to stand on its own"
Borderlands 3 creative director says "co-op has been radically underserved for years" and that's why Helldivers 2 was such a breakout success
News Arrowhead's success "shows people are hungry for this co-op experience"
One of our most-anticipated JRPGs for 2025 was being made "just for fun in the beginning" and "everybody was working for free"
News Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has scrappy origins
Helldivers 2 takes Critics' Choice Award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
News Job done, divers
Satisfactory snags PC Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
News A satisfactory result, indeed
Lethal Company wins Best Early Access Game at The Golden Joystick Awards 2024
News The horror co-op sensation beats out the competition from Palworld and Hades 2
Helldivers 2 takes home the prize for Best Multiplayer Game at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024
News Super Earth will be thrilled
Square Enix finally removes its ban on sharing Final Fantasy 7's biggest spoiler, 27 years after it first happened in the original JRPG
News Aerith's secret is out
Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P assures that the MMO's mobile spin-off won't be a gacha game as "that's not what we're about"
News You won't be rolling for gear in Final Fantasy 14 Mobile
Here's how to watch the Golden Joystick Awards 2024, hosted by Final Fantasy 16 favorite Ben Starr
News This year's Golden Joystick Awards 2024 stream is live at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT on November 21
Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says chasing industry trends with Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem "starts to dilute your focus," so he wanted to get back to BioWare's "very real strength"
News Character building and storytelling remains king
Final Fantasy 14 is coming to mobile so sprouts can experience the "grandeur of the original's story and combat," and card game sickos like me have another way to play Triple Triad
News Thank The Twelve
Stalker 2 release time – the countdown to the horror-soaked FPS is finally on after 14 years
News Here's when Stalker 2 releases in your time zone
Palworld's best defense against part of Nintendo's lawsuit could be an 8-year-old GTA 5 mod, according to one patent expert
News It's all down to timing
The Game Awards nominees prove that 2024 is the year of the JRPG, with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Metaphor ReFantazio leading the field
News Astro Bot is no slouch, either
Dragon Quest 3 remake producer would "love" to do more HD-2D JRPG remakes, but with 9 releases in 7 years, he worries fans may get "bored" of them
News "It’s something that even my supervisors are constantly unsure and mulling over"
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator slams AI "fraudsters'" influence over the manga industry after seeing a drawing so eerily reminiscent of his work he thought it was his
News Hirohiko Araki worries AI-generated fakes will be accepted as the real things if AI isn't regulated
After 20 years of WoW updates, will Blizzard ever need to wipe the slate clean? Maybe "at some long, distant point," but the MMO has already been totally "rebuilt"
News "We're constantly tearing out some old foundational system and replacing it"
WoW lead says "big bets" with World of Warcraft: The War Within were worth it – "Of course, yes, if I could catch that scaling bug, I'd love to go back"
News Blizzard's Ion Hazzikostas says, "At a very high level, there aren't too many regrets for me as a game director"
Recreating a 36-year-old JRPG classic put a mountain of pressure on the Dragon Quest 3 remake devs: "If this fails, I won't be able to stay in the industry"
News "I’ll have to live my life branded as the man who failed to remake a legendary game"
WoW Classic is getting Mists of Pandaria servers next year, and Blizzard is "staying true" to the 12-year-old MMO expansion "pretty much across the board"
News "I can't think of any real diversion points that we've talked about or made a decision on"
World of Warcraft is finally getting player housing: the Midnight expansion adds a feature that MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 have had for years
News There's no place like home
