Harvey Randall
Harvey's history with games started when he first begged his parents for a World of Warcraft subscription aged 12, though he's since been cursed with Final Fantasy 14-brain and a huge crush on G'raha Tia. He made his start as a freelancer, writing for websites like Techradar, The Escapist, Dicebreaker, The Gamer, Into the Spine—and of course, PC Gamer. He'll sink his teeth into anything that looks interesting, though he has a soft spot for RPGs, soulslikes, roguelikes, deckbuilders, MMOs, and weird indie titles. He also plays a shelf load of TTRPGs in his offline time. Don't ask him what his favourite system is, he has too many.
Latest articles by Harvey Randall
Disney finally springs the mousetrap on Pixelborn, an impressive, fanmade, and unfortunately doomed digital client for TCG Lorcana
By Harvey Randall published
News "My heart is shattered to pieces."
The new Helldivers 2 major order has some major issues, as the super colony of Meridia proves a little too super
By Harvey Randall published
News "My brother in christ this is a trivial difficulty mission."
The Backrooms, a liminal space so internet-famous it spawned its own canon, has been found in the real world by 4 sleuths on a Discord server
By Harvey Randall published
News Liminal legend lore.
Minecraft is building its own Netflix-exclusive series that'll explore 'the world of Minecraft in a new light', and no, it's not Story Mode
By Harvey Randall published
News "More updates to come."
'My kids weren't born yet, and now they're in primary school learning how to make their own games': Game Dev Tycoon studio head talks taking 10 years to make his upcoming inn sim, Tavern Keeper
By Harvey Randall published
News "What people always say is that you should have a playable game from day one—but systems management games don't work like that."
One of Larian Studios' next games has a codename—Excalibur, though 'if we're brutally honest, we're trying to figure out what the hell it is', says Swen Vincke
By Harvey Randall published
News Sword's still being pulled from the stone.
Players are up in arms after the WoW Mists of Pandaria: Remix team refuses to budge on the whopping 577,950 bronze cost to upgrade all your gear
By Harvey Randall published
News It really is Panda-monium out there.
Gen Z and Gen Alpha crave games with 'more meaning' and 'personalisation across everything' according to PlayStation exec—who implies that (you guessed it) AI is the answer
By Harvey Randall published
News AI: It's got what kids crave.
'Banana', a game where you rapidly click on a jpeg of a banana and nothing else, has an all-time peak of 31,124 players on Steam—here's why
By Harvey Randall published
News The egglike genre cometh.
This Nier: Automata wine has been existentially-aged by being forced to listen to the game's soundtrack on loop
By Harvey Randall published
News Turns out, the S in 9S stands for "sommelier".
Elden Ring streamer completes a level 1 playthrough beating the game's 165 bosses—on NG+7, a difficulty she had to finish the game 7 times over just to reach
By Harvey Randall published
News "In total, I died 2,145 times".
The Rogue Prince of Persia, a new roguelike from the folks who made Dead Cells, is out in early access—and boy can that prince already schmoove
By Harvey Randall published
News I'm a simple man: I see a wall, I run on it.
Japanese government commissions baffling metaverse to combat loneliness where you can't talk to anyone, enforced via a digital security guard
By Harvey Randall published
News "I don't think there's a more lonely metaverse like this anywhere in the world."
Farmers who 'killed an unreasonably large number of Gulp Frogs' for bronze and power have had their demi-godhood stripped from them in WoW's Mists of Pandaria: Remix
By Harvey Randall published
News Live to win, 'till you croak.
A delightfully-detailed, Discworld-inspired inn manager with absurd furniture customisation stashed in the larder: Tavern Keeper enters early access this year
By Harvey Randall published
News It's taken Game Dev Tycoon studio Greenheart Games a full decade to put this thing together, and it shows.
The best Baldur's Gate 3 multiclass builds for tackling Tactician and Honour mode
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Kensai/Mage Why stick with just one class when you could have, like, four?
Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days, but 'grit, camaraderie and compassion' saw the team through
By Harvey Randall published
News That's a long deployment.
Final Fantasy 14 offers returning players 4 days of free playtime on the house until late June—but you've gotta be real careful about when you choose to start
By Harvey Randall published
News Trying not to look a gift chocobo in the mouth.
Helldivers 2's latest major order promises a mech with 2 entire Autocannons strapped onto it—though there's a small chance it could slip through players' fingers
By Harvey Randall published
News Gee, diver, how come your mom lets you have TWO autocannons?
Blizzard confirms it's working on a 1-5 player 'story difficulty' for its big raids in World of Warcraft: The War Within, and it's honestly about time
By Harvey Randall published
News LFR isn't exactly immersive.
'Warner Bros. is threatening to destroy my YouTube Channel' says popular modder, alleging that a sweep of copyright claims forced them to scrub 1 billion views' worth of videos from the internet
By Harvey Randall published
News "I've been requested to delete all Mortal Kombat 1 videos from my channel."
New gacha hotness Wuthering Waves is suffering from some catastrophic launch issues, despite making a big splash on Twitch
By Harvey Randall published
News Dubs, not (displaying) subs.
Mighty allfather of FPS games and co-creator of Doom John Romero decrees that 'gib' is pronounced in the most upsetting way possible
By Harvey Randall published
News Gifs all over again.