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

Question time: How often do you actually talk to strangers in MMOs?
By Harvey Randall published
HELLO SOLO Solo or hello?

Dominos Pizza UK has joined the gamer culture slapfight over God of War: Laufey, and I'd really like to just skip this part, please
By Harvey Randall published
News Not the way I wanted to round out my week.

I made treants awkwardly rub shoulders with ringwraiths in the Total War-style RTS roguelike Tabletop Tavern, and I'm surprised as anybody that it worked
By Harvey Randall published
News It takes all sorts.

Final Fantasy 14's solo only challenge runner overcomes impossible odds again, this time by blowing himself up
By Harvey Randall published
News Blue Mage to the rescue.

I played 3 hours of the Rayman Legends 3D remake—and while I miss the 2D artstyle, boy is it still pretty
By Harvey Randall published
HEY MAN, RAYMAN Rayman Legends Retold will have some new features, too.

The Rayman Legends remake has brought on Banjo Kazooie and DK64 composer Grant Kirkhope, who can apparently spin up gold in a day: 'He's super fast'
By Harvey Randall published
News "He comes in one day later with something unbelievable."

Subnautica 2's no-killing policy isn't because it's 'a game about pacifism', says design lead, but because players would 'master the crappy combat' over anything else
By Harvey Randall published
News "They'll be mad at you, and they'll sit there and take time to learn it."

Former BioWare producer says we could be saved from a world where there's 'no AAA games that aren't live services' by looking to movies
By Harvey Randall published
News Hello, Hollywood.

After being shut down by Blizzard, one of WoW's biggest private servers is saying screw it, we'll make our own MMO
By Harvey Randall published
News TurtleWoW's coming out of its shell.

A toast to the wild west weirdos of the MMO goldrush—from the game that unleashed pandora's lootbox, to a deeply strange mess based off a 1996 science fiction novel
By Harvey Randall published
ODD ONES Trendsetting freaks of 2005-2015, I salute thee.

One of the ideas pitched to save Destiny 2 was reportedly a 'Destiny Infinity' relaunch and a return to the annual expansion model
By Harvey Randall published
News Things could've been different—but enough to save it? Who knows.

Take-Two CEO says 'former Rockstar employees' have tried to match GTA's success and 'haven't been able to'—and while he doesn't name names, that's gotta sting for a certain someone
By Harvey Randall published
News MindsEye given the side-eye.

Resident Evil Requiem has a demo now, despite the fact it came out 3 months ago and sold over 7 million copies
By Harvey Randall published
News Giving a little Grace.

Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve's still experimenting
By Harvey Randall published
News Oops, all urns.

No, says Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, of course Red Dead Online isn't a missed opportunity, the game sold 85 million copies
By Harvey Randall published
News "Red Dead Online has been immensely successful and long lasting."

MMOs don't need 'to be 200 hours of unique content' at launch, says industry vet
By Harvey Randall published
News "There's probably a reason why EA never wanted to hire me."

'People want MMOs', says veteran designer Jack Emmert, it's the publishers chasing WoW-level scope that are the problem
By Harvey Randall published
News "You see games that are basically features without any soul."

PC Gamer's MMO readers are, according to you, fashion-forward healers who like your keybinds, and I couldn't be more proud
By Harvey Randall published
ROUND-UP MMO to the polls.

3 years on from laying off over 1,000 people, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are sending daily emails and physical letters encouraging the survivors to not unionise
By Harvey Randall published
News Hey, at least the Pinkertons aren't involved yet.

Dune: Awakening has decided it's 'not an MMO' anymore
By Harvey Randall published
News Just a very complicated survival game.

Mouseward is an adorably gloomy soulslike where you play an itty bitty undead mouse collecting stars, and it has a demo out now
By Harvey Randall published
News Grave tidings.

It's the year 2026, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will be streaming regularly on Twitch starting today
By Harvey Randall published
News Does this come under "just chatting?"

WoW: Midnight's hardcore raiders are on a gold treadmill, with a first-time clear of Mythic Midnight Falls costing around 87,750 gold in repairs alone
By Harvey Randall published
News And that's before consumables, which ramps that bill up to 340,692 if you're going full tryhard.
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