Harvey Randall

Harvey Randall

Staff Writer

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

A group of raiders tackling a dungeon in World of Warcraft: Forever.
Now it's over, WoW: Forever's beta has left me with just one fear—its endgame

By Harvey Randall Published

LINE GO UP How do you zig when all you know is zag?

LINE GO UP
Mass Effect 4 teaser image
'What we were cooking was really cool': An award-winning science fiction author was working on Mass Effect 5's story

By Harvey Randall Published

News What could've been.

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Mass Effect's Amazon series is reportedly continuing after BioWare shutdown, which'll make an uncomfortable gravestone for the studio's work

By Harvey Randall Published

News Here lies BioWare's sci-fi opera, you can tell because we put 'Mass Effect' on the gravestone.

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Melinoe from Hades 2 raises her hand while casting a potent incantation.
No soundtrack does it like Hades 2

By Harvey Randall Published

GOOD GODS I'm still listening to this thing a year later.

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GOOD GODS
A wizard casting a time spell from Deep Magic: Time Magic by Kobold Press.
Surprising no-one, Wizards of the Coast 'doesn't intend to voluntarily recognize' union efforts for the second time this year

By Harvey Randall Published

News "Wizards is not neutral on the question of unionization."

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An orc crying in front of The Barrens in World of Warcraft.
Discussion time: Do you think zone chats in MMOs are forces for good, or evil?

By Harvey Randall Published

[1. General] What's up, Barrens Chat.

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[1. General]
Steam and the Epic Games launcher represented as two cars on a race track.
Former Valve writer baffled by Epic CEO Tim Sweeney's attempts to compete with Steam via vibe coding

By Harvey Randall Published

News Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek had some strong words for the Epic boss.

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A triple image showing artwork from the upcoming game Red Rooster.
Disco Elysium splinter studio's Red Rooster is going to be a 'an incendiary, physics-driven RPG' where you play an inmate, an opiate-fuelled mathematician, and a bus driver with nunchucks

By Harvey Randall Published

News Setting the world on fire.

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An orc in World of Warcraft grins greedily into a bag overflowing with gold.
WoW: Forever has a new kind of ban to deal with real money trading

By Harvey Randall Published

News Time isn't money, friend.

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GTA 6 character Brian Heder
GTA 6 was delayed partially because the amount of NPCs was 'horrifying' and required a dedicated studio full of writers to handle

By Harvey Randall Published

News "We [could have] hit that schedule, but it won’t be the game we want to make."

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Eric Barone and a screenshot of haunted chocolatier
Haunted Chocolatier is still 'a town game', but it'll be more of an action RPG: 'It's for the people in Stardew Valley that go into the mines'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Farming dungeons, not gourds.

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Asha Sharma in Microsoft's Unlocking the AI Revolution showcase: "Join us for this insightful interview with Asha Sharma where she will outline the forward direction for AI products, focusing on how they can assist administrators and IT professionals in managing costs and enhancing their operations. Asha will also highlight exciting use cases and real-world applications of AI that have emerged over the past year and a half."
Hundreds of layoffs and many cancelled projects later, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reportedly says 'we will not survive' without new IPs

By Harvey Randall Published

News Having one's cake and eating it too is meant to be a metaphor.

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Glen Schofield stands in a large field
Dead Space creator says he was 'forced to ship' The Callisto Protocol by Krafton: 'We had f*cking Covid'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Kraftoff.

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Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown - A young woman holding up a parchment
Pearl Abyss goes easy on us critics for our Crimson Desert reviews: 'They had to play the build that is not the exact same version of the launched game'

By Harvey Randall Published

News "I don't think critics had a fair chance to explore."

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Biddy Blas looking bashful in Star Wars: Galactic Racer.
'The algorithm continues to properly prioritise Mister Biddy Blas'—Star Wars: Galactic Racer has created the perfect creature

By Harvey Randall Published

News Glup would be proud.

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An image of the middle lane in Deadlock, a bright, neon 1950s representation of Times Square.
Deadlock's City Never Sleeps update makes Valve's MOBA my favorite videogame setting in years

By Harvey Randall Published

APPLE OF MY EYE I wanna be a part of it, New York, New York.

APPLE OF MY EYE
A flipped image of the dwarf in World of Warcraft: Forever's cinematic trailer, smelling a flower.
WoW: Forever, by casting off modern convenience, has horseshoed back around to being casual friendly again

By Harvey Randall Published

REROLL No Season-ing.

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REROLL
A screenshot of the World of Warcraft: Forever beta. A pair of Orcs in the Crossroads rest on the dry ground.
WoW: Forever dev says 'there's a real longing for that slower, more deliberate pace' in MMOs: 'A deliberate pushback on this go go go nature'

By Harvey Randall Published

News "It could be something with the times that we live in."

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A screenshot of WoW Forever. A group of heroes fight a glowing enemy in an elven city.
WoW: Forever's list of changes snowballed as Blizzard got more excited, says dev: 'Our original pitch internally was: We'll do 4 new dungeons'

By Harvey Randall Published

News "There is a version of WoW Forever that really is that version of Vanilla with just a couple slight class changes."

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The protagonist of At Fate's End, with a glowing necklace.
Spiritfarer dev's next game, At Fate's End, is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen

By Harvey Randall Published

News Simply gorgeous.

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A triple image showing three WoW characters and their players.
We tried to earn as much gold in WoW: Forever as we could in 2 hours—which involved a mugging, slander, and at least one crashout

By Harvey Randall, Joshua Wolens, Fraser Brown Published

TIME IS MONEY Wisdom, charisma, and courage.

TIME IS MONEY
The cast of Critical Role take a moment, filled with stress.
Critical Role's latest D&D episode was so stressful, I discovered a new noise my mouth can make

By Harvey Randall Published

News Working names: A lell. A laull? I'll workshop it.

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You can zip around WoW: Forever in this nifty map viewer

By Harvey Randall Published

World of Warcraft
A roegadyn woman hugs Urianger in Final Fantasy 14, with the Terminally Online (PC Gamer's MMO column) logo placed atop it.
Has your life ever been changed by someone you met in an MMO?

By Harvey Randall Published

DISCUSSION TIME Raise a glass to your digital ride-or-dies.

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DISCUSSION TIME
A crying orc in World of Warcraft: Forever.
The WoW: Forever beta's nerf to dungeon XP isn't nearly as bad as it seems

By Harvey Randall Published

News The danger of skimming patch notes.

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