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

Crimson Desert voice actor says he had to keep pushing to get a cohesive story for Kliff
By Harvey Randall published
News "I kept just saying 'yes, but what is happening?!'"

WoW to get an official pride event, based on a community run that's raised money for 12 years
By Harvey Randall published
News We be runnin', mon.

Discussion: Is it okay for an MMO expansion's launch to be buggy?
By Harvey Randall published
LAUNCH DAY How many bugs is too many?

Astarion's actor from Baldur's Gate 3 has dodged similar roles: 'Repetition breeds stagnation'
By Harvey Randall published
News "They kinda want the Astarion thing."

'There are no leaks', says Stardew Valley creator, taking a hammer to the rumour mill
By Harvey Randall published
News Also, you don't have to worry about marriage candidates getting hitched.

Final Fantasy 14's Japanese age rating gets a bump, and it's all because of screenshots
By Harvey Randall published
News Square Enix has adjusted the rating "to maintain the freedom of Group Pose."

World of Warcraft: Midnight review: A brilliantly strong start with a few dents to buff out.
By Harvey Randall published
MORE THAN MID Gorgeous, ambitious, and messy—but far from a dark night of the soul.

WoW player finds out it costs 25 gold more for them per dungeon to use their mitigation
By Harvey Randall published
News Pay to play.

Tekken 8 devs promise better after latest patch, but fans are in full doom mode
By Harvey Randall published
News "It might genuinely be over."

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director defends DLSS 5: 'No way haters will stop this'
By Harvey Randall published
News "This is just a little uncanny beginning."

'Golden goose' indie games get Gabe Newell's attention, says Steam expert: 'You're like a little goblin that has a magical power to turn straw into gold'
By Harvey Randall published
News "He will say to you, 'oh god, please spin these wishlists into gold.'"

The new Crimson Desert patch adds private storage at base camp and nerfs a few bosses—also, Pearl Abyss knows the control scheme isn't great
By Harvey Randall published
News "We are currently preparing a patch to address this."

World of Warcraft: Midnight's class balancing is steering the MMO headfirst into a mistake that's been haunting FF14 for years
By Harvey Randall published
TWO MINUTES Two minute terror.

Crimson Desert launches to 239,000 players on Steam but 'Mixed' reviews, and it's mostly because of how dense and cryptic the whole thing is
By Harvey Randall published
News To read this article, press LB + RB, then release LB, then push in the left stick and tap A.

Clair Obscur's narrative lead says while it's 'a painful process' to write, AI has never tempted her: 'The whole point of writing is to express what I have in my head'
By Harvey Randall published
News Too right.

As a Pathfinder 2e sicko, I'm excited for Starfinder: Afterlight after playing an hour of its playtest—but Epictellers has a lot of work to do before demo time this summer
By Harvey Randall published
PATH FINDING Burdened with glorious knowledge.

Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal: PC Gamer reacts... not wholly positively
By PC Gamer Team published
So... DLSS 5 This has been one of the most controversial reveals of an Nvidia technology I can remember, and people have a lot of thoughts.

FromSoftware fans are so passionate, the upcoming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime will be 'under the microscope', says director
By Harvey Randall published
News It's a good thing the new trailer looks sick as hell.

FF14's most determined challenge runner finally hits a wall after 1,000 hours, then unveils a backup strategy that took 233 days to prepare in secret: 'I wanted so badly to tell people'
By Harvey Randall published
News If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it?

Blizzard struggles to balance its Abundance world event in a way that makes anybody happy, with recent potential nerfs making it even more stressful to optimize
By Harvey Randall published
News A done dance, this Abundance.

Bethesda steps in again to calm down hype around Starfield news next week, saying Todd Howard's EA College Football 26 skills are his 'only visionary power'
By Harvey Randall published
News "He appreciates all the passionate feedback."

Question time: How many of you actually care about going fast in an MMO dungeon?
By Harvey Randall published
BIG PULLS Gogogogog.

2 years after its announcement, FF14's monster-taming Beastmaster job finally arrives this year, along with what looks like a Slay the Spire-esque roguelike mode
By Harvey Randall published
News Maybe I've just been putting in too many runs.
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