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

The three heroes of Deltarune walk across a walkway in Chapter 4.
Deltarune's 'The Third Sanctuary' is an affront to time signatures, and also one of my favourite songs in a videogame ever

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RIDE THE RHYTHM The drummer will say "please" and then "make it stop".

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A prey table in World of Warcraft: Midnight, with the Terminally Online column's sticker placed over it.
WoW developers reflect on Midnight's first season—a world without AddOns, task overload, and Prey

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AROUND THE CLOCK Curse of Ul'atek comes out next week, but how has Midnight's first season gone in the eyes of its devs?

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Left: An underwater lair entrance. Right: The resident of that lair, a three-tailed naga.
WoW's changing how world bosses work because they've 'really been a little bit lackluster' in recent years, says dev

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News "A lot of players just cluster into a boss. It drops in a few moments."

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Baldur's Gate 3 - Astarion wearing an admiral's hate in camp, shirtless
Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3

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News Hell, hell, hell has its laws. ToS, ToS, effects and the cause.

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Jason with customised Mac 10.
The first GTA 6 gameplay reveal will debut on Netflix later this month, as the streaming service tries yet again to get a piece of that videogame pie

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News Huh. Okay then.

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Leon and Grace Ashcroft in Resident Evil Requiem.
The actors behind Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft will take to the stage for the Future Games Show at Gamescom this month

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News We've got some evil residents in the building.

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Left: Attendees gather in front of an Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) logo displayed on a screen during the company's EA Play event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Saturday, June 10, 2017. EA revealed two new titles along with the annual iterations of the company's sports games, as well as unveiling the highly anticipated "Star Wars: Battlefront II" open-world multiplayer gameplay. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Right: Andrew Wilson, chief executive officer of Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), listens during the Wall Street Journal Tech Live global technology conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. The event brings together investors, founders, and executives to foster innovation and drive growth within the tech industry. Photographer: Martina Albertazzi/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means

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News Layoff season isn't over.

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Zul'jan, grandson of Zul'jin, stares angrily at his foe in World of Warcraft: Midnight.
WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce

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News Meeting them halfway.

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A Dragon's Dogma 2 party fights off again'st a griffin atop a grassy hill
Dragon's Dogma 2 will be getting an endgame hard mode difficulty in the future 'for seasoned players'

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News Dragon scale-ing difficulty.

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FF7 Remake's Cloud is sad
FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to 'be reasonable' because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: 'That would be putting the cart before the horse'

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News Worlds collide.

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A screenshot of the Occult Crescent in Final Fantasy 14.
Question time: What makes a 'good' grind in an MMO?

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GRINDSET Hear me out, then hear me out 1,000 more times.

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GRINDSET
Skyrim intro cinematic still - Hey, you. You're finally awake.
Nexus Mods finally tightens the screws on AI, though it's still playing softball with the tide of slop

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News "Failure to correctly tag mods, including undisclosed generative AI usage, may be subject to moderation action."

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A split image, showing artwork from a Dungeons & Dragon's sourcebook of a vicious beholder, and an image shared to social media of Darth Vader standing on stage at a D&D event.
Star Wars will also be coming to D&D, and I'm worried Hasbro's trying to turn a TTRPG into Magic: The Gathering again

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News Secret draconic lair.

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An old school runescape screenshot of a player on a boat that's stuck between two shorelines writing "help mee"
Old School RuneScape players are getting their boats stuck Suez Canal-style thanks to a narrow river in its new island: 'Helmp mee'

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News Helmp, I need somebody, helmp, not just anybody.

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation - Vincent Valentine holding a gun with fiery explosions in the background
Final Fantasy 7 remake director says he hopes Revelation will get 'some kind of physical edition' despite the industry and Sony's 'shift away' from discs

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News A difficult disc-ussion.

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An edited image of a zone in Final Fantasy 14 with the protagonist of The Backrooms movie imposed over it.
FF14's new zone has a creepy backrooms void tucked just underneath it, filled with horrible milky ruins and what I deem to be far too many arms

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News Ah, void-made horrors beyond my comprehension!

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Gustave looks sad
Clair Obscur developers see Sony's no-disk announcement as 'a sad decision', because they 'like to go outside, buy a game, and come back home with it'

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News "I think it's part of the beauty of art too—that it's something tangible that you can touch."

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Masayoshi Soken from Final Fantasy 14, edited to be pointing at a potential job symbol shown in the FF14 Evercold trailer.
I'm pretty sure we know Final Fantasy 14 Evercold's second job, unless Soken's playing a big trick on us

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News Haven't you heard, about the bird?

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Khadgar from World of Warcraft looks, aged and wounded, up at his savior.
Question time: How long have you been playing MMOs?

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TALLY UP A new age. Or an old one, depending.

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Divinity: Original Sin 2
The best co-op games to drag your pals into

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Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.

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EA vice president of advertising says game ads are a 'huge opportunity', but it 'has to make sense for the game'

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News "It is a bit nuanced title-by-title to make sure that you’re getting it right"

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CHIBA, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 26: The Xbox logo is seen during the Tokyo Game Show 2024 at Makuhari Messe on September 26, 2024 in Chiba, Japan. The gaming exhibition is one of the world's largest and will be held through September 29th. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
Report paints a picture of brutal cord-cutting inside Xbox layoffs: 'Many of us did not know what was happening for weeks'

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News "It was left to all of us to speculate and spiral and worry."

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Doom: The Dark Ages - Doom Guy with his mask broken laying on the ground in the Revelations DLC
Report contradicts Microsoft's statements that id Software hasn't been shoved onto Unreal from id Tech: 'It's most likely going to end up in the trash can'

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News "Success is detached from your ability to keep a job."

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A blistering combat ensues in a cage arena, with a giant metal hawk spewing great gouts of fire at a fleeing goblin in Pathfinder 2e.
Pathfinder 2e creators Paizo end partnership with Archives of Nethys, which offers most of the D&D alternative's ruleset for free, over legal confusion and paperwork

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News "We offered a marketing agreement to [Archives of Nethys to] make the change less impactful, but those conversations were not concluded before they chose to publish their notice."

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The boss of Dawntrail's 4th raid, Wicked Thunder, holds an Electrope cube to the air and floods it with levin.
Poll finds 100% of Japanese online game developers are using AI, though mostly for 'user preference analysis' and 'user behavior prediction'

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News The report comes courtesy of Japan's Online Game Association.

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