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
The Dragon's Dogma 2 microtransactions are real and bafflingly silly, since nearly all of them can be found in the game without too much trouble
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News "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
The best starting class in Dragon's Dogma 2
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BEST IN CLASS Decisions, decisions, Arisen.
WoW's new pirate battle royale ignites a baffling flame war between PvP and PvE players, meanwhile Blizzard's ramping up the rewards to make the grind a touch kinder
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News Plunderstorm? More like Ratiostorm.
Super Earth finally admits flying bugs exist in Helldivers 2, then blames galactic war map hiccups on dissidents that have been 'identified, arrested, tried, and executed'
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News The truth is out there (and has been approved by the Ministry of Truth).
Putting the roleplay back in the RPG was a huge reason for Cyberpunk 2077's recent metro and romance updates, says associate game director: 'It's easy to overlook'
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News The vibes are vital.
The mastermind behind Baldur's Gate 3's popular TikTok account spills his secrets: The sooner you can 'make a character look like Shrek and kick somebody off a cliff' unsupervised, 'the better'
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News Somebody once told me to roll a d20, they used their Acrobatics instead.
Helldivers 2 player photographs two myths—flying bugs and blue lasers—at the same time, like getting a shot of Bigfoot next to a UFO
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News That's gotta be a one in a million.
Fallen London studio says its latest game 'didn't sell particularly well', but don't worry—it's been sensible enough with its cash to avoid layoffs: 'We've had better years, but also much worse'
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News Failbetter failing, but better.
Helldivers 2 patch tackles patrols appearing out of thin air, over-the-top meteor swarms, and accidentally blowing yourself up with your own mech
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News You should self-destruct a little less, thanks to Super Earth R&D.
The Twitch hot tub meta has reached new heights with a green-screen booty scene, and I'm mostly just upset by how inefficient it is
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News The FOV on those cheeks is terrible!
Lego goes all-out on a 3,745 piece D&D set with its own bespoke TTRPG adventure, but it'll set you back a dragon's ransom of $360
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News Can bricks roll? They can certainly try.
The English actors behind FF14's beloved twins acted in silos for 9 whole years before meeting in the real world, but became fast friends: 'it's become easier to bounce off each other'
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News Familial-ity.
Astarion's actor was deployed to replace the missing mocap of around 150 lines of Baldur's Gate 3 dialogue: 'I just had this dog's breakfast'
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News A spawn of many talents.
'It's just cosmetics' monetisation doesn't quite hold up anymore, especially now it's started to make fully-priced games worse
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UPSELLING BLUES Premium punishment.
Top-tier deckbuilder Balatro hits 1 million sales in less than a month, which hopefully justifies all the hours we've collectively lost to it
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News Upping the ante.
Helldivers 2 CEO becomes a blue beam denialist as mystery snipers allegedly take potshots at the playerbase: 'Blue beams aren't real, they can't hurt you'
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News The truth is out there.
Cities: Skylines 2 will finally start getting modding support, alongside some performance fixes and its first wave of paid DLC
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News Four trees.
Palworld is getting its first raid battle soon, featuring a giant goth girl that I'm sure people will be very normal about
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News Partying with your pals, and your Pals, to pummel another Pal.
'I cannot get enough of this game': the actor behind Super Earth's most melodramatic spokesperson has been playing Helldivers 2 nonstop
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News "I've been hopping on to squish bugs and stomp bots every chance I get."
We are once more informing you that the KOTOR remake is probably delayed for at least another year
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News Time is a flat circle.
The leading man of Helldivers 2's hilarious cinematic PSA had a blast filming it—also, there's an improvised democratic 'freestyle rap' somewhere at Arrowhead HQ
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News I'm a Helldiver and I'm here to say, I love spreading democracy in a major way.
V Rising declares a 1.0 release date, climbing from the grave of a years-long early access to become your next time vampire
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News What do we do in the shadows? Interior design and a bit of murder, mostly.
In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there
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News A well-oiled Steam machine.