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
Deep Rock Galactic devs drill for a Helldivers 2 collab, stream the game just to say please, pretty please don't leave us on read
By Harvey Randall published
News "Notice our body language. It's very open and vulnerable right now."
Yoshi-P reflects on Final Fantasy 14's stress-free casual content: 'looking back over the past 10 years, I think we may have overdone it a little bit'
By Harvey Randall published
News What I desire of you isn't succor. It is satisfaction.
PSA: The new Helldivers 2 Warbond isn't replacing the old one—so don't feel obliged to grind a bunch of super credits in a democracy-fuelled fugue
By Harvey Randall published
News You still might want to save some pocket change.
Helldivers 2's armoured bugs and terrifying tanks can crush you flat, but that's why I love them so
By Harvey Randall published
DAVID VS GOLIATH(S) Flamethrower hulk, my beloved.
WoW's latest Hearthstone event crushed to death by a tide of roleplayers, as selectively-applied server sharding causes utter chaos
By Harvey Randall published
News "Argent Dawn chooses violence."
Helldivers 2 patch finally tackles its infamous tank infestation, tweaks chargers so players can aim for the head instead of busting kneecaps
By Harvey Randall published
News Tank!
Seized by the spirit of democracy, Helldivers 2 CEO holds an impromptu workshop on how to improve the game's host-based kick system: 'there's always a better solution'
By Harvey Randall published
News Research & Development.
PUBG announces continued crackdowns on cheaters, user-generated content, a move to Unreal Engine 5, and the possibility of digging a hole like a chicken-hungry moleman
By Harvey Randall published
News PlayerUnknown's Burrowgrounds.
This jazzy roguelike puts your tiny painter in a canvas cage match and says go on then, 1v1 the Mona Lisa
By Harvey Randall published
News Paint some pain.
Former PlayStation boss calls exclusivity the industry's 'Achilles' heel … Helldivers 2 has shown that'
By Harvey Randall published
News Sweet, sweet liberty.
Chasing the Unseen is a delightfully strange and meditative take on Shadow of the Colossus, where the giant beasties can't hurt you and your mission is to climb
By Harvey Randall published
News You're a kid, now. There's a squid, wow.
Mechs are here! Helldivers 2 players liberate Tien Kwan blisteringly fast to get their hands on the EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit
By Harvey Randall published
News I'm gonna make the Fires of Rubicon look like a summer camp with this thing.
Helldivers 2 devs say they're gonna tone down the heavily-armoured creeps: 'We're currently looking at changes to the spawn rates and health pools'
By Harvey Randall published
News Titan, fall.
A company called Sweet Baby Inc. has become the target of 'anti-woke' gamers because it offers consultancy work, an industry-standard service that's been normal for years
By Harvey Randall published
conspiracy baby Consultants, not tyrants.
Helldivers 2 players aren't happy about the game's first balance patch—here's why
By Harvey Randall published
News Rail, Railgun against the dying of the light.
'I've been disappointed so many times': Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3 talks scrapping the lady stereotypes of RPG romances, says Larian just 'let me do what I wanted to do'
By Harvey Randall published
News "It was like, early on—who am I talking to? And they were like: 'The player. You're talking to the player.'"
While players are the main motive, Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's visual makeover is also meant to help devs 'advance their careers', says director Yoshi-P
By Harvey Randall published
News "The artists who are working on Final Fantasy 14, I wanted to give them a better environment."
Helldivers 2 dev lays out Arrowhead's strategy for buffing and nerfing the game's guns: 'Powerful weapons can't be too versatile, versatile weapons can't be too powerful'
By Harvey Randall published
News Meta-taming.
Helldivers 2 just dropped a chunky balance patch that fixes heavy armour, adds meteor swarms, and deals a blow to eradication mission farmers
By Harvey Randall published
News For Super Earth!
Buckle up—Helldivers 2 is getting mechs real soon, courtesy of the Tien Kwan Factories
By Harvey Randall published
News Deploying to a battlefield near you.
WoW Classic Hardcore player decides the terrifying climb to 60 wasn't hard enough, commits to using two DDR mats just to feel something
By Harvey Randall published
News Dance 'till you're dead.
Baldur's Gate 3 players can't figure out why Astarion sometimes goes full Grinch-mode after patch 6, but there's a mod that fixes it
By Harvey Randall published
News "I'm not entirely sure what's going on."
NASA releases an official tabletop adventure that's brave enough to ask: what would Earth be like if a dragon kidnapped a bunch of D&D wizards and stole the Hubble Space Telescope
By Harvey Randall published
News NASA D&D Isekai.
Baldur's Gate 3 is so meaty, our Xbox cousins will need to play the Digital Deluxe on 4 disks wrapped in 'little slips' and stuffed into a single-disk box
By Harvey Randall published
News "Suboptimal", says director of publishing.
'Not to interrupt, but they just laid us all off': Unionised YouTube workers in Texas are told in the middle of a live City Council meeting that they don't have jobs anymore
By Harvey Randall published
News While Google maintains worker's contracts were cut at "their natural expiry date", testimonies from the workers themselves paint a far harsher picture.