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
You're waking up to bad Galactic War news in Helldivers 2 because the bugs and bots don't sleep, says developer Arrowhead's CEO: 'It's a push and pull'
By Harvey Randall published
News The curse of CCU.
Palworld players turn to more honest work after a patch robs them of their nail grift: Dooming a merchant to a Greek mythology-tier punishment loop of burning to death forever
By Harvey Randall published
News Maybe Prometheus got off lightly.
The voice behind Final Fantasy 14's G'raha Tia was so dedicated to the role, his tongue swelled up on the West End: 'I had to record this in the day doing eight shows a night'
By Harvey Randall published
News Job-switching takes its toll.
There's an entire Skyrim mod dedicated to making you feel bad and weird about killing anybody, adding over 200 handwritten letters detailing their rich, inner lives
By Harvey Randall published
News You know what. Maybe I don't want to be the Dragonborn anymore.
Helldivers 2 has a balance patch coming, but 'it mostly consists of simple stat changes', says senior game designer
By Harvey Randall published
News Un-breaking the Breaker.
Borderlands studio Gearbox reportedly in the 'late stages' of a sale, as Embracer Group continues to hack off parts of itself to keep the lights on
By Harvey Randall published
News As a caged elephant once said: Money don't grow on trees.
Tomb Raider Remastered 1-3 devs downgrade strangely-superior Epic Games version, saying it had 'work-in-progress materials that do not represent our final quality expectations'
By Harvey Randall last updated
News Unearthing the truth.
Over 180,000 Helldivers 2 players are storming a single planet and are on track to liberate it in under 24 hours—unless Arrowhead's devious DM gets mean again (Update: He did)
By Harvey Randall last updated
News You wanna live forever?
WoW Classic's Season of Discovery devs announce plans to slash mount prices in half, ramp up XP gains to 100%, and create an eventual 20-player Molten Core
By Harvey Randall published
News Sky rockets in flight, discoverer's delight.
Helldivers 2 CEO describes the 'War Room' atmosphere on launch day, as a server-breaking tidal wave of unexpected divers came flooding in: 'We saw the graph, just—players rising and rising'
By Harvey Randall published
News "Suddenly we got this massive drop, and the server started freaking out."
RuneScape's official Twitter account unbanned after proving that, no, the game wasn't secretly an 8-year-old child
By Harvey Randall published
News I don't even get carded when I buy booze, anymore.
WoW unveils 8 new hero tree previews before The War Within, one of which makes you 5% taller than everybody else at all times
By Harvey Randall published
News Swole. Buff. Jacked.
Helldivers 2 community briefly mourns the loss of Malevelon Creek, a gloomy jungle planet that's fast become the holy grail of the playerbase
By Harvey Randall published
News Creek crawlers, hoo-rah!
Helldivers 2 devs say no, farmers aren't handing planets to the Automatons on a silver platter—they just aren't helping
By Harvey Randall published
News Chaotic neutral.
Baldur's Gate 3 player proves that fate is a skill issue, custom-orders a mod without 'a tiny bit of logic' behind it to turn all their rolls into 1s and beats the game anyway
By Harvey Randall published
News Making your own luck.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake's final scene gets a script change 2 days before its sequel drops, and it's going down about as well as you'd expect
By Harvey Randall published
News The cloud-based strife.
Palworld's latest patch fixes bugs, buffs the letter F, leaves the nail economy in shambles, and lets you generate volcanic heat with 4 campfires
By Harvey Randall published
News Blacksmiths hate this one weird trick!
Alan Wake 2 speedrunner is possessed by the spirit of dance, sacrifices a whole minute to rock out to the game's best song via audience flash mob
By Harvey Randall published
News "This absolutely lost us time, but it was worth it."
Helldivers 2's first big war isn't suffering because of tough evac missions or medal-hoarding farmers—it's the pass-or-fail reward structure that's spoiling the fun
By Harvey Randall published
ROBOT STOP A case for positive reinforcement over punishment.
Helldivers 2 finally liberated from the bulk of its server issues as Arrowhead CEO celebrates having 'time to focus on improvements' like rad mechs and (probably) stealth gear
By Harvey Randall published
News Helldiving. In my lane. Killing bugs. Moisturised. Thriving.
'Please stop that': In the run-up to Baldur's Gate 3 modding support, Larian's head of publishing speaks out against 'threats and toxicity against our devs and community teams'
By Harvey Randall published
News "We need people to understand that these conversations take time."
Some Helldivers 2 players are inexplicably killing each other for resources, despite a dozen different UI elements telling you they're shared
By Harvey Randall published
News Super Earth hasn't been sending its best.
'We love you, we hate money': Ultrakill and Gloomwood developer New Blood is offering discounts on all its games (and some body pillows) for its 10 year anniversary
By Harvey Randall published
News Deals so good they'll have you saying MORTIS.