
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

Upcoming Silksong patch will make the early game easier and the mid-game cheaper—nerfing 2 bosses and shoring up its stingy rosary economy
By Harvey Randall published
News The economy's in shaw-mbles.

Working out how to fix the Sinner's Road bench in Hollow Knight: Silksong has convinced me that Team Cherry just doesn't want me to sit down anywhere
By Harvey Randall published
NO REST Sinful sitting.

If you're having trouble with Silksong's difficulty, keep going—Act 2 is worth the pain, and it does get 'easier'
By Harvey Randall published
SOW, REAP The only way is up.

Silksong players are wrestling with the game's 'stabs you and kicks you for crying about it' difficulty
By Harvey Randall published
News It's really bugging them. Get it? Did you get the joke?

I spoke to FF14's 'Solo Only', who spent 85 days beating a single raid boss on his own, and I was wrong—that old MMO magic is still alive and well
By Harvey Randall published
CHALLENGE FUN A genre reborn.

Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry's extraordinarily hyped sequel
By Lincoln Carpenter published
First notes Were those six years of Silksanity well spent?

Borderlands 4 devs want to redeem the series' story, which is a tall task, since it's always been all over the place
By Harvey Randall published
NO BORDERS Who are you really, and where are you going?

Yes, there's a bench in Hunter's March, Silksong's first real nightmare area
By Harvey Randall published
BENCH TEST Team Cherry's not that cruel.

Silksong achievement suggests it'll take at least 10 hours longer to 100% complete compared to Hollow Knight—even for the fastest players
By Harvey Randall published
News Gotta skong fast.

After 1,693 days of daily Silksong news, its skeletal host signs off with heartfelt thanks: 'We have finally reached an end. So let's do this one last time'
By Harvey Randall published
News End of an Ara.

2 of Deadlock's 6 new heroes are running over low-skill matches—I'd know, because they've been stomping me flat into the sidewalk like a chump
By Harvey Randall published
News Victor-y.

Hacker jacks into Nexon game, causes a 'Koyuki apocalypse' by copy-pasting their favourite anime girl everywhere, forces 6 hours of emergency maintenance
By Harvey Randall published
News Nihahaha.

Jetrunner is a great little 'Trackmania meets Titanfall' speedrunning platformer I had to peel myself away from to write this headline
By Harvey Randall published
News Love a good walljump, me.

This RPG lets you enable (or disable) the Oxford comma, despite there being just 15 of them in the entire game: 'He added the setting when nobody was looking'
By Harvey Randall published
News An interesting, unique, and confounding UI option.

$350 collector's editions, an 8-billion all-time peak, and fake thank-you letters: Silksong's finest meme merchants enjoy one last bout of Silkposting before the curtain call
By Harvey Randall published
News You don't have to SHAW, but you can't stay here.

Borderlands 1's artstyle overhaul filled Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford with dread because he thought he'd 'Have to go in and look at what they did' and 'shoot it in the head'
By Harvey Randall published
News Turns out? Absolutely the right call.

Capcom president says PS5 prices are why Monster Hunter Wilds' sales aren't doing so hot, and we're trying not to take that personally here at PC Gamer
By Harvey Randall published
News Hey! We're here too!

Wading into Helldivers 2's new Terminid hives to blow up their hearts, all as hordes of bugs swarm you is, unsurprisingly, exactly as cool as it sounds
By Harvey Randall published
GOT HIVES Arrowhead's co-op shooter goes from strength to strength.

Final Fantasy 14's latest patch makes surprise nerf to an arduous 9-year-old dungeon grind, and I hope there's more like it to come
By Harvey Randall published
News Aetherpooling your resources.

If you're like me and fell off Valve's other MOBA Deadlock, these last few months of updates are worth coming back for
By Harvey Randall published
LOCKED IN Faster, frantic, fun.

'Magicka scares me', says Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt, since it was made at a time where Arrowhead was much smaller—but he'd still like to revisit the series 'at some point'
By Harvey Randall published
News Things have changed.

'Min spec is certainly one of our most important': Battlefield 6 dev says low-end build players were a 'meaningful percentage' of the beta, and he aims to keep it that way
By Harvey Randall published
News No soldier left behind.

How well do you know your MMORPGs? Test your memory for talents, spells, and classes with our new quiz
By Harvey Randall published
TRIVIA+ From WoW, to SW:TOR, to DDO—time to put that otherwise useless trivia to the test.
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