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
Dawntrail's opening hour made my heart so full, which is almost enough to distract me from these mysterious gimp suits
By Harvey Randall published
News Hey, uh, Square? How are these story-relevant? Square?
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player does an 'all-hit' run of the DLC's final boss, refusing to dodge, block, parry, or even heal until the job is done
By Harvey Randall published
News "Boss mechanics? I think you mean 'boss suggestions'."
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Steam numbers have dwindled into the low hundreds, placing it side-by-side with Gotham Knights
By Harvey Randall published
News No more anti-heroes.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's 7.0 graphics update really is a game-changer—breathing life, colour, and atmosphere into the 11-year old MMO
By Harvey Randall published
News Seeing it, believing it, hearing, feeling, and thinking it.
The deadliest weapon in Shadow of the Erdtree is a bottle of perfume that can evaporate the DLC's final boss in 13 seconds, thanks to hitbox buffoonery
By Harvey Randall published
News Lightning, in a bottle.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail gets its own in-universe tourism website, complete with activity recs, recipes, and small-print about dying horribly
By Harvey Randall published
News "All visitors must acknowledge that death can technically be considered a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
FromSoftware all but gets on its knees and begs Shadow of the Erdtree players to take their Scadutree supplements, posts a map to one on Steam
By Harvey Randall published
News Take your dang medicine.
I've just been put to shame: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player parries its final boss into the dirt like they're Gwyn, Lord of Chumps
By Harvey Randall published
News Ah, damnit.
Shadow of the Erdtree's dense, dungeon-heavy map made me wish again (in spite of its upsides) that Elden Ring didn't go open world
By Harvey Randall published
TARNISHED PERSPECTIVE Back in my day, "legacy dungeons" were the whole package, grumble grumble.
This Baldur's Gate 3 mod turns the game into a chaotic roguelike, which is great if you just want to slay some monsters like you're in an old school D&D campaign
By Harvey Randall published
News Roll for initiative, again and again.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's latest patch buffs your power in its earlier hours, with 'other balance adjustments' to come—also, you may need to turn ray tracing off again
By Harvey Randall published
News Tipping the Scadutree Scale.
Nearly 6 months later, Palworld devs confirm Nintendo never drew so much as an inch of its legal sword over bootleg Pokémon allegations
By Harvey Randall published
News The storm has passed overhead.
404 deaths and 32 hours deep into his DLC marathon, Elden Ring streamer Kai Cenat tells difficulty critics to 'put your big boy pants on, go out there, and go fight'
By Harvey Randall published
News Git gud 2.0.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's preliminary patch notes are here—showing fixes to those annoying stealth quests and the ability to banish NPC-crowding players to the shadow realm
By Harvey Randall published
News 7.0 is just around the corner.
If you'd like to play Elden Ring as a powerful bare-fisted Dryleaf monk (but don't want to wait 100 levels), this mod lets you get Shadow of the Erdtree's gear right away
By Harvey Randall published
News First off, seek armaments.
Avowed's devs tap the it's not Skyrim sign for the third time in a year (at least), and 'don't love' to compare games, anyway
By Harvey Randall published
News It has been 0 days since the last workplace comparison.
Please be nice about FF14: Dawntrail spoilers if you're in early access, says Square Enix, as some players will start 'at the official launch or play at their own pace'
By Harvey Randall published
News I'd avoid YouTube for a while, just in case the thumbnail goblins get any ideas.
Shadow of the Erdtree's bosses are a delightful new tier of suffering—but threaten to make Elden Ring a worse RPG
By Harvey Randall published
BOSS CRUSH Game of thrown controllers.
As Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree continues to pound players into the dirt, Bandai Namco calls them out in the most devastatingly polite way possible
By Harvey Randall published
News "This is a suggestion to level up your Scadutree Blessing."
Larian gave Baldur's Gate 3 its acclaimed reactivity by approaching it as 'weird Dungeon Masters'
By Jody Macgregor published
News "We don't know who you want to kill, but you will want to kill someone."
'Seems the Spear is cursed': Even in an otherwise good Helldivers 2 patch, the FAF-14 Spear can't catch a break as it starts crashing games
By Harvey Randall published
News Why do I feel sympathy for a rocket launcher.
'We just happened to release it into the market at the right time': Even after Elden Ring's DLC victory lap, FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki still wears the 'soulslike' crown with humility
By Harvey Randall published
News "We’re all working within the same sandbox, in a way."
6 months after revealing plans to become 'aggressive in applying AI', Square Enix's president announces he's being careful in applying AI
By Harvey Randall published
News "We will actively use them in areas unrelated to creativity."
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