Harvey Randall

Harvey Randall

Staff Writer

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

Protestors with an IWGB banner outside Take-Two's London office.
Fired Rockstar workers say you shouldn't boycott GTA 6 for them: 'We spent years pouring our hard work, skill, and creativity into making GTA'

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News "That doesn't mean we want you to let Rockstar off the hook."

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A screenshot of a multiplayer victory screen at the end of a preview build of Star Wars: Galactic Racer
Star Wars: Galactic Racer's multiplayer 'tour' mode is a chaotic arcade racer spliced with a MOBA, and that somehow works brilliantly

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FULL CIRCUIT Going on tour.

FULL CIRCUIT
The developers of Star Citizen look somewhat sheepish, sat around a set of monitors.
Star Citizen has a disastrously laggy stream with horrendous vibes, which isn't a great look when you're past $1 billion in funding

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News "We're at time—it's your show, wrap it up."

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Gale, from Baldur's Gate 3, looks over his shoulder in a sorrowful way - with the Dungeon Master logo overlaid on top.
RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them

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LOVE-HATE You're in this together.

LOVE-HATE
Cyberpunk 2077 screen detail
The bigwigs who want AI-generated NPCs and writing think you're too dumb to appreciate a good story—don't prove them right

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WRITE AND WRONG The delight's in the details.

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WRITE AND WRONG
Rideshare Stimulator trailer still - creepy looking dude side-eyeing out the window of his car
After a public scrap between CEO and former writer, Saber Interactive finally adds AI disclaimer to Steam page and doubles down: 'AI can and should help shape gamer experiences'

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News It's been a wild ride.

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Art of a monopoly man, promptly after breaking a disk which serves as the "0" in "2028".
Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'

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News Sony-only.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Raphael's Deal contract
Videogame lawyer says it's become 'just boilerplate' this year to include no-AI clauses in contracts: 'It's not worth the legal liability'

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News Looks like the law is finally catching up.

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Crimson Desert Kliff holding cat
Crimson Desert has done so well it'll be getting a DLC this year, with more details coming sooner than I expected given Pearl Abyss' breakneck pace

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News Pearl Abyss' new darling is getting more special treatment.

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A robot rises out of the sand in Rustbound.
Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler

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News Ahh, who needs a mask, anyway.

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Close-up of a masked man and woman holding guns as they enter a convenience store during a robbery
GTA 6 might not technically be $100, but it's had its cake and ate it too as pre-orders are 'skewing more to the premium edition'

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News Schrodinger's price change.

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A boss in Terraria Calamity flies, firing molten fireballs.
After 10 years, Terraria's biggest mod shuts down due to an 'irrecoverably tainted reputation' and grooming allegations

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News "Almost all passion we've had for the mod has been soured."

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Shade, the protagonist of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, sits poised in the driver's seat for a race.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer's singleplayer is a clever roguelike gauntlet I could easily sink hours into

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NOW THIS IS [RACING] Descenders, is that you, my beloved?

NOW THIS IS [RACING]
Halmarut holds Calyx in Final Fantasy 14.
Square Enix's 88% profit-bump financial report gives me hope for FF14, suggesting the MMO's finally not having to carry the company for once

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News Things are looking up.

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Doom: The Dark Ages - Doom Guy with his mask broken laying on the ground in the Revelations DLC
Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'

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News "The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."

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The three heroes of Deltarune walk across a walkway in Chapter 4.
Deltarune's 'The Third Sanctuary' is an affront to time signatures, and also one of my favourite songs in a videogame ever

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RIDE THE RHYTHM The drummer will say "please" and then "make it stop".

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RIDE THE RHYTHM
A prey table in World of Warcraft: Midnight, with the Terminally Online column's sticker placed over it.
WoW developers reflect on Midnight's first season—a world without AddOns, task overload, and Prey

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AROUND THE CLOCK Curse of Ul'atek comes out next week, but how has Midnight's first season gone in the eyes of its devs?

AROUND THE CLOCK
Left: An underwater lair entrance. Right: The resident of that lair, a three-tailed naga.
WoW's changing how world bosses work because they've 'really been a little bit lackluster' in recent years, says dev

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News "A lot of players just cluster into a boss. It drops in a few moments."

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Baldur's Gate 3 - Astarion wearing an admiral's hate in camp, shirtless
Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3

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News Hell, hell, hell has its laws. ToS, ToS, effects and the cause.

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Jason with customised Mac 10.
The first GTA 6 gameplay reveal will debut on Netflix later this month, as the streaming service tries yet again to get a piece of that videogame pie

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News Huh. Okay then.

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Leon and Grace Ashcroft in Resident Evil Requiem.
The actors behind Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft will take to the stage for the Future Games Show at Gamescom this month

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News We've got some evil residents in the building.

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Left: Attendees gather in front of an Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) logo displayed on a screen during the company's EA Play event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Saturday, June 10, 2017. EA revealed two new titles along with the annual iterations of the company's sports games, as well as unveiling the highly anticipated "Star Wars: Battlefront II" open-world multiplayer gameplay. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Right: Andrew Wilson, chief executive officer of Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), listens during the Wall Street Journal Tech Live global technology conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. The event brings together investors, founders, and executives to foster innovation and drive growth within the tech industry. Photographer: Martina Albertazzi/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means

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News Layoff season isn't over.

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Zul'jan, grandson of Zul'jin, stares angrily at his foe in World of Warcraft: Midnight.
WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce

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News Meeting them halfway.

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A Dragon's Dogma 2 party fights off again'st a griffin atop a grassy hill
Dragon's Dogma 2 will be getting an endgame hard mode difficulty in the future 'for seasoned players'

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News Dragon scale-ing difficulty.

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FF7 Remake's Cloud is sad
FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to 'be reasonable' because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: 'That would be putting the cart before the horse'

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News Worlds collide.

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