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
![An image of a fighter - a large, burly man in a dinosaur onesie, as featured in OutRage: Fight Fest.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uNkbuzKrcmJmZ8EcHt5LaR-320-80.png)
OutRage: Fight Fest is a nifty 16-player brawler that's trying to do punch-'em-up Fall Guys, but I'm just not sure there's enough depth to get people hooked
By Harvey Randall published
News Give 'em the old one, two, three. Now repeat that forever.
![Phil Spencer answers a question during an interview at IGN Live 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dhpjEegSgT8XjEK4oD7SN-320-80.png)
Phil Spencer continues to dance around Hi Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks' closure, says he has 'to make hard decisions that frankly are not decisions I love'
By Harvey Randall published
News The line must continue to go up.
![A quartet of plucky high-school students stand before an ominous skeleton boss looming out of the shadows, with a bone to pick from them, in Demonschool.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/muG43cJyrx5qUjwmzMdPv7-320-80.png)
Demonschool is a promising occult turn-based tactics take on Persona that's finally coming out this year, and I think we've got another Into the Breach on our hands
By Harvey Randall published
PCGS School's in for summer.
![The groovin', revolutionary protagonist of All Systems Dance busts a move.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Qcu8NBCenpprqoh6yY4xeh-320-80.png)
You can dance, dance, and start a revolution in All Systems Dance: a grooving adventure game where you reprogram robots by shakin' it
By Harvey Randall published
PCGS "The revolution will not be choreographed."
![A band of toads stand ready to take back the Bayou in Toads of the Bayou, a roguelike deckbuilder from La Grange.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fJ5JcD8YgBPkpiMZ2Gd9hB-320-80.png)
Take back your swamp in Toads of the Bayou, a deckbuilding roguelike with a splash of turn-based-tactics for flavour
By Harvey Randall published
PCGS Lock 'n' Toad.
![Three rascal teenagers make their way up some stairs in a well-lit house in Mixtape.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ag8k2559udSRHXi2RhUyjP-320-80.png)
Mixtape looks like it's going to do Life is Strange better than the new Life is Strange will
By Harvey Randall published
News If Max had a nickel for every time her best friend died as an inciting incident, she'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
![Avowed screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XrYfkKMeyoVMdLacEWbdHf-320-80.jpg)
Obsidian's next RPG Avowed gets a trailer hinting at a trio of factions—those who want to purge the Dream Scourge, those who want to tame it, and a secret third thing
By Harvey Randall published
News Mysterious energies.
![Faerin Lothar of the Arathi Empire looks over a gold-plated shoulder to stare determinedly at the camera.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PUcVgkAjvLzFTCkQ2JZMR4-320-80.png)
World of Warcraft: The War Within gets a release date, marking the exact start of the MMO's new 3-expansion long era—as well as a shiny CG trailer
By Harvey Randall published
News Xal'atath's got a hunger that only World Souls can satisfy.
![The protagonist of South of Midnight wears a confident smirk.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iYwKrm32AkZoQGe7U2dmyb-320-80.png)
South of Midnight, a gorgeous action adventure game with weighty, Souls-adjacent combat and stylised cutscenes will be dodge-rolling onto PC next year
By Harvey Randall published
News Alright, I'm sold.
![A banana from Banana, rendered above a SteamDB chart.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZBwYP5mC8YwEs7JomxkhiK-320-80.png)
Bare bones Steam item generator Banana rakes in over 100,000 concurrents in the span of a few days—reaches top 10 on Steam's 'most played'
By Harvey Randall published
News I'm going bananas.
![A billboard that reads: "WE LOVE YOU, WE MISS YOU, WE HATE MONEY" in LA, as captured by @stephentotilo on Twitter/X.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/z3QVHtTLBEp4s8x4D5zX2a-320-80.png)
'We love you. We miss you. We hate money': Ultrakill and Gloomwood publisher New Blood Interactive turns a billboard into a grave marker for fallen studios including Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin
By Harvey Randall published
News "Gone but not forgotten."
![An image of Krile, a lalafell in a kitty-cat hoodie, smiling confidently amongst verdant surroundings in Final Fantasy 14.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GKhUMJCjfiRrN7Mus2BzwW-320-80.png)
Yoshi-P says that the Final Fantasy 14 team is taking aim at the game's same-y combat jobs and 2-minute-meta, but that'll come after Dawntrail tackles its encounter design
By Harvey Randall published
News Forging ahead.
![An image of King Shark, a huge, sharklike humanoid, looking aghast in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5VTXzqmHin2AYeA5mCPeij-320-80.png)
Oof: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League lost Warner Bros. $200 million—which is $25 million more than the original 2016 movie cost to make
By Harvey Randall published
News Repeated zig-zags left developers, among other things, confused as to why "Captain Boomerang, known for fighting with his namesake weapon, would suddenly pivot to gunplay."
![Naoki Yoshida drinking red wine](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eQJ92VTsDoE8Ebh5CxwgTg-320-80.jpg)
Yoshi-P will turn Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail around if players keep asking for a raise spell on Pictomancer, jokes: 'it'd be best to remove raise from all of those jobs' if they don't behave
By Harvey Randall published
News Ease-of-use.
![A Helldivers 2 soldier in a dense jungle poses with two fingers outstretched. In their other hand balances a cool-looking throwing knife aimed at the enemies of liberty.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/J9pv3RZGSwBvjYbtv46mrU-320-80.png)
Helldivers 2 announces slower gear releases alongside its latest warbond, Viper Commandos—which brings the game's first vehicle skins (and a rad-looking throwing knife)
By Harvey Randall published
News Arrowhead says its slower cadence is meant to provide weapons with "stronger theming" and alternate rewards.
![Pikachu looking shocked.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TtvJPubi3qTSryiHXihEm-320-80.png)
Unofficial Pokémon fan event drags ill Make-A-Wish children in front of a crowd, suffers invasive camera crews, and is haunted by the Ravioli Man
By Harvey Randall published
News Not exactly the very best.
![An image of a citizen of Super Earth giving a PSA, holding his hands out in a calming manner while the word: INVASION is stamped in block-type over a screaming man crying for sweet liberty.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eicgzmSFSCutgbykJfr8pb-320-80.png)
New Helldivers 2 CEO says dev-player relationships are more 'doctor/patient', reveals that Arrowhead's taking a stethoscope to your Reddit posts and YouTube rants
By Harvey Randall published
News Diagnosis: Liberty.
![Xal'atath, the central villain of The War Within, holds the Dark Heart close to her chest and delivers a smirk that may slay even the mightiest champion.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZZg5hd7MvtsTbMrYyQWN2d-320-80.png)
World of Warcraft's latest The War Within trailer has players simping hard for big baddie Xal'atath—and I'm not exactly surprised
By Harvey Randall published
News New word unlocked: "motherplane".
![Symbolic photo: Logo of the video platform YouTube on June 07, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/voro3xQwSEHz4mKuR6FnP5-320-80.jpg)
A flood of reported privacy incidents from Google confirms, incidentally, that a Nintendo game leak from 2017 happened thanks to a YouTube contractor
By Harvey Randall published
News Yoshi? Oh no-shi.
![Two world-weary tactical mages stand outside of a police department they just tore through.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/25DRweTPFxg2oRdM36rpy4-320-80.png)
Tactical Breach Wizards, a turn-based strategy game about spec-ops casters with a habit of throwing people out of windows, has a free demo after years in the cauldron
By Harvey Randall published
News I cast Power Word: Gun at 9th level.
![Gale, a wizard from Baldur's Gate 3, looks very bloodied and very sad at the player while a celestial midnight blooms behind his depressed mug.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ABD3tAbKsFbkfHu8dGGseY-320-80.png)
D&D's Wizards of the Coast come under fire for AI (again) after advertising for a 'principal AI engineer', but insists 'our stance on AI hasn't changed' since videogames don't count
By Harvey Randall published
News The ol' loophole.
![The Dream Visitor from Baldur's Gate 3, a shadowed figure amidst a blue magical backdrop, reachies their hand out towards the viewer.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dQKgmwt6xjdpw86ngompyE-320-80.png)
Patch 7 of Baldur's Gate 3 heralds the arrival of mod support in September, with a closed beta starting next month
By Harvey Randall published
News Introducing "an officially sanctioned toolkit for giving Lae'zel a mullet."
![The Super Earth Spokesperson from Helldivers 2 looks nervously over his shoulder, while stood in front of a very democratic-looking "black hole" in Helldivers 2.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KdgvvYMUT7orwxdgvPq9Gm-320-80.png)
Helldivers 2 players save democracy by turning a planet into an ominous black hole that makes whale noises: Which is fine and normal and not a wormhole to the Illuminate, stop asking
By Harvey Randall published
News We did it, Patrick! We saved Liberty!