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

David from Cyberpunk Edgerunners has a 1,000-yard stare.
I wasn't convinced Cyberpunk: Edgerunners could have a sadder ending until I read its writer's other pitches—and boy did we get off easy

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News Counting my cyber-blessings.

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A split image. Left: A character from concord looks grimly determined. Right: A character from Destiny 2 carries another into a bright, burning light.
Sony games boss says company will bravely keep sending live services over the top, despite cancelling 8 of the 12 ones planned for 2025 and wiping out most of Destiny 2's developers

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News "The genre itself is relatively new."

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A pandaren standing in the Mythic+ portal for World of Warcraft, with the Terminally Online logo imposed over it.
Discussion time: Most big MMOs are seasonal now—do you prefer it that way, or do you loathe the FOMO checklist?

By Harvey Randall Published

WELL SEASONED 'Tis the season.

WELL SEASONED
A split image showing the art from the Vampire: The Masquerade crossover and Strahd from D&D.
Vampire: The Masquerade's D&D crossover is a condescending cave-in to people who are afraid of trying something new

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BLOOD DRAINED The d10s can't hurt you, I swear.

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BLOOD DRAINED
Art of the Corrupt Court Official card from Magic: The Gathering, illustrated by Drew Baker.
D&D and Magic owner Hasbro is reportedly trying to get child actors from Peppa Pig to sign away their voices to AI

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News This doesn't bode too well for Hasbro's videogames, either.

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Two criminals waiting in a glossy club in Grand Theft Auto 6.
GTA 6's preorders mark the start of a long wait for it to come to PC, despite the fact we'll likely make up '50% of the sales'

By Harvey Randall Published

LEFT OUT What are we, chopped liver?

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LEFT OUT
Key art of Path of Exile expansion Keepers of the Flame. A character wearing a red hood and ornate armor holds a bright purple flame in their hand.
Path of Exile co-creator used to think 'live service was entirely upside, in all cases', but 10 years of experience and games like Baldur's Gate 3 have shown him another way

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News "This is a far more nuanced field than I thought it was 10 years ago."

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Andrew Wilson, chief executive officer of Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), speaks during the company's EA Play event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. EA announced that it is introducing a higher-end version of its subscription game-playing service that will include new titles such as Battlefield V and the Madden NFL 19 football game
The grim industry summer continues as EA lays off staff ahead of $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia, likely to soothe the sting of its $20 billion debt

By Harvey Randall Published

News The layoffs will continue until… well, something improves.

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Art of a Hunter character walking away from the camera, holding a dead Cayde-6.
Warframe dev says 'no one is celebrating' Destiny 2 winding down: 'A game is healthy when you have competitors'

By Harvey Randall Published

News We all lift together.

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Travis Willingham reassures the cast that he has a backup character in Critical Role's Cooldown.
I had my doubts about Critical Role's new 13-player D&D campaign, but its latest episodes have me fully bought into its grand, ambitious promise

By Harvey Randall Published

HIGH ROLLERS Three parties, one city, high stakes.

HIGH ROLLERS
Guild Wars screenshot
Guild Wars' devs tried to escape the MMO branding in 2005, citing all the things that would become genre staples 20 years later

By Harvey Randall Published

News If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

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Illidan, a blindfolded demon hunter, snarls with the Terminally Online logo superimposed over his face.
WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out

By Harvey Randall Published

NO CHILDREN Private servers are a symptom, not the disease.

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NO CHILDREN
Left: An underwater lair entrance. Right: The resident of that lair, a three-tailed naga.
WoW's quest to add variable difficulty to just about everything continues in Midnight patch 12.1's Mythic world bosses, though there's a catch

By Harvey Randall Published

News Straight lair lurkin'.

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Left: Neow, a giant whale in Slay the SPire 2. Right: The Aeonglass, an ominous hourglass and Act 3 boss.
Slay the Spire 2 patch fixes RNG bug after a fan's '8 hour descent into madness' proves it exists—alongside heaps of other updates and a new Act 3 boss

By Harvey Randall Published

News "Rest assured that your suffering is now truly random!"

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Gabe Newell in an Oceanco ad
Gabe Newell buys $70.8 million mansion in Florida, and naturally it has a dock for his superyachts and a personal tunnel to the ocean

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News How he does like to be beside the seaside.

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The 14-strong cast for Critical Role assembled in a large group shot.
D&D-inspired Critical Role's homegrown videogame is coming along well, says Laura Bailey: 'There's a lot of work being done'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Downtime activity.

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The Warrior of Light stares in amazement at a cool shibe mount.
Final Fantasy 14 will give players in Japan a dog for paying their taxes

By Harvey Randall Published

News Trade offer: I receive financed infrastructure. You receive: A dog.

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An orc steams with rage in Don't Kill Them All.
Don't Kill Them All make you keep orc calm so orc not smash resources—big smart, neat game, like demo much

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News Me can be different kind of orc.

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An Xbox logo, superimposed on a picture of Senua from Hellblade.
It just keeps getting worse—Microsoft reportedly already had Ninja Theory in its crosshairs while pushing the announcement trailer for its next game

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News "Microsoft had already planned to sunset or split with the studio."

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Left: A maiden in Mistfall Hunter smiles with a raven perched upon her shoulder. Right: A hero in Mistfall Hunter ascends into a golden light.
Mistfall Hunter's demo might finally convince me, a souls sicko, to give extraction games a proper go—even if it's more modern God of War than Nightreign

By Harvey Randall Published

News Kratos, is that you?

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Commander Zavala in Destiny 2
Destiny 2 comes full circle as players honour the tradition of pushing bosses to their deaths—this time by becoming a porcupine and smacking them with a void football

By Harvey Randall Published

News No, really.

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G-Man
Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything: 'Instead of punishing children, the government needs to target the source'

By Fraser Brown Published

No quick fixes PC Gamer's writers and editors tackle the impending ban on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.

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No quick fixes
Left: Hi-Fi Rush's protagonist lies dead-eyed and slumped against a counter. Right: Satya Nadella laughing at the Microsoft 50th Anniversary Copilot event.
As Xbox eyes layoffs, Microsoft's CEO says its videogames aren't monetised enough—so it's not the cancelled games or $68.7 billion deals or AI overspending, then

By Harvey Randall Published

News Watch that line go up, up up up up up.

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Left: A sweaty, distraught cloud from FF7. Right: A smug, happy Balthier from FF12.
Both Final Fantasy 7 remakes are dirt cheap right now in a franchise sale—but I think you should play FF12 and enjoy the series' best combat system at a discount, too

By Harvey Randall Published

News Gambits, my beloved.

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A vicious dragon looms in Dragon's Dogma 2, a wicked smile on its fanged maw.
2 entire years after being raked over the coals for it, Dragon's Dogma 2 is removing a bunch of those silly little microtransactions that weren't even P2W anyway

By Harvey Randall Published

News Was it worth it? No.

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