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
![Several alien symbols make up the cover of City of Six Moons.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sqgLzBeGFTrB2U25iVx2j-320-80.png)
'The designer will never answer any rules questions': Upcoming solitaire board game requires you to codebreak its rulebook, which is written in a language that does not exist
By Harvey Randall published
News And you thought learning a TTRPG was complicated.
![A tarnished kneels before a glowing holy symbol in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iDvhQcvNXokUuWPMDwNGLd-320-80.png)
FromSoftware drops another story trailer for Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC—giving us a glimpse at the fiery rampage that made Malenia's golden boy flee the Lands Between
By Harvey Randall published
News Everything's on fire, this is fine.
![An image of a Pandaren holding jade lightning in Mists of Pandaria: Remix.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HbTTZa4sxmPugVhkyggzeW-320-80.png)
The hunt for the perfect grinding spots in Mists of Pandaria: Remix show us just how incompatible the event's silly fun is with WoW's grindset culture
By Harvey Randall published
JADE WITH ENVY Leapfrogged ahead of the competition.
![A modded screenshot of Boba Fett from Star Wars gunning down rebels in Starfield.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cDgVPUrf5EZikW6ooBqwqe-320-80.png)
Starfield player jury-rigs 100+ Star Wars mods together to make a convincing Boba Fett simulator: 'I basically added every single Star Wars mod out there on Nexus'
By Harvey Randall published
News A field of Star Wars.
![An image displaying the new Larian Studios studio in Warsaw.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uevuaxy5tyywnnaNueMaeN-320-80.png)
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios opens new doors in Warsaw to help share the load of not 1, but 2 'very ambitious RPGs' in development
By Harvey Randall published
News My excitement is immeasurable.
![A trio of adventurers in Baldur's Gate 3 stand on all fours like a pack of wild dogs.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WkFxdBHxKxEv4aGFnhemyG-320-80.png)
Here's a Baldur's Gate 3 mod that lets your party scrabble around on 4 legs like a plague of sleep paralysis demons, if you're into that sort of thing
By Harvey Randall published
News Concerning.
![Tesla 2021 Model S interior](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UEKVTCJeKSZHgP9ZRaW4rn-320-80.jpg)
Bummer: Tesla's 'gaming computer' that it built a car around for some reason will be 'no longer capable of playing Steam games'
By Harvey Randall published
News "They probably realised it's a car."
![A samurai from Ghost of Tsushima wields their blade, garbed in fearsome armour.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X8F6stVTDdBM83c698bXZQ-320-80.png)
Ghost of Tsushima's PC port once again proves that PlayStation should do this sort of thing sooner, as player counts soar past every major Sony PC release (except Helldivers 2)
By Harvey Randall published
News Glorious Nippon appeal, concurrently played over 77,000 times.
![A healer looks mournfully towards the camera, hand outstretched, as she topples into the bowels of the Tam-Tara Deepcroft in Final Fantasy 14.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Pw58449AHyKPiUKqn7WxNE-320-80.png)
Healers in FF14 get that awful sinking feeling as Yoshi-P cheerily announces a major buff to an ability mainly used for resurrection
By Harvey Randall published
News Why do I hear boss music?
![Animal Well](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XxKTxrU65FzyyGSVK5cHxX-320-80.jpg)
Animal Well's solo dev casually reveals that the breakout metroidvania left 'at least twice as many rooms that are in the game' on the cutting room floor
By Harvey Randall published
News Iterate, then obliterate.
![Deathwing roars with his wings spread over the smouldering ruins of Stormwind, in the WoW: Cataclysm Classic trailer.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gnDqiLo9KKkgybvrwoa3Q3-320-80.png)
'We knew that was a pain point … why make that mistake again?' World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic devs talk tinkering with the game's first divisive expansion
By Harvey Randall published
News If it's a little broke, think about fixing it.
![QTCinderella, a Twitch streamer, holds up a batch of cookies she made in under 4 minutes.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EUtfkiYfrFFP63ZV7qyhHM-320-80.png)
'They are afraid of me': Mastermind speedrunner bends the rules of a meme contest and bakes 12 actual cookies in under 4 minutes, forces site mods to make a whole new category
By Harvey Randall published
News Cookie quicker.
![Knight holding a sword and standing in front of a red flag](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/a6xK989wWEbPDqPdD2C6wZ-320-80.png)
Hear ye, hear ye, Manor Lords has sold over 2 million copies—which is about 25 times the population of England's biggest city in the Middle Ages
By Harvey Randall published
News Lot of people fitting in that manor.
![Ubisoft Neo NPC screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yUtyVVm77CNFowcNbkMnN9-320-80.jpg)
Ubisoft insists yet again that its uncanny AI-generated 'NEO-NPCs' will make games 'more alive and richer', whatever that means
By Harvey Randall published
News Are you feeling immersed yet?
![Helldivers 2 two characters hugging as an explosion detonates in the background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iVYubwwtivmQtTgj2bLUHn-320-80.png)
Helldivers 2 community rallies behind wholesome hero after a remorseful villain kicks them, giving rise to Super Earth's new battlecry: 'im frend'
By Harvey Randall published
News For prosperity. For liberty. For democracy. For frend.
![Thunder Goober invites your player character to a tea party in the Athenian Rhapsody demo.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/G7sUncL7LHYtjSmGosiujK-320-80.png)
This 'souls-like platonic dating simulator' is (not so) secretly an Undertale-adjacent RPG with zero restraint, and I need a lie down after trying it
By Harvey Randall published
News I want to get off Thunder Goober's wild ride.
![Adventurers from D&D's revised ruleset Player's Handbook do battle with kobolds, swords drawn, spells flying, dungeons? Dragon'd.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/neigNTpGV7TYP4LLrJuq9A-320-80.png)
D&D reveals the cover art of its revised 2024 Player Handbook—a sweet reminder that not all dragons are trying to eat your face, plus some deep-cut callbacks
By Harvey Randall published
News Glimmering gold.
![Midnight Suns protagonist](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WDnPrZ3hPZsqYvKZYQ7D4H-320-80.jpg)
The devs of the underplayed Marvel's Midnight Suns once more blame the game's commercial woes on the cards (I really don't think it was the cards)
By Harvey Randall published
News Cardly the problem, here.
![A helldiver stands, patriotic in front of a Super Earth flag, while holding a helmet in Helldivers 2.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Fo5jxQn3ETHrANqTVsyD9-320-80.png)
Helldivers 2 dev says patrol spawn rates are busted and that Arrowhead's walking its changes back, but 'we want to give it proper testing' to 'see that it works this time'
By Harvey Randall published
News Slow and steady wins the war.
![Several adventurers from Valheim gather in an accursed locale in the Ashlands, with one wounded viking being tended to by his compatriot amidst the smoke and ash.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sZgdvG8QHZPNSgo5pLYtv3-320-80.png)
Valheim's fiery Ashlands update leaps from public test to live servers, adding a new biome, over 30 new weapons, and lots of new and inventive ways to burn to death
By Harvey Randall published
News The weather here's nice and warm, but there are also the horrors.
![Several adventurers from Final Fantasy 14's upcoming TTRPG gather in a tavern to prep for their next adventure.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GFKEv8G3WHpgfUAmBUQskg-320-80.png)
Final Fantasy 14's spin on D&D has proven so popular it's already sold out before a single die has been rolled, though a second wave of reprints is on its way
By Harvey Randall published
News Limit: Broken. Stock: Depleted. Catboy lovers: In shambles.
![Melinoe, a young princess of the underworld, stares determined towards the screen with a resolved expression to slay Chronos.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tyAKKjeeyhzbETFsXM4HJ6-320-80.png)
Hades 2 will be getting the first of many patches later this month, as Supergiant starts brewing quality-of-life changes to resource gathering and movement in its cauldron
By Harvey Randall published
Dash, dash, dash.
![Evil Empire's mascot sits in a flaming office as per a parody of KC Green's famous "This is Fine" comic.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JtoqjSbPUDzyBAaM3ZvzMM-320-80.png)
'If Silksong shadow drops … I'm burning the whole thing down': Dead Cells devs announce second release date and gameplay trailer for upcoming roguelike, after Hades 2 shattered original plans
By Harvey Randall published
News Surely lightning won't strike twice.