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

An echo in Archeron, a dread warrior dressed in cold undying plate, stalks towards the camera in a mist-drowned environment.
Arkheron, an isometric Diablo-like battle royale where you ascend a tower, is getting a more forgiving Spire mode to prepare you for the big leagues

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News Arkheron playtests have been paying dividends.

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The protagonist of Cassette Beasts poses victoriously with her Cassette player, surrounded by dynamic critters.
Cassette Beasts 2002 is a GBA-style monster collection game where you can splice critters together with the power of music

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News Groovy.

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Key art for Abiotic Factor's In Tropic Break DLC
Abiotic Factor's going on holiday with a new DLC, Entropic Break—just ignore the flesh dimension, I'm sure it's fine

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news Let's go to the beach, screech.

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Two characters have a conversation in the Arcantina of World of Warcraft.
Question time: How often do you actually talk to strangers in MMOs?

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HELLO SOLO Solo or hello?

HELLO SOLO
Left: "Man holding pizza slice - stock photo, Pepperoni pizza slice." Right: Faye, from God of War: Laufey, looks with dread towards a slice of pizza.
Dominos Pizza UK has joined the gamer culture slapfight over God of War: Laufey, and I'd really like to just skip this part, please

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News Not the way I wanted to round out my week.

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An army does battle in Tabletop Tavern, a RTS roguelike.
I made treants awkwardly rub shoulders with ringwraiths in the Total War-style RTS roguelike Tabletop Tavern, and I'm surprised as anybody that it worked

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News It takes all sorts.

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Left: The Seat of Sacrifice boss, Elidibus, stares with resentment at the viewer. Right: RathGame's player avatar, Solo Only, meets that gaze with determination.
Final Fantasy 14's solo only challenge runner overcomes impossible odds again, this time by blowing himself up

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News Blue Mage to the rescue.

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Rayman stands, looking a little bemused in Rayman Legends Retold.
The Rayman Legends remake has brought on Banjo Kazooie and DK64 composer Grant Kirkhope, who can apparently spin up gold in a day: 'He's super fast'

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News "He comes in one day later with something unbelievable."

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Rayman Legends' graphics compared to Rayman Legends Retold.
I played 3 hours of the Rayman Legends 3D remake—and while I miss the 2D artstyle, boy is it still pretty

By Harvey Randall Published

HEY MAN, RAYMAN Rayman Legends Retold will have some new features, too.

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HEY MAN, RAYMAN
Subnautica 2 - Woman riding in a Tadpole
Subnautica 2's no-killing policy isn't because it's 'a game about pacifism', says design lead, but because players would 'master the crappy combat' over anything else

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News "They'll be mad at you, and they'll sit there and take time to learn it."

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Mark Darrah
Former BioWare producer says we could be saved from a world where there's 'no AAA games that aren't live services' by looking to movies

By Harvey Randall Published

News Hello, Hollywood.

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Illidan Stormrage from World of Warcraft looks, glowing eyes full of resentment, at the viewer.
After being shut down by Blizzard, one of WoW's biggest private servers is saying screw it, we'll make our own MMO

By Harvey Randall Published

News TurtleWoW's coming out of its shell.

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A triple-split header image in which three different MMOs are displayed, with PC Gamer's Terminally Online overlay imposed on top of them.
A toast to the wild west weirdos of the MMO goldrush—from the game that unleashed pandora's lootbox, to a deeply strange mess based off a 1996 science fiction novel

By Harvey Randall Published

ODD ONES Trendsetting freaks of 2005-2015, I salute thee.

ODD ONES
Cayde from Destiny 2 in a beat-up state.
One of the ideas pitched to save Destiny 2 was reportedly a 'Destiny Infinity' relaunch and a return to the annual expansion model

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News Things could've been different—but enough to save it? Who knows.

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Left: The main character from MindsEyE closes his eyes in a wince. Right: Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, via Bloomberg.
Take-Two CEO says 'former Rockstar employees' have tried to match GTA's success and 'haven't been able to'—and while he doesn't name names, that's gotta sting for a certain someone

By Harvey Randall Published

News MindsEye given the side-eye.

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Leon and Grace Ashcroft in Resident Evil Requiem.
Resident Evil Requiem has a demo now, despite the fact it came out 3 months ago and sold over 7 million copies

By Harvey Randall Published

News Giving a little Grace.

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Deadlock characters
Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve's still experimenting

By Harvey Randall Published

News Oops, all urns.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 08: CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software Strauss Zelnick attends Paley International Council Summit at Paley Museum on November 08, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)
No, says Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, of course Red Dead Online isn't a missed opportunity, the game sold 85 million copies

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News "Red Dead Online has been immensely successful and long lasting."

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A split image of splash art for City of Heroes, showing a team of supers flying heroically towards the camera, and a determined-looking Star Trek officer in space.
MMOs don't need 'to be 200 hours of unique content' at launch, says industry vet

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News "There's probably a reason why EA never wanted to hire me."

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An image of Jack Emmert from Cryptic Studios, edited over a picture of Stormwind from World of Warcraft.
'People want MMOs', says veteran designer Jack Emmert, it's the publishers chasing WoW-level scope that are the problem

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News "You see games that are basically features without any soul."

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A smiling Sphene from Final Fantasy 14 wears a content, beaming expression, with the PC Gamer's Terminally Online column art overlaid on top of it.
PC Gamer's MMO readers are, according to you, fashion-forward healers who like your keybinds, and I couldn't be more proud

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ROUND-UP MMO to the polls.

ROUND-UP
Art of the Corrupt Court Official card from Magic: The Gathering, illustrated by Drew Baker.
3 years on from laying off over 1,000 people, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are sending daily emails and physical letters encouraging the survivors to not unionise

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News Hey, at least the Pinkertons aren't involved yet.

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Dune: Awakening worm tooth - Swallowed by a Sandworm
Dune: Awakening has decided it's 'not an MMO' anymore

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News Just a very complicated survival game.

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A mouse prepares to fight an Owl in Mouseward, a soulslike by Finite Reflection Studios.
Mouseward is an adorably gloomy soulslike where you play an itty bitty undead mouse collecting stars, and it has a demo out now

By Harvey Randall Published

News Grave tidings.

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New York assemblyman and Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani over a backdrop screenshot from SimCity 3000.
It's the year 2026, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will be streaming regularly on Twitch starting today

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News Does this come under "just chatting?"

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