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

WoW Forever trailer image of blue elf lady with gold eyes
World of Warcraft: Forever's beta is a laggy hell for some EU players (and yours truly), but there is a workaround

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News Something's going on.

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Raph Koster speaking at GDC 2017
Industry vet who worked on Ultima Online says the next big thing needs to have 'sh*tty graphics' to escape the doom of rising development costs

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News "What used to be a single 128x128 texture is now multiple 4K textures."

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Various screenshots from the Crucible of the Unbroken, showing the map screen, menu, and enemies.
FF14's new roguelike mode's leaderboards were accidentally encouraging players to min-max all the fun out of it, so it'll be 'postponing the start of Crucible Rankings'

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News Looks like changes are in the Crucible of the Unbroken's future.

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An undead paladin in WoW Forever, wreathed in holy light.
WoW Forever dataminers have dug up set bonuses, which are interesting even on low-level gear

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News Armor up!

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WoW Forever screenshot
Bad news for shaman tank hopefuls—World of Warcraft: Forever won't have Season of Discovery's zany class design just yet: 'But never say never, y'know'

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News Forever, not never.

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The Witcher 3 next gen update release times - Ciri and Geralt sitting
The Witcher 3 producer says it's scary to work with another studio on the game's expansion: 'I also think twice about leaving my baby with someone'

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News But, "there are people over there who are not me who take the best care ever of them."

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The protagonist of Warlock stands confidently in her regal attire.
Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons won't have waypoints, so that players can figure things out without 'blindly trusting' a UI

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News "You lose that feeling of curiosity because you're like, well, why even bother?"

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The Witcher 3's story director says an ideal quest is 'constructed in such a way that the player puts the controller away, stands up, and starts walking'

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News "Then [the player] goes back, and then the player picks one of the choices."

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Sargeras, the Dark Titan, stabs his blade into Azeroth.
Blizzard finally told players where the big sword in WoW went after 8 years, and I'm just bummed out a reveal this cool was in an interview somewhere

By Harvey Randall Published

News Showing your hand.

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Cover art from the D&D 2024 Player's Handbook.
Admitting the OGL fiasco was a 'rug pull', D&D head says 'bluntly, we're recovering from a lot of missteps—very loud, very public missteps'

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News "We're not going to fix it in one year."

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An undead paladin in World of Warcraft: Forever, running through the plaugelands.
World of Warcraft: Forever will get a hardcore mode by winter, say devs—which'll be interesting, given all the new and undiscovered ways to die

By Harvey Randall Published

News Perma-death.

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A split image: Left, showing new talent trees in WoW Forever. Right, showing the announcement key art, with several heroes standing atop a cliff.
Talent calculators have already been assembled for World of Warcraft: Forever, and there's some real interesting stuff in here

By Harvey Randall Published

News Azeroth's got talents.

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A screenshot of WoW Forever. A group of heroes fight a glowing enemy in an elven city.
World of Warcraft: Forever devs say a direct sequel like Guild Wars 2 is unlikely: 'Why would you throw that away and start over?'

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News "We keep making it better."

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A beastmaster stands, ready, with their opo-opo companion in Final Fantasy 14.
Final Fantasy 14's funky new roguelike mode has me hyped for Evercold's combat revamp, which'll be a winner if it's even half as weird

By Harvey Randall Published

BEAST MODE Who let the dogs out?

BEAST MODE
A space pirate captain smirks knowingly in Starfinder: Afterlight.
Starfinder: Afterlight, a CRPG based on one of my favourite systems that pulled in almost $1 million on Kickstarter, is starting to look ship-shape

By Harvey Randall Published

STAR SHOT Plus, BG3's Neil Newbon voices an insect priest.

STAR SHOT
Hideo Kojima directing a mocap session.
Sony reportedly dropped Hideo Kojima's next game because it kept missing deadlines, was over budget, and would eventually come to other platforms

By Harvey Randall Published

News A few good reasons, and one really exhausting one.

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation - Cid Highwind holding his chin thinking
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director defends its physical disk still needing a download: 'We didn't want to make any compromises for the game'

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News Hamaguchi says the "fidelity and the quality of the game" would be lesser with a Rebirth-sized disc.

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World of Warcraft negotiate over a diplomatic table, as part of official art for the WoW x D&D crossover.
Blizzard must now 'discuss, evaluate, and bargain' its AI usage with its developers

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News "When we fight together, we win together."

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Concept art for Ahn'Qiraj's Prophet Skeram boss, an intimidating, robed insectoid surrounded by a swarm of foul bugs.
20 years later, veteran WoW director says players outsmarted him completely in Ahn'Qiraj: 'All that work, and there was still an instant tell'

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News You better Skeram, kiddo.

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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii screenshot
Turns out, a lot of Sega's biggest fans don't play its videogames: 'In some cases, their engagement is even higher than that of fans who actually play'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Nah-kuza.

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A split image showing Asha Sharma, CEO of Xbox at Microsoft, and Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine.
'No-one puts Double Fine out of business except me', says Tim Schafer on taking Double Fine independent: 'Asha's not going to shoot my dog'

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News "The games industry is full of terrible things, and I can't change most of them."

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An image of Todd Howard in the middle of explaining a concept using hand gestures.
Skyrim co-lead says Bethesda making Starfield instead of TES6 came out of nowhere: 'It was very much: Guess what, team? We're making this space game'

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News "It wasn't like Starfield was this big internal like, 'Hey, we all want to make this space game, Todd.'"

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Life is Strange Remastered screenshot
Don't Nod might not have enough cash to make it through January 2027, and even if it does, pulling up could 'involve the reduction of up to 90 positions'

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News "Amid systemic pressures in the video game industry."

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation - A close-up of Cloud looking at the camera
Square Enix wants Final Fantasy 7 to be an 'IP with an ever-evolving future', which is strange to say about a franchise that's already ever-evolving

By Harvey Randall Published

News But hey, everyone loves Cloud, so.

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Onimusha: Way of the Sword proves the parry formula is far from stale, you just need to get freaky with it

By Harvey Randall Published

STILL TIMELY Parry fatigue? Not me.

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STILL TIMELY
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