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

Asha Sharma in Microsoft's Unlocking the AI Revolution showcase: "Join us for this insightful interview with Asha Sharma where she will outline the forward direction for AI products, focusing on how they can assist administrators and IT professionals in managing costs and enhancing their operations. Asha will also highlight exciting use cases and real-world applications of AI that have emerged over the past year and a half."
Hundreds of layoffs and many cancelled projects later, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reportedly says 'we will not survive' without new IPs

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News Having one's cake and eating it too is meant to be a metaphor.

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Glen Schofield stands in a large field
Dead Space creator says he was 'forced to ship' The Callisto Protocol by Krafton: 'We had f*cking Covid'

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News Kraftoff.

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Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown - A young woman holding up a parchment
Pearl Abyss goes easy on us critics for our Crimson Desert reviews: 'They had to play the build that is not the exact same version of the launched game'

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News "I don't think critics had a fair chance to explore."

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Biddy Blas looking bashful in Star Wars: Galactic Racer.
'The algorithm continues to properly prioritise Mister Biddy Blas'—Star Wars: Galactic Racer has created the perfect creature

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News Glup would be proud.

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An image of the middle lane in Deadlock, a bright, neon 1950s representation of Times Square.
Deadlock's City Never Sleeps update makes Valve's MOBA my favorite videogame setting in years

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APPLE OF MY EYE I wanna be a part of it, New York, New York.

APPLE OF MY EYE
A flipped image of the dwarf in World of Warcraft: Forever's cinematic trailer, smelling a flower.
WoW: Forever, by casting off modern convenience, has horseshoed back around to being casual friendly again

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REROLL No Season-ing.

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REROLL
A screenshot of the World of Warcraft: Forever beta. A pair of Orcs in the Crossroads rest on the dry ground.
WoW: Forever dev says 'there's a real longing for that slower, more deliberate pace' in MMOs: 'A deliberate pushback on this go go go nature'

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News "It could be something with the times that we live in."

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A screenshot of WoW Forever. A group of heroes fight a glowing enemy in an elven city.
WoW: Forever's list of changes snowballed as Blizzard got more excited, says dev: 'Our original pitch internally was: We'll do 4 new dungeons'

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News "There is a version of WoW Forever that really is that version of Vanilla with just a couple slight class changes."

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The protagonist of At Fate's End, with a glowing necklace.
Spiritfarer dev's next game, At Fate's End, is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen

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News Simply gorgeous.

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A triple image showing three WoW characters and their players.
We tried to earn as much gold in WoW: Forever as we could in 2 hours—which involved a mugging, slander, and at least one crashout

By Harvey Randall, Joshua Wolens, Fraser Brown Published

TIME IS MONEY Wisdom, charisma, and courage.

TIME IS MONEY
The cast of Critical Role take a moment, filled with stress.
Critical Role's latest D&D episode was so stressful, I discovered a new noise my mouth can make

By Harvey Randall Published

News Working names: A lell. A laull? I'll workshop it.

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You can zip around WoW: Forever in this nifty map viewer

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World of Warcraft
A roegadyn woman hugs Urianger in Final Fantasy 14, with the Terminally Online (PC Gamer's MMO column) logo placed atop it.
Has your life ever been changed by someone you met in an MMO?

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DISCUSSION TIME Raise a glass to your digital ride-or-dies.

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DISCUSSION TIME
A crying orc in World of Warcraft: Forever.
The WoW: Forever beta's nerf to dungeon XP isn't nearly as bad as it seems

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News The danger of skimming patch notes.

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Yasuo from 2XKO
Riot needed absurd player counts 'in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions' for 2XKO, dooming it from launch

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News The cost is too dang high.

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Sam Riegel, a player in Critical Role, looks very concerned.
After a series of catastrophes where no-one could seem to roll well, I truly have no idea who's going to make it out of Critical Role's next episode

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News I am on the edge of my seat.

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Vintage Firearms Mod for Baldur's Gate 3
I am here to save us all time by determining which of our most-played videogames would be more efficiently completed if you had a gun

By Harvey Randall Published

BANG BANG Astarion probably shouldn't have a glock.

BANG BANG
Final Fantasy 11
Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG… oh, Final Fantasy 11, that's new

By Harvey Randall Published

News The FF11 trial follows in the FF14 trial's footsteps.

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Which Deadlock hero are you voting for first?

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MOBA
Deadlock characters
You're hyped for Deadlock's new heroes and map updates, I'm hyped because of the 800 extra pre-match conversations, we are not the same

By Harvey Randall Published

News My hunger for a non-MOBA Deadlock continues.

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A frog named Touch Me

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Final Fantasy
Touch Me, the frog from Final Fantasy 7, rendered up close.
The best frog in all of gaming, Touch Me, is now appreciable in all its glory thanks to a FF7 model viewer

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News My sweet sweet boy.

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This neat WoW AddOn lets you jot down notes about kind strangers

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World of Warcraft
Three screenshots of World of Warcraft: Retail, Classic, and Forever.
Stop trying to make a console war out of which WoW is better, you're all exhausting

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WAR TORN We should not be this kind of orc.

WAR TORN
An image of the WoW: Forever beta, where dozens upon dozens of new characters flood the starting zone.
I'm sure whoever chose to charge for WoW: Forever beta access is feeling very chuffed, given Blizzard's had to expand its server size a second time

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News Zug rush.

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