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
'Game has become mahjong': WoW Classic player installs over 3,600 addons in a bout of eldritch madness, somehow only needs to remove 20 to get it to 'work'
By Harvey Randall published
News I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has told me I may now drink.
Now D&D's 2024 rules revamp is almost finished, I've been visited by the ghosts of TTRPG past, present, and future to help me predict the next 5-10 years
By Harvey Randall published
PORTENT DICE A decade to come.
Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'
By Harvey Randall published
News "Look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe—you stop taking risks and people just tune it out."
AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an 'All Romances' run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever made
By Harvey Randall published
News A smashing start to the new year.
Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either
By Harvey Randall published
News "What it can't do is tell me a really compelling story … it gets extremely confused."
Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says the game's past balance woes were due to weapons being 'seen as game objects' and that 'balance doesn't matter'
By Harvey Randall published
News Que sera, sera, whatever guns are, will be.
G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase
By Harvey Randall published
News Eerily monologues. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.
PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'
By Harvey Randall published
News A billion, million worlds.
Not only did FF14's controversial chatter Wuk Lamat rank 1st for words spoken in Dawntrail, 'Wuk Lamat' was the most-used phrase by the characters in 2nd and 3rd place, too
By Harvey Randall published
News Whenever Wuk Lamat's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Wuk Lamat"?
2024 was still the year of Baldur's Gate 3: Why we're all still playing Larian's once-in-a-decade RPG 16 months later
By Harvey Randall published
REROLL Dice so nice you play it thrice.
Game of the Year 2024: Balatro
By Robin Valentine published
🏆 Hands down the best game of the year.
Best Multiplayer 2024: Helldivers 2
By Morgan Park published
🏆 Reinventing the live service game—for democracy.
Best Expansion 2024: Elden Ring – Shadow of the Erdtree
By Tyler Colp published
🏆 FromSoft does it again.
Best RPG 2024: Metaphor: ReFantazio
By Mollie Taylor published
🏆 Atlus graduates from high school and brings us its best JRPG yet.
Crashing servers, flame wars, and a 60-day path to redemption—the utterly chaotic first year of Helldivers 2 has been a democratic doozy
By Harvey Randall published
YEAR IN REVIEW BOMB The passion of liberty burns hot and cold.
I was skeptical of Supergiant making a sequel, but Hades 2 has more than earned its place in the roguelike pantheon, and it's not even finished yet
By Harvey Randall published
🏆 Death to Chronos.
Best Tactics 2024: Tactical Breach Wizards
By Harvey Randall published
🏆 Wizard casts defenestrate.
The Illuminate in Helldivers 2 appear to be inching closer to the black hole we left at Meridia back in June, which is also looking a lot scarier, but I'm sure it's probably fine, stop worrying about it
By Harvey Randall published
News I'm sure it's meant to be doing that.
Cyberpunk 2077 goes Santapunk with a cheeky holiday gift for the chooms, tucks the starter set 'Easy Mode' for the TTRPG Cyberpunk RED into your Steam files
By Harvey Randall published
News A little bonus content, as a treat.
WoW's Warband system is getting a facelift soon, with new campsite backgrounds and the ability to sort your alts into cute little themed groups
By Harvey Randall published
News Getting the bands all together.
Arrowhead Games' heart grows three sizes as it swerves away from its controversial crossover plans for Helldivers 2's Killzone collab, offers the second half for free
By Harvey Randall published
News Santa dove early this year.
League of Legends hit by SAG-AFTRA union action as Riot delays English VO to 'respect the ongoing strike' over AI, though voice actors think it could be doing more to help
By Harvey Randall published
News "No studio wants to lose a major client like Riot."
Hi-Fi Rush devs brim with optimism after their near-closure experience, say they're building a place 'where people feel like the work is their baby, not just some task to be done'
By Harvey Randall published
News Practicing their Kraft(on).
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