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

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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'

By Harvey Randall Published

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'

By Harvey Randall Published

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?'

By Harvey Randall Published

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'

By Harvey Randall Published

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

By Harvey Randall Published

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'

By Harvey Randall Published

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'

By Harvey Randall Published

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'

By Harvey Randall Published

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'

By Harvey Randall Published

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
A triple image, showing the protagonist of Onimusha: Way of the Sword in various states of battle.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword starts off slow, but stick with it: You'll be rewarded with some of the best action combat of the decade

By Harvey Randall Published

WORTH WAITING A slow gauntlet.

WORTH WAITING
A bag in Final Fantasy 14, as modelled on the back of a viera.
Confession time: Alright, come clean—how tidy are your bags in your MMOs?

By Harvey Randall Published

GET THAT BAG Mine? Mine are an utter mess.

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GET THAT BAG
Ravenloft image
D&D is getting a Netflix series about Strahd, involving the director of The Prisoner of Azkaban, and I honestly think this could work great

By Harvey Randall Published

News I've been hankering after a Curse of Strahd adaptation for a long time.

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Blood of Dawnwalker - Guard looking disgusted
The Blood of Dawnwalker's mods immediately scrap the time pressure mechanic, which is apparently a dealbreaker for some people

By Harvey Randall Published

News That didn't take much time.

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Shadowheart's eyes go white as she holds a glowing magic artifact
The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond

By Ted Litchfield Last updated

Kensai/Mage There are so many ways to play this game.

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Kensai/Mage
Tifa from Final Fantasy 7 Revelation looks determined at the camera.
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation gets a release date and a proper look at its airship overworld, which is cool, if in danger of inducing open world fatigue

By Harvey Randall Published

News The Remake trilogy's a long one.

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A catgirl from Final Fantasy 14 holds her crossbow bolt out to the camera - on her back is a visible crossbow.
New Final Fantasy 14 site update stabs the final pin into my conspiracy board, leaving me 99.9% sure I know what the new physical ranged job is

By Harvey Randall Published

News The bird is the word.

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