
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

'AH can we please keep them': Helldivers 2 players have fully imprinted onto the game's new SEAF troops like they're a bunch of kittens up for adoption
By Harvey Randall published
News They're just little guys. They're just little guys with semi-automatic weapons.

Doug Cockle wasn't the 'obvious' choice for Geralt in The Witcher—but he kept winning out because he was 'the best at being normal'
By Harvey Randall published
News "There were some who would have preferred him to have sort of a Texan accent."

'You guys are not Bethesda': During development, The Witcher 3 devs were told by a Walmart rep 'I like you guys, but it's just not gonna happen'
By Harvey Randall published
News "I made a bet with him … he still kinda owes me that dinner."

In my first hour with Helldivers 2's new city maps, I've caused millions in property damage, been to several Illuminate raves, and committed treason in the fog of war
By Harvey Randall published
SUPER EARTH'S OKAY-EST I wouldn't have it any other way.

Helldivers 2's new update Heart of Democracy finally adds urban city maps, SEAF redshirts to make you look cool, giant Illuminate sky worms, and civilians to protect from friendly fire
By Harvey Randall published
News Training manual tip: Friendly fire isn't.

WoW's latest patch fumbled the landing, but it looks like it'll get its future player housing feature exactly right—with complete kitbashing freedom
By Harvey Randall published
News House, hearth, and home.

Wizkids offers full refunds for nightmarish Baldur's Gate 3 miniatures, as they 'did not meet our expectations or that of our Wizards of the Coast partner'
By Harvey Randall published
News That's putting it lightly.

Take-Two CEO gets all philosophical yet again about GTA 6, says its delay is to his team's 'search for perfection'
By Harvey Randall published
News Zelnick's hunt for the platonic ideal of a videogame continues.

After Helldivers 2, Arrowhead's next game will be '100% funded by ourselves', though CEO Shams Jorjani says there's no hard feelings over Sony's boneheaded PSN shenanigans
By Harvey Randall published
News "There would be no Helldivers if it wasn't for them."

Turns out, Super Mario 64 can trap you in a menu for 2.25 years—as long as you wait that long beforehand: 'This is a fair punishment'
By Harvey Randall published
News Star-ting to run out of patience.

The Assassin's Creed Shadows delay worked out so well for Ubisoft its CEO decided, hey, let's do a couple more for the road—and save 100 million more euros while we're at it
By Harvey Randall published
News "We have decided to provide additional development time to some of our biggest productions."

The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no
By Harvey Randall published
News Maybe the mind flayer tadpoles finally got to 'em.

Morrowind modders continue to astound, add object physics with 'pure lua' to a 23-year old game
By Harvey Randall published
News Magic, as far as I'm concerned.

After saying negative reviews 'might just cause our death' and 'we've got a few months left in the oven', No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in 'immediate financial danger', actually
By Harvey Randall published
News It was all some kind of conspiracy.

Don't swap out your pants just yet, Helldivers 2 might be getting another update next week to coincide with the battle for Super Earth
By Harvey Randall published
News Arrowhead's got more surprises in its quiver.

Google's logo has changed, and if the past's any indication, this might be the most expensive gaussian blur in history
By Harvey Randall published
News Logo redesigns can be costly, and for a company the size of Google? The mind boggles.

Forget the Tarrasque—tabletop's biggest bad is now the biblically accurate Bristle Boar, a horrifying Pathfinder 2e monster that only exists because of a typo
By Harvey Randall published
News "Assuming there are about 50 million Pathfinder players, one boar should be able to easily bring every character that has ever existed up to level 20."

A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer from 5 years ago resurfaced, and it's a delightfully bare-bones look at the primordial soup that spawned the full game
By Harvey Randall published
News The project was once called "We Lost", and it looked… interesting.

Super Earth is under attack, and Helldivers 2's tro-browning update is finally here—with weapon customisation, new Illuminate troops, and an inevitable battle on democracy's home turf
By Harvey Randall published
News The Illuminate's coming for Super Earth, and it sure isn't messing around.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'
By Harvey Randall published
News "We couldn't beat him."

WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere
By Harvey Randall published
News I'm comin' up with 32.33 (repeating of course) percentage of feeling your age.

Ouch—Warner Bros throws Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League under the bus in the most corporate way possible, side-eyes it for closed studios and cancelled games
By Harvey Randall published
News "Prior year quarter impairment" is some potent corpo-speak.

The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
By Ted Litchfield last updated
Kensai/Mage Why stick with just one class when you could have, like, four?
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