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
Let's pour one out for these no-shows we were desperate to see during Summer Game Fest
By Kara Phillips published
Maybe next time Maybe in the next life.
Everywhere, an upcoming multiplayer sandbox game with a powerful creation suite under the hood, will be opening its toolkit to closed beta testers soon
By Harvey Randall published
News Everywhere, everywhere, but not all at once quite yet.
Helldivers 2's enormous balance patch means business—weapons are getting buffed, galactic map supply lines are here, solo patrols are sensible again, and the worst mission modifier is gone
By Harvey Randall published
News The new Warbond will also be released later today.
Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P implies that Dawntrail's story will have something to do with the Twelve and the Ascians still, and my brain is on fire
By Harvey Randall published
News What does it mean!
I played Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and talked to its creator about quests that 'don't give you the dragon money', Mass Effect 2 as an 'anti-reference', and making RPGs that aren't based on D&D
By Harvey Randall published
Sweet dreams "I want people to say 'I've finished Baldur's Gate 3', and for other people to say 'go play Citizen Sleeper 2.'"
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's romanceable companions won't just wait around for you to woo them—also, they're all canonically pansexual
By Harvey Randall published
News Pan-ultimate.
FOMO is alive and well—Life is Strange: Double Exposure has a 2-week early access period if you cough up some dough for its Ultimate Edition
By Harvey Randall published
News Wanna avoid spoilers? You best avoid using YouTube for two entire weeks.
Obsidian's Avowed shows off a 25-minute deep dive—revealing a 3rd person mode, a first look at its RPG mechanics, and a flirty wizard in need of a vase
By Harvey Randall published
News There are thirsty Animancers in your area.
The Legend of Vox Machina, Critical Role's animated retelling of the D&D campaign that made it famous, gets a release date and trailer for its 3rd season
By Harvey Randall published
News Time to crush the Chroma Conclave.
Obsidian CEO confident Avowed will be out in 2024: 'There's a lot of work ahead in the next while, but it's not, like, 'Oh crap'
By Harvey Randall last updated
News A November release date appeared in a blog post and was scrubbed, but the plan remains to get the RPG out this year.
OutRage: Fight Fest is a nifty 16-player brawler that's trying to do punch-'em-up Fall Guys, but I'm just not sure there's enough depth to get people hooked
By Harvey Randall published
News Give 'em the old one, two, three. Now repeat that forever.
Phil Spencer continues to dance around Hi Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks' closure, says he has 'to make hard decisions that frankly are not decisions I love'
By Harvey Randall published
News The line must continue to go up.
Demonschool is a promising occult turn-based tactics take on Persona that's finally coming out this year, and I think we've got another Into the Breach on our hands
By Harvey Randall published
PCGS School's in for summer.
You can dance, dance, and start a revolution in All Systems Dance: a grooving adventure game where you reprogram robots by shakin' it
By Harvey Randall published
PCGS "The revolution will not be choreographed."
Take back your swamp in Toads of the Bayou, a deckbuilding roguelike with a splash of turn-based-tactics for flavour
By Harvey Randall published
PCGS Lock 'n' Toad.
Mixtape looks like it's going to do Life is Strange better than the new Life is Strange will
By Harvey Randall published
News If Max had a nickel for every time her best friend died as an inciting incident, she'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
Obsidian's next RPG Avowed gets a trailer hinting at a trio of factions—those who want to purge the Dream Scourge, those who want to tame it, and a secret third thing
By Harvey Randall published
News Mysterious energies.
World of Warcraft: The War Within gets a release date, marking the exact start of the MMO's new 3-expansion long era—as well as a shiny CG trailer
By Harvey Randall published
News Xal'atath's got a hunger that only World Souls can satisfy.
South of Midnight, a gorgeous action adventure game with weighty, Souls-adjacent combat and stylised cutscenes will be dodge-rolling onto PC next year
By Harvey Randall published
News Alright, I'm sold.
Bare bones Steam item generator Banana rakes in over 100,000 concurrents in the span of a few days—reaches top 10 on Steam's 'most played'
By Harvey Randall published
News I'm going bananas.
'We love you. We miss you. We hate money': Ultrakill and Gloomwood publisher New Blood Interactive turns a billboard into a grave marker for fallen studios including Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin
By Harvey Randall published
News "Gone but not forgotten."
Yoshi-P says that the Final Fantasy 14 team is taking aim at the game's same-y combat jobs and 2-minute-meta, but that'll come after Dawntrail tackles its encounter design
By Harvey Randall published
News Forging ahead.
Oof: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League lost Warner Bros. $200 million—which is $25 million more than the original 2016 movie cost to make
By Harvey Randall published
News Repeated zig-zags left developers, among other things, confused as to why "Captain Boomerang, known for fighting with his namesake weapon, would suddenly pivot to gunplay."
Yoshi-P will turn Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail around if players keep asking for a raise spell on Pictomancer, jokes: 'it'd be best to remove raise from all of those jobs' if they don't behave
By Harvey Randall published
News Ease-of-use.
Helldivers 2 announces slower gear releases alongside its latest warbond, Viper Commandos—which brings the game's first vehicle skins (and a rad-looking throwing knife)
By Harvey Randall published
News Arrowhead says its slower cadence is meant to provide weapons with "stronger theming" and alternate rewards.
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