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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.

Articles by: Harvey Randall

Demon monster going hulk on a bunch of medieval soldier types

Carrion meets Castlevania in Necrofugitive—a 2D stealth-action game where your enemies can set traps and learn from your slaughter

By Harvey Randall published 30 September 23

news The Thing, but make it fantasy.

Pikachu, a Pokemon mascot, rendered in Van Gogh's signature style.

Van Gogh Museum's event gets gatecrashed by Pokemon TCG scalpers in a prime example of 'why we can't have nice things'

By Harvey Randall published 29 September 23

News Team Rocket's out in force.

A Baldur's Gate 3 custom Paladin in gleaming armor.

Larian's shared the most-played multiclasses in Baldur's Gate 3—and one of D&D's favourites is somehow second-to-last

By Harvey Randall published 29 September 23

News Sorcadin? Sorcadon't.

A screenshot from thelastfastbender on Reddit showing how rain collects around the player in Starfield.

Starfield's cursed rain orb lifts the veil on an old game design trick: 'pack it up boys, it's over'

By Harvey Randall published 29 September 23

News Pay no attention to that dev behind the curtain.

You probably don't want a high-level DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, anyway

By Harvey Randall published 29 September 23

POWER WORD: NAH Mo' spell levels, mo' problems.

Astarion, a silver-haired vampire from Baldur's Gate 3, places a hand on his chest and pouts.

Astarion can literally get blood from a stone in Baldur's Gate 3

By Harvey Randall published 28 September 23

News 'Bloodless. Really?'

An image of Snoop Dogg as an AI chatbot named "The Dungeon Master", wearing a fabulous red cape.

A Snoop Dogg AI named 'The Dungeon Master' joins Meta's new fleet of bots, which you can 'invoke' in your group chats at-will

By Harvey Randall published 28 September 23

News Mr Beast and Paris Hilton also join the list of celebs you can summon at the push of a button.

An ominous row of sandwiches perched upon a set of stairs in Starfield.

Starfield players are finding a use for all their junk and plundered sandwiches: Rube Goldberg machines

By Harvey Randall published 28 September 23

News It's tradition.

A skater in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 hits a sick grind on a rail.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 ollies its way onto Steam after 3 years in the Epic Games slammer

By Harvey Randall published 27 September 23

News Tubular.

Starfield DLSS3 mod creator threatens Patreon pirates with 'hidden mines' in monologue: 'They will never know if they have found all of them'

By Harvey Randall published 27 September 23

News Choosing to mod DRM into a game is... a 'bold' strategy.

An image of a Doom easter egg in Cyberpunk 2077.

Cyberpunk 2077 has a new Doom easter egg loaded with hints for the game's oldest mystery, like a QR code repaired using real-world maths from 1960

By Harvey Randall published 27 September 23

News You're not gonna believe what the error-correcting code is called, seriously.

A hero from Remnant 2 stands face-to-face with a vicious enemy, wielding an enormous axe, amidst a burning village.

Remnant 2 devs did no-hit runs to test their bosses 'if you could beat it the first time, it was too easy'

By Harvey Randall published 27 September 23

News The game's also getting 3 rounds of DLC, though specifics are hush-hush.

An image of Todd Howard in the middle of explaining a concept using hand gestures.

Todd Howard says that Starfield's ship AI sucks on purpose so players can actually hit stuff: 'You have to make the AI really stupid'

By Harvey Randall published 26 September 23

News Not everyone can make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

Two adventurers from Final Fantasy 14 stand back-to-back after felling a great foe.

Final Fantasy 14 is a 400-hour-plus epic you can share with your friends, and I'm not sure we'll see anything like it again

By Harvey Randall published 26 September 23

EVER ENDING STORY On stories, the MMORPG, and big turducken games.

My V from Cyberpunk 2077 crouches and stares at the ground in raw dread, having just read some memorial messages which broke his heart.

Cyberpunk 2077 2.0's new Edgerunners easter eggs just hit me with an existential crisis all over again

By Harvey Randall published 26 September 23

News Gonna take you there myself, fly you to the moon. That's a promise.

Mario from Super Mario 64 gets a star, flashing the peace sign.

Mario 64 speedrunners have cracked a 10-year-old problem, turning it from a Twitch chat meme into a must-use strat using algorithms and raw determination

By Harvey Randall published 26 September 23

News 'Go carpetless'.

An alien from Star Wars Eclipse shuffles through a busy market.

Detroit: Become Human dev's take on Star Wars is still cooking, and it'll have the studio's usual storytelling quirks: 'There's no game over. Anyone can die'

By Harvey Randall published 25 September 23

News Press X to tell Luke you're his father.

An image of a forest floating through space, magically attached to a ship in Starfield.

Starfield glitch sees players followed by rocks, forests, and the entire city of New Atlantis

By Harvey Randall published 25 September 23

News Pet rocks to doomed cities.

An image of V putting up his hand to Reed, a stern agent from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.

PSA: You can lock yourself out of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's main questline early on

By Harvey Randall published 25 September 23

News Choosing not to live… dangerously.