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

A miqo'te typing on a digital keyboard poses dramatically after delivering their chosen words in Final Fantasy 14.
How fast do you type, and has playing MMOs improved your typing in any way?

By Harvey Randall Published

MY TYPE On my touch-type, touch-type telephone.

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A screenshot of the World of Warcraft: Forever beta. An undead lady holds a glowing lantern while standing next to a wooden cart.
OCE players are stuck in perpetual night on WoW: Forever, but its devs are considering a fix

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News "It's something we talked about."

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WoW Forever screenshot
World of Warcraft: Forever's shiny lighting and water changes will be coming to retail: 'I don't know when, but I know they're talking about doing it'

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News World of Warcraft: Eventually.

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Attendees gather in front of an Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) logo displayed on a screen during the company's EA Play event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Saturday, June 10, 2017. EA revealed two new titles along with the annual iterations of the company's sports games, as well as unveiling the highly anticipated "Star Wars: Battlefront II" open-world multiplayer gameplay. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
'Morale has been terrible' at EA, workers claim, saying that AI mandates and mismanagement have left the company 'a cold dead place that's slowly decaying as leadership pilfers every last cent'

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News "EA executives cannot fail, only be failed."

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GTA 6 location Ambrosia
GTA 6's NPCs have about 600,000 animations, as well as personality traits that take 'demographic and professional' variables into account

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news "Who's going to be aggressive? … How many are going to test me?"

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A crying orc in World of Warcraft: Forever.
World of Warcraft was meant to have viable levelling gear from professions way back in 2004, but the designers on raids and dungeons 'cheated a little bit'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Getting crafty.

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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.
FF14's new Evolved jobs won't deal a 'huge amount' more damage than their Reborn counterparts, says Koji Fox

By Harvey Randall Published

News "I think it's going to be very negligible."

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An odd-looking 'realistic' Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
Square Enix vets say devs of the future will need to 'master the use of AI', but the human touch will still be vital

By Harvey Randall Published

News "Humans need to be involved in the initial step of turning zero into one."

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Ghost of Yotei
You just can't win—despite Ghost of Yōtei selling millions of copies, 24 people are reportedly being let go from Sucker Punch

By Harvey Randall Published

News Are the "challenges in the market" in the room with us right now?

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The War Within pre-expansion patch
The best MMOs on PC

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Fine Grinds The best MMOs, whether you love massive raids, playing through a great story on your own, or ruling a corporation

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Fine Grinds
An undead paladin in World of Warcraft: Forever, running through the plaugelands.
I have jumped in WoW: Forever's beta 7738 times, roughly 135 jumps an hour, and if you'd like to find out if you beat me there's a stat tracker

By Harvey Randall Published

News Me jump that kind of orc.

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The logo for the 44th annual Golden Joystick Awards
The Golden Joystick Awards Ultimate Game of the Year voting is a-go, with games like Crimson Desert, The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Big Walk all on the docket

By Harvey Randall Published

News It's voting time.

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A group of raiders tackling a dungeon in World of Warcraft: Forever.
Now it's over, WoW: Forever's beta has left me with just one fear—its endgame

By Harvey Randall Published

LINE GO UP How do you zig when all you know is zag?

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LINE GO UP
Mass Effect 4 teaser image
'What we were cooking was really cool': An award-winning science fiction author was working on Mass Effect 5's story

By Harvey Randall Published

News What could've been.

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Mass Effect's Amazon series is reportedly continuing after BioWare shutdown, which'll make an uncomfortable gravestone for the studio's work

By Harvey Randall Published

News Here lies BioWare's sci-fi opera, you can tell because we put 'Mass Effect' on the gravestone.

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Melinoe from Hades 2 raises her hand while casting a potent incantation.
No soundtrack does it like Hades 2

By Harvey Randall Published

GOOD GODS I'm still listening to this thing a year later.

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GOOD GODS
An orc crying in front of The Barrens in World of Warcraft.
Discussion time: Do you think zone chats in MMOs are forces for good, or evil?

By Harvey Randall Published

[1. General] What's up, Barrens Chat.

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[1. General]
A wizard casting a time spell from Deep Magic: Time Magic by Kobold Press.
Surprising no-one, Wizards of the Coast 'doesn't intend to voluntarily recognize' union efforts for the second time this year

By Harvey Randall Published

News "Wizards is not neutral on the question of unionization."

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Steam and the Epic Games launcher represented as two cars on a race track.
Former Valve writer baffled by Epic CEO Tim Sweeney's attempts to compete with Steam via vibe coding

By Harvey Randall Published

News Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek had some strong words for the Epic boss.

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A triple image showing artwork from the upcoming game Red Rooster.
Disco Elysium splinter studio's Red Rooster is going to be a 'an incendiary, physics-driven RPG' where you play an inmate, an opiate-fuelled mathematician, and a bus driver with nunchucks

By Harvey Randall Published

News Setting the world on fire.

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An orc in World of Warcraft grins greedily into a bag overflowing with gold.
WoW: Forever has a new kind of ban to deal with real money trading

By Harvey Randall Published

News Time isn't money, friend.

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GTA 6 character Brian Heder
GTA 6 was delayed partially because the amount of NPCs was 'horrifying' and required a dedicated studio full of writers to handle

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News "We [could have] hit that schedule, but it won’t be the game we want to make."

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Eric Barone and a screenshot of haunted chocolatier
Haunted Chocolatier is still 'a town game', but it'll be more of an action RPG: 'It's for the people in Stardew Valley that go into the mines'

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News Farming dungeons, not gourds.

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Asha Sharma in Microsoft's Unlocking the AI Revolution showcase: "Join us for this insightful interview with Asha Sharma where she will outline the forward direction for AI products, focusing on how they can assist administrators and IT professionals in managing costs and enhancing their operations. Asha will also highlight exciting use cases and real-world applications of AI that have emerged over the past year and a half."
Hundreds of layoffs and many cancelled projects later, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reportedly says 'we will not survive' without new IPs

By Harvey Randall Published

News Having one's cake and eating it too is meant to be a metaphor.

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Glen Schofield stands in a large field
Dead Space creator says he was 'forced to ship' The Callisto Protocol by Krafton: 'We had f*cking Covid'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Kraftoff.

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