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
![Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League screenshot of Boomerang](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jUFDMmvZHK2asvfUJXXtt8-320-80.jpg)
Less than 6 months later, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be free to download and keep for Prime subscribers—though you'll only have 48 hours to snag it
By Harvey Randall published
News One last try.
![An image of Halsin, wildshaped into a bear, from Baldur's Gate 3.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EqDVAoEYX5swwb5sRcFn6h-320-80.png)
Bear sex 'a watershed moment in game history', says Baldur's Gate 3 writer
By Harvey Randall published
News The bear obscenities, the simple bear obscenities.
![Anduin Wrynn from World of Warcraft, reimagined as a racetrack engineer with what appears to be a popsicle sticking out of his mouth.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XpTQxzeiWUMJmp9ZWZL5jd-320-80.png)
The maverick animators behind the WoW Classic trailers put together a rad-as-hell montage of an Azeroth turned destruction derby
By Harvey Randall published
News The "MM" in "MMORPG" stands for Mad Max.
![An image of a Pandaren and a Gnome taunting their enemies in World of Warcraft's new Battle Royale mode, Plunderstorm.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dEgXyZZCMAnMG6nvdiSRQV-320-80.png)
As WoW returns to China, NetEase has placed a $14,000 bounty on reports that see cheat peddlers punished by law
By Harvey Randall published
News Crime doesn't pay, but reporting it might.
![Alisaie, a headstrong ally in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, looks skeptically while standing in the middle of a beautiful blue forest.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wPqxSB2RqQ74tSh4hxae6S-320-80.png)
FF14 player counts around 21 hours of cutscenes in Dawntrail—making it the second longest expansion next to Endwalker—and I can't for the life of me tell you why
By Harvey Randall published
News A long and winding road.
![Palworld early access](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/stY9Y9brQfSH2hYwyK5RTi-320-80.jpg)
'Our artists draw thousands of sketches': Palworld's CEO, seemingly exhausted by AI art accusations, once more tries to put them to bed
By Harvey Randall published
News Drawing the lines.
![T'wo Faciel, my Dark Urge character, lands stunned on a beach after falling from a Mind Flayer ship. He is a half-elf with half his face marred by burns and a tattoo.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jk2V8ZTmwJ66sbQUm26eki-320-80.png)
Baldur's Gate 3's spell tooltips have been lying to you for (potentially) months, though if you've been running off the % chance to hit, you're just fine
By Harvey Randall published
News Don't you believe in magic? Well, you were probably right.
![The tutorial robot for The First Descendant, who speaks far too quickly for its own good.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gbwhL4TubLExcPMcc52Cpi-320-80.png)
The First Descendant's tutorial robot is talking so fast, players are having to screenshot its dialogue just to learn about the game
By Harvey Randall published
News I'm beginning to feel like a rap bot, rap bot.
![Swen Vincke](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NCHqKsgM3CPm3EhF2iwrAB-320-80.jpg)
The Baldur's Gate 3 council of sages (or Larian Studios, if you want to be boring) meets on holy ground to discuss 'lift off' for its next big game
By Harvey Randall published
News The room where it happened.
![Zenless Zone Zero Nicole build - Nicole flipping a coin](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rvPGDSokmSZFBdD55SejSV-320-80.jpg)
50 million downloads in less than a week: Zenless Zone Zero, MiHoYo's action-RPG gacha, is (unsurprisingly) popular
By Harvey Randall published
News That's a lot of people catching Zs.
![Bakool Ja Ja, a twin-headed Blessed Sibling from Final Fantasy 14, regards the camera with twin sets of mischievous smirks.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V4C3mVLNQT5LepMQma7Cc6-320-80.jpg)
FF14 players skip over perfectly serviceable catboy to thirst relentlessly over a giant, two-headed lizard jerk instead
By Harvey Randall published
News Gaga for Bakool Ja Ja.
![A character waves a British flag in the Wasteland in Fallout: London.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FWqb4sKXDmxoexvicxtAWj-320-80.png)
'The end is in sight'—Fallout: London, a DLC-sized mod plagued by delays, will arrive soon with its own installer to help slim the chances of Bethesda breaking it a 2nd time
By Harvey Randall published
News "We should be good to go."
![The main character V posing in Cyberpunk 2077.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sSbEMjUTdfhKftKfY7Dvh8-320-80.jpg)
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty couldn't have been as good 'if the initial reception of the game wasn’t as negative', says lead quest designer
By Harvey Randall published
News As one Idris Elba might say, the game is fixed.
![Krile, a lalafell pictomancer from Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, smiles happily while lit by a campfire.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sEDMjAzHoPGmT2NEnNrtCW-320-80.png)
Say what you like about Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's story, but these bosses and dungeons are some of the dev's best work so far
By Harvey Randall published
BOSS GUSH Dungeons, not drag-ons.
![Morrowind guard](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ECxPW57UAwARCngJ4KgsCe-320-80.jpg)
'Very few' people would play a Morrowind-style RPG with 'no compass, no map' and a reliance on quest text, says ESO director, 'which is kind of sad'
By Harvey Randall published
News (M)oral compass.
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'It was so much of a cash cow': Former GTA 5 dev implies ill-fated Agent Trevor DLC was sacrificed at the altar of GTA Online
By Harvey Randall published
News "It was hard to make an argument that a standalone DLC would outcompete that."
![Elden Ring dungeons](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/oPHtmWuQBC3VNhPRxghNbM-320-80.jpg)
Dataminer unearths 'cut' voicelines from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's stoic final boss
By Harvey Randall published
News Promises unspoken.
![A viper in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail looking utterly perplexed, hood down, while stood on a beautiful sunrise overlooking a crystal blue sea.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZNKGQHtQbVv2XgXAE5ksfM-320-80.png)
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players are baffled by proposed changes to Viper, a job that's existed for less than week, and honestly so am I
By Harvey Randall published
News "Y'all can't just press True North?"
![Pictomancer in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LjygDAmdrK4LTrizKQyQBX-320-80.jpg)
Final Fantasy 14's director confirms that no, Pictomancers weren't meant to manually remove their own buffs for a 1% DPS increase—outlines other job changes for patch 7.01 of Dawntrail
By Harvey Randall published
News "My apologies for any confusion this may have caused."
![Elden Ring screenshot - man with torch standing near giant ants and a pile of gooey dead bodies](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HcdeuK4vXDZKraTt2tqGY6-320-80.jpg)
After playing last year's soulslikes, Shadow of the Erdtree reminded me that no one knows how to use ambushes like FromSoftware
By Harvey Randall published
OUTTA NOWHERE Difficulty's got nothing to do with it.
![Krile, a member of the Students of Baldesion in FF14, considers a wax-sealed invitation in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KjQyjuD7Jhvrno8yPsmKf4-320-80.png)
The father of Final Fantasy loves FF14 so much, fellow devs at his studio have had to log on sometimes to say 'hey, the meeting's started'
By Harvey Randall published
News "On a rare occasion—I want to stress 'rare occasion'."
![Volo the bard telling a story in Baldur's Gate 3.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eV3u2va43JidkdLS76ZXUX-320-80.jpg)
Go farruk yourself: Creator of the D&D setting used for Baldur's Gate 3 teaches us how to cuss
By Harvey Randall published
News Ua tah phind thlah ea Lolth!
![Gale from Baldur's Gate 3 under a veil of moonlight, looking very sad.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qAhX8fRdqX5a3iRphQ2cJ-320-80.png)
D&D's lead rules designer admits he changed some spells because of how 'painful' and 'excruciating to cast' they were in Baldur's Gate 3
By Harvey Randall published
News "I thought: 'we are going to redesign Produce Flame.'"