
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

Elden Ring Nightreign Executor build, tips, and best weapons
By Harvey Randall last updated
Blade and claw Plant your feet and become the beast.

WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: 'We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field'
By Harvey Randall published
News As a FF14 and WoW player both, I don't think this is gonna go as well as they think it will.

I wasn't expecting a FromSoftware game, of all things, to be so gut-bustingly funny—but just like Helldivers 2, Elden Ring Nightreign turns death into a punchline
By Harvey Randall published
LAUGH TRACK Whomped in the Lands Between.

'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'
By Harvey Randall published
News You're always being guided, you're just annoyed when you realise it.

'I want you to have the confidence to give it a try': Elden Ring Nightreign's combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he's beat all the game's bosses, solo, without relics
By Harvey Randall published
News I dunno if "confidence" is the word I'd use to describe how I feel.

The Elder Scrolls Online's subclassing feature shakes up the meta in its newest update, Seasons of the Worm Cult, as the devs set their sights on harder difficulties: 'It's in the works'
By Harvey Randall published
News 10 years on, and things are changing for The Elder Scrolls Online.

SteamDB changes might finally herald the end of a long wait for Silksong (again), though with SGF on the horizon, I think Team Cherry has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time
By Harvey Randall published
News Deluded chanting: Shadow drop! Shadow drop!

FF14 unofficial census finds what we were all pretty much feeling—before patch 7.25, Dawntrail's playerbase has likely been on the decline
By Harvey Randall published
News Nearly 12 months for somethin' to do.

I tried the 'oops, all status effects' Executor loadout in Elden Ring Nightreign that turns his starting katana into a god-killing uber-sword—shockingly, it's pretty good
By Harvey Randall published
HIGH STATUS I feel like I'm ignoring half of the game, here.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's tremendously messed-up endings aren't what I'd hoped for—and I hope Sandfall keeps it that way
By Harvey Randall published
SAD END I don't want a future DLC to tie everything in a neat bow.

Someone's already completed a solo Elden Ring Nightreign run at level 1 and, as is tradition, the power of status effects pulled through
By Harvey Randall published
News Executor my beloved.

Update: The Elden Ring Nightreign Duos mod from the creator of Seamless Co-op is already available to and play
By Harvey Randall last updated
News "There's also potential for a player cap increase in the future."

FromSoftware's clunky UI and coy descriptions are keeping me from truly loving Elden Ring Nightreign
By Harvey Randall published
US-ERR INTERFACE Let me love you the way I want to.

After 11 gruelling days and the death of Super Earth's president, Helldivers 2 players have succeeded in turning the Illuminate to calamari and protecting democracy
By Harvey Randall published
News With two cities remaining, Helldivers have held the line.

Despite 'mixed' reviews, Elden Ring Nightreign explodes onto Steam, with 300,000-150,000 players presumably getting wrecked by a big dog
By Harvey Randall published
News Sif's looking a little more yoked nowadays.

Elden Ring Nightreign tier list: Who's the best character to pick?
By Sean Martin published
Best of the best Choose which Nightfarer to take into the perilous land of Limveld.

Game of Thrones creator and Elden Ring loremaster George R.R. Martin has utterly had it with folks hounding him for his next book: 'I care about them all. More than you can ever imagine'
By Harvey Randall published
News The prolific author is currently adapting the work of a late friend and science fiction author Howard Waldrop.

Rejoice, hammer s—Monster Hunter Wild's new patch just buffed the bonk squad, alongside a huge quality-of-life feature for hoarders and optimisation improvements on PC
By Harvey Randall published
News It's hammer time.

World of Warcraft Classic returns to Mists of Pandaria this July—marking a chance to return to the beloved expansion without the gulp frog melodrama
By Harvey Randall published
News Everybody was kung-fu grinding.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sells 3.3 million copies in 33 days, in case you needed any more evidence we're living in a simulation
By Harvey Randall published
News 33.3 percent, recurring, of course, chance of good sale figures.

'Brevity should be more of a virtue': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's devs are happy they made an 'intense and short' 30-60 hours of RPG
By Harvey Randall published
News Short and sweet.

Aureole – Wings of Hope is a high-speed, nifty platformer where you wrangle a supersonic, physics-based ring to eventually thwart a jacked devil
By Harvey Randall published
News Ring around the foe-sies.

CDPR didn't put harsh themes in Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 'for the sake of edginess', but because 'you're probably not making art' if the devs are never challenged
By Harvey Randall published
News "We do heavy things if we have something meaningful to say."
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