Fraser Brown

Fraser Brown

Online Editor

Fraser is the UK online editor and has actually met The Internet in person. With over a decade of experience, he's been around the block a few times, serving as a freelancer, news editor and prolific reviewer. Strategy games have been a 30-year-long obsession, from tiny RTSs to sprawling political sims, and he never turns down the chance to rave about Total War or Crusader Kings. He's also been known to set up shop in the latest MMO and likes to wind down with an endlessly deep, systemic RPG. These days, when he's not editing, he can usually be found writing features that are 1,000 words too long or talking about his dog.

Latest articles by Fraser Brown

A pope looking terrified
Tragedy: Crusader Kings 3's pope DLC will not let you use blood boys to prolong your life, and yes I did ask the devs

By Fraser Brown Published

Pope News If it was good enough for Pope Innocent VIII…

Pope News
Bryan screaming
Resident Evil is the best videogame movie because Bryan sucks

By Fraser Brown Published

Resident idiot Not that the competition was steep.

Resident idiot
People fleeing a volcanic eruption
Endless Legend 2 shows that Amplitude is still the master of faction design

By Fraser Brown Published

All the weirdos From sand-eating terraformers to vampire ghosts, I love them all.

All the weirdos
Harvey Smith
Dishonored's Harvey Smith named his new studio Black Pony Immersive so people would stop asking him to work on other genres: 'Specialising on what you love is not a bad path'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Please don't ask him to work on a third-person shooter.

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News
Company of Heroes 3 key art - three Allied soldiers on a rocky peak, shooting and throwing grenades at enemies
Relic thought Company of Heroes 3's ambitious dynamic campaign would eventually come together, but it didn't: 'We bit off more than we could chew'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Conceptually, it was great, but it was also quite broken.

News
The Witcher 3 Remastered
CDPR wants to make The Witcher 3 Remastered feel like any other game released today: 'It's so easy to get used to these new improvements that it's hard to go back'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Geralt's glow up.

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News
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Dishonored director Harvey Smith thinks there's still room for big-budget immersive sims: 'When it really comes together and it has the budget behind it and the team, you end up with Deus Ex or Dishonored'

By Fraser Brown Published

News And now he's going to have to duke it out with Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen.

News
Redfall wallpaper detail - image of a vampire
Redfall co-director Harvey Smith thinks Arkane 'never should have been working on a games-as-a-service game'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Smith has since left Arkane and founded Black Pony Immersive last month.

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News
Brencis
The Blood of Dawnwalker is a good game, but one change would make it a great RPG

By Fraser Brown Published

Time is an illusion The prologue promises something the game never quite delivers.

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Time is an illusion
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Thief designer thinks the graphics arms race should have ended with 2010's Alan Wake: 'The fidelity curve has become outrageous'

By Fraser Brown Published

News "Why do we need more graphics? Because they just cost a ton."

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News
Silent Hill: Townfall preview
Silent Hill: Townfall is the most Scottish game I've ever played and the most effective horror game I've seen in ages: 'It made sense for us to dig deep into our upbringings, into our past, and try and build a place that felt believable'

By Fraser Brown Published

Dreich And not just because of the foul weather.

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Dreich
Guild Wars 3 screenshot
Guild Wars 3 is a lot smaller scale than Guild Wars 2 because of the new approach to combat and movement: 'You would probably see about 20 players in a large combat scenario'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Expect more clarity, but no more 100-player boss fights.

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News
Guild Wars 3
Guild Wars 3's approach to combat and movement is like nothing I've ever seen in an MMO before: 'One of our big goals when we make a new game in the Guild Wars franchise is to set out and try new things'

By Fraser Brown Published

War always changes Wall running, mantling, aerial attacks, multiplayer combos—it's a lot of new stuff.

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War always changes
Space Marine pointing in Total War: Warhammer 40,000 image
Total War: Warhammer 40,000's Space Marines will have to keep the Imperium happy and avoid looking too heretical

By Fraser Brown Published

News Even genetically augmented super soldiers need to worry about their rep.

News
The Expanse Ganymede demo
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn turns the best Mass Effect mission into an entire game

By Fraser Brown Published

Space crimes And makes it better.

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Space crimes
A big Warhammer fight as units climb on skeletons.
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is a sandbox that Creative Assembly will keep adding to rather than making sequels: 'The true experience is the sandbox'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Expect big updates and DLC, but they'll all be built on top of this one game.

News
Afterworld concept art
Afterworld, Paradox's post-apocalyptic grand strategy game, let me conquer Florida with a band of alcoholic mutant cannibals

By Fraser Brown Published

Wild wasteland And everyone seemed happy with the change.

Wild wasteland
Space Marine pointing in Total War: Warhammer 40,000 image
I played just an hour of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and it was the highlight of my year

By Fraser Brown Published

This is the future Living the grimdark dream.

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This is the future
Nodusfall screenshot
Nodusfall isn't Elden Ring, Monster Hunter or a typical HoYoverse game—it's something very different

By Fraser Brown Published

Divine retribution Hands-on with the free-to-play boss-killer.

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Divine retribution
The protagonist of Warlock stands confidently in her regal attire.
Warlock's take on D&D magic might make me willing to sell my soul

By Fraser Brown Published

Friendship is magic Or at least rent it out.

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Friendship is magic
HoMM 3 Remake
I've played Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Remake, and I still can't believe we're getting 2 HoMMs in the same year

By Fraser Brown Published

Returning hero Ubisoft is going all in on fantasy tactics.

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Returning hero
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros isn't even out yet and it already feels ancient

By Fraser Brown Published

Stuck in the past A by-the-numbers RTS based on a TV show that ended seven years ago.

Stuck in the past
Nodusfall characters
HoYoverse's Nodusfall is free to play but isn't a typical gacha game: 'Characters are not obtained through random draws'

By Fraser Brown Published

Everything about the studio's new game is different.

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Action
Afterworld
Paradox's next grand strategy game is taking cues from Fallout and Mad Max

By Fraser Brown Published

News Afterworld will let you conquer post-apocalyptic North America.

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News
Key art showing various Warhammer 40K characters
Dawn of War 4 has been delayed: 'We saw an opportunity to further enhance Dawn of War 4 and deliver the quality of experience we've always envisioned'

By Fraser Brown Published

News The war has been put on hold until December.

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News
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