Latest articles by Fraser Brown
Debate: Is turn-based or real-time-with-pause better for CRPGs?
Fight! Time to relitigate this contentious subject.
Despite Gothic Remake's glow-up, it's still the scrappy eurojank RPG it always was, and that's fine with me
Summer camp Returning to the Colony 25 years later.
'Why didn't anyone think of this before?': Former Elder Scrolls Online boss loves Crimson Desert, but making 'a singleplayer MMO is almost like cheating' to him
News Pearl Abyss skipped the hardest part.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era isn't a reimagining or a divisive reinterpretation, it's just a brilliant strategy game
Pure magic Conquering the world like it's 1999.
Pearl Abyss paid its employees a 5 million won bonus after Crimson Desert reached 5 million sales: 'Our journey does not end here'
News Crimson Desert reached the sales milestone a couple of weeks ago.
Crimson Desert is an amazing game, but it wouldn't be nearly as great without its enthusiastic community
Pack man It might be a singleplayer game, but we're all Greymanes together.
I finally like Diablo 4 now, and it's because I embraced laziness
Love and hate It's still no Path of Exile, though.
Exodus, the sci-fi RPG from former Mass Effect devs, couldn't look more like Mass Effect in the teasers we've been getting this month
News Not to be confused with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, which also looks like Mass Effect.
Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
Bargain Dates, biggest discounts, tips, annual Steam sale dates, and more.
Crimson Desert players are doing important work by turning Kliff into Captain America, Spider-Man and Superman
News Mario is also here to fix Pywel's plumbing problems.
This week's Crimson Desert update is the one I'm looking forward to the most
News We're finally getting some proper inventory management.
How BioWare can make an unlikely comeback, and why it never will: The first step is cancelling Mass Effect
Move on The once prestigious RPG studio is in a serious rut, but there's a way out.
The best strategy games on PC
Updated! From real-time classics to modern turn-based favorites, these are the best strategy games on PC.
The best RPGs on PC
Updated! Discover your next epic adventure with our list of the most essential RPGs you can play on PC right now.
Billy the pickpocket is the unluckiest man in Crimson Desert
News Oh Billy, will you never learn?
Crimson Desert's less than ideal launch is a distant memory as it hits the 4 million sales milestone
News Kliff's raking in the big bucks.
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance review – A 4-hour slog that teases a bleak future for the beloved series
Tarnished legacy A stake through the heart.
The consensus is that Crimson Desert has terrible storytelling—it's not true
The Devil told me so The Crimson Desert defender has logged on.
Larian publishing boss takes some spicy swipes at Crimson Desert, calling it a 'cynical amalgamation of borrowed mechanics'—but I think he might be the cynical one this time
News Is it really cynical to take great ideas from other games, or is it just how you design a good game?
Jack Black would be up for playing a 'portly American' if there's another live-action Yakuza movie: 'Sega, give me a jingle'
News He's really trying to rack up those videogame adaptation credits.
Street Fighter 6's new DLC character is into incest, and somehow Capcom is making the whole thing even weirder
News Apparently the problem is that we're confused, and not that Alex is married to his adoptive sister and second cousin.
Crimson Desert is great because it's a total mess, not in spite of it, and I hope Pearl Abyss doesn't change too much
Kliffhanger Let's get weird.
Players are starting to click with Crimson Desert as it climbs up to Very Positive on Steam and reaches 3 million sales—but Pearl Abyss promises more improvements
News It launched to Mixed reviews, but it's talked players around.
