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

Kojima in space
Hideo Kojima finally gets to go to space—but only in an AI-generated ad for Prada

By Fraser Brown Published

News He's embracing AI to advertise the luxury brand's private club, Prada Mode.

News
Star Trek Online split image with a Federation captain on the left and some ships on the right
After outliving 6 Star Trek TV shows, Star Trek Online deserves more love

By Fraser Brown Published

Live long and prosper Star Trek Online is a survivor, but it should be flourishing.

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Live long and prosper
Aribeth de Tylmarande in Neverwinter Nights.
I'll never love another RPG like I loved Neverwinter Nights

By Fraser Brown Published

Sweet dreams Let me tell you about the time when I used to build worlds.

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Sweet dreams
Split image of a diver sitting and a monster in the water
Subnautica 2 could become a chilling horror game, if only it would shut up

By Fraser Brown Published

Silence is golden The abyss should not be this chatty.

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Silence is golden
Subnautica 2 screenshot
Subnautica 2's EULA is so severe that even this news story breaks it

By Fraser Brown Published

News Sorry, Krafton, I'm a bad, bad boy.

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News
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I can't believe a tabletop RPG based on Ubisoft's The Division has proved to be so popular

By Fraser Brown Published

News The Division is coming to tables later this year.

News
All Will Rise
All Will Rise devs 'definitely expect some pushback from Western audiences' over its depiction of violent resistance and ecoterrorism

By Fraser Brown Published

News "We are an activist story that deals with these topics."

News
Sarevok, Baldur's Gate's antagonist
Baldur's Gate 2 almost had a 'time travel plot', letting you visit an alternate future where BG1's main villain rules the Sword Coast

By Fraser Brown Published

News Sadly Sarevok never got his do-over.

News
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Don't sleep on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes—it's tricky, tactical and the best FTL-like since, well, FTL

By Fraser Brown Published

Starstruck So say we all.

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Starstruck
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One of BioShock's directors has been questioning the point of one of its key systems: 'I don't care about how many different plasmids I have'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Imsim legend Jonathan Chey's new game is exploring a solution to plasmid favouritism.

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News
Jaheira in Baldur's Gate 3 kneeling, holding hand out, looking shocked
The great RPG debate: Is turn-based or real-time-with-pause better for CRPGs?

By Fraser Brown Published

Fight! Time to relitigate this contentious subject.

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Fight!
Gothic Remake preview
Despite Gothic Remake's glow-up, it's still the scrappy eurojank RPG it always was, and that's fine with me

By Fraser Brown Published

Summer camp Returning to the Colony 25 years later.

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Summer camp
Crimson Desert - Dog
'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

By Fraser Brown Published

News Pearl Abyss skipped the hardest part.

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News
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era early access
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era isn't a reimagining or a divisive reinterpretation, it's just a brilliant strategy game

By Fraser Brown Published

Pure magic Conquering the world like it's 1999.

Pure magic
Kliff has a bird perched on his forearm.
Pearl Abyss paid its employees a 5 million won bonus after Crimson Desert reached 5 million sales: 'Our journey does not end here'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Crimson Desert reached the sales milestone a couple of weeks ago.

News
Crimson Desert Kliff holding cat
Crimson Desert is an amazing game, but it wouldn't be nearly as great without its enthusiastic community

By Fraser Brown Published

Pack man It might be a singleplayer game, but we're all Greymanes together.

Pack man
Key art for Diablo 4's Season of Slaughter. A massive horned demon holding a cleaver and a hook stands behind a barbarian character. Between them there is a red, half-demon man to symbolize a transformation.
I finally like Diablo 4 now, and it's because I embraced laziness

By Fraser Brown Published

Love and hate It's still no Path of Exile, though.

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Love and hate
Exodus screenshot
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

By Fraser Brown Published

News Not to be confused with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, which also looks like Mass Effect.

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News
Crimson Desert in-game cosplay
Crimson Desert players are doing important work by turning Kliff into Captain America, Spider-Man and Superman

By Fraser Brown Published

News Mario is also here to fix Pywel's plumbing problems.

News
Crimson Desert White Bear
This week's Crimson Desert update is the one I'm looking forward to the most

By Fraser Brown Published

News We're finally getting some proper inventory management.

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News
Shepard looking sad
How BioWare can make an unlikely comeback, and why it never will: The first step is cancelling Mass Effect

By Fraser Brown Published

Move on The once prestigious RPG studio is in a serious rut, but there's a way out.

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Move on
Billy getting pummeled
Billy the pickpocket is the unluckiest man in Crimson Desert

By Fraser Brown Published

News Oh Billy, will you never learn?

News
Kliff looking serious
Crimson Desert's less than ideal launch is a distant memory as it hits the 4 million sales milestone

By Fraser Brown Published

News Kliff's raking in the big bucks.

News
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance review
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance review – A 4-hour slog that teases a bleak future for the beloved series

By Fraser Brown Published

Tarnished legacy A stake through the heart.

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Tarnished legacy
Crimson Desert Twitch Drops: A close-up of Kliff bracing while holding his sword over his shield, ready to thrust.
The consensus is that Crimson Desert has terrible storytelling—it's not true

By Fraser Brown Published

The Devil told me so The Crimson Desert defender has logged on.

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The Devil told me so
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