Jody Macgregor

Jody Macgregor

Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

Latest articles by Jody Macgregor

Arueshalae, the ascending succubus ranger
Owlcat's had some unusual problems writing romance: 'we realized we had three female romanceable characters, and all three were cannibals'

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News I can fix them.

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Bright fungus grows over a dark spacesuit
I thought this sci-fi mystery looked cool, but my interest dropped when I realized it's another multiplayer survival-crafting game

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News Blind Descent is aimed at people less miserable than me.

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Quintorius, a loxodon wizard, casts a spell on an elephantine statue
Magic: The Gathering's next wizard university set feels like going back to school, because we sure are going to have to learn a lot of mechanics

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News Secrets of Strixhaven is authentic to the educational experience. In a fun way.

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Iszara and Falicia, superimposed over a map on a loading screen
Almost 28 years later, the mystery of what's under women's skirts in Elder Scrolls spin-off Redguard has finally been solved

By Jody Macgregor Published

News I know you've all been dying to find out.

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Haymar Devos, a scarred Guard veteran in a red bandana
Owlcat reveals two new 40K companions, one for Rogue Trader and one for the upcoming Dark Heresy

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News I'll be honest, one of these seems much cooler than the other.

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Mario and Yoshi and Luigi
Zohran Mamdani turns philanthropy and corporate greed into an extended Mario Kart metaphor: 'Government is Yoshi'

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News Blue shells actually are an ideal model for how the economy should work.

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Gustave looks sad
Charlie Cox has finally played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33—a bit

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News The star of Stardust and Daredevil previously admitted to not having tried the game he stars in.

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Neil Newbon in Dungeon Masters
Wizards of the Coast's official D&D actual-play series will feature Neil Newbon and Devora Wilde from Baldur's Gate 3 among its players

By Jody Macgregor Published

News No, he won't be playing Astarion, though they are going to Ravenloft.

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A 3d-printed hot dog controller
Yes, technically you can play World of Warcraft with hot dogs

By Jody Macgregor Published

News But just because you can doesn't mean you should.

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A raider sporting a full beard in Arc Raiders.
About 30% of Arc Raiders players focus on PvE, and Embark's happy with that: 'We want to instil hope in the player'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Over 95% of players use the proximity chat.

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Skyrim console commands - a massive Dragonborn, embiggened by the setscale console command, crouches with surprising subtlety behind an unsuspecting Whiterun farmer.
Analysts say PC gaming is now the one platform where more than 50% of revenue comes from games outside the top 20

By Jody Macgregor Published

News We do love a stacked back catalogue.

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A man turns away from an open window while monsters gather in the dark
My favorite cosmic horror RPG is still being updated, and thanks to this latest patch 'The rat child's Copy Dad ability no longer copies gun skills for free'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines may be the better personal horror RPG, but Look Outside wins for cosmic spooking.

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A graveyard keeper with a shovel rides a donkey while a skull bites its tail
Giving Graveyard Keeper away for free apparently earned its publisher 'almost 250k'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News This is why games have so much DLC.

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Every Warhammer Fantasy game, ranked

By Jody Macgregor Last updated

Updated 💀 Chaos never sleeps and neither do I, apparently.

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Fantasy RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker's protagonist, Coen, a half human half vampire being holding onto a pole and staring into the night.
The director of sandbox vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn't mind seeing it compared to The Witcher 3, which he also directed: 'I feel really confident about our game'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Geralt of Styria.

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Every Warhammer 40,000 game, ranked

By Jody Macgregor Last updated

Updated 💀 We played them all to determine which games about space marines, space orks, tech-priests and tyranids are worth your time.

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Melinoe looks down from above, here eyes set in a scowl
Hades 2 patch is a smorgasbord of tiny additions, adding more closure to sidequests, an extra level of zoom, buffs to boons, and more romance

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "Another!"

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Candles flicker in the Particle Wind mod for Skyrim
Make Skyrim's weather feel more impactful with this particle mod

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It heckin' wimdy.

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An alien tyranid looms over a swooning romance novel protagonist
The AI smut peddlers have come for Warhammer 40,000 now

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Nothing is sacred.

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Marvel Rivals Season 6: Elsa Bloodstone from the S6 reveal trailer posing with her rifle over her shoulders and a smaller gun in her left hand, with a large monster in the distance.
Marvel Rivals creative director says it's going to become 'a comprehensive Marvel "moving anime" experience' and no, I don't know what that means either

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Your guess is as good as mine.

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The kids from the D&D cartoon hide behind a wooden door
Wizards of the Coast is uploading the old Dungeons & Dragons cartoon if you'd like a reminder of what the 1980s were like

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Watch the first 11 episodes right now.

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A woman runs fingers down her face, which is covered in foam
1000xResist developer added a video sequence 'out of desperation' but now they're bringing FMV back for their next game

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Prove You're Human will mix 3D graphics and full-motion video to bring its two worlds to life.

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An armored fish with a pistol, some penguins, and a toy soldier
The James Bond rights owners have opposed an application for a James Pond trademark

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Licence to Eel. Octoguppy. I'm just brainstorming here.

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Zork logo
The ill-advised business software that helped sink videogame pioneers Infocom now runs on modern PCs: 'It's a new age for aficionados of failed 1985 database products!'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The database app Cornerstone ended up being more of a cinderblock.

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An archer points a burning arrow at a dragon
Darkstone, a classic 1999 action RPG about eating apples and trying not to die of old age, is being remastered by its original creator

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Eat the apple, apple boy.

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