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

A woman in a suit and hat drives an old-fashioned car past a whirlpool in the sky
Aether & Iron review – A lean RPG with turn-based flying car combat

By Jody Macgregor Published

Art Deco Elysium Arcanum meets Bioshock Infinite in a speakeasy.

Art Deco Elysium
Batman: Arkham Origins Advanced Graphics mod
Batman: Arkham Origins has a graphics mod that looks like a remaster

By Jody Macgregor Published

News My third-favorite Batman: Arkham game is looking a lot slicker.

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Death Stranding 2 PC
Death Stranding 2's PC port pushed it past 2 million copies sold

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Ghost of Yotei, this could be you.

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A floating head in sunglasses, surrounded by pixelated versions of the same image
Blippo+ is a campy FMV transmission from another world

By Jody Macgregor Published

Tune In Turn on, tune in, drop out, and become a retro couch potato.

Tune In
Hologram pop star NG Resonance dances
Deus Ex: Invisible War's audio director says 'there was room for improvement,' but remains proud of the team's work

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "It wasn't this '90s cyberpunk Johnny Mnemonic cheese fest that everybody reveled in at that time."

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Grace stares into the light, holding her pistol
Resident Evil Requiem patch adds photo mode, and apparently 'Character expressions in some cutscenes have been adjusted to better convey emotion'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Some bugs have been fixed too.

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Cabb Uppercut uppercutting an opponent in zoomed-in Zero Company gameplay
'Realtime-with-pause is not dead,' says lead designer of promising turn-based game Star Wars Zero Company

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Which is why I'm looming over the genre's coffin with a stake and hammer.

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Emily Axford, playing a vampire, holds a finger up to an imaginary earpiece
Actual-play series Dimension 20 is partnering with White Wolf for a Vampire: The Masquerade show

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Now this is the Bloodlines sequel I want.

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Gideon adjusts his goggles
Now you can play Resident Evil Requiem in VR if that's a thing you want for some reason

By Jody Macgregor Published

News You and Gideon have fun.

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Cult online action RPG Marvel Heroes, after more than eight years offline, has player-run servers at last

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The ice has thawed.

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Bethesda learned its lesson from DLC pop-ups in its older RPGs: 'We've gotten better at that'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Starfield apparently won't be repeating the mistake.

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Leon Kennedy drives the Patty Wagon in a modded Resident Evil Requiem
Now you can replace Resident Evil Requiem's product-placement Porsche with a drivable hamburger

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Make your own joke about Leon's pickle.

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A rogue with a bow on her back raises an eyebrow
Solasta 2 is shaping up to be the kind of tactical D&D hexcrawl Baldur's Gate 3 very much was not

By Jody Macgregor Published

+1 The early access version seems better than the original in every way that matters.

+1
Red-eyed robots holding guns and being menacing
Starfield's Terran Armada story DLC will let you recruit a robot who is 'not evil' but also 'definitely not good'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Nick Valentine he ain't.

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A player home built into an asteroid
The Free Lanes update will finally demolish Starfield's most annoying loading screens, sort of

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Intrasystem space exploration looks like it'll actually be fun.

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A witch hunter raises a hammer as a suspect prays
Witches and glitches are your targets in retro adventure Witchhunter.exe

By Jody Macgregor Published

News This week, Doki Doki Literature Club's discussion book is the Malleus Maleficarum.

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A four-eyed necron bathed in light
Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "Because we really want to see all these sync-kills and all the sync-melee combat that you guys have got going on."

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A witch elf, surrounded by blood
The Blood Bowl update, using the tabletop game's latest rules, will be a separate game called Warhammer Blood Bowl 'free for all players who already own Blood Bowl 3'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News You'll get to transfer over any teams and other stuff you've unlocked.

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An example of a completed mission in AdHoc Studio's Dispatch.
Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

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A boat's catch of crabs are sorted by size, with the larger ones labeled as "patriotic" and the smaller as "not patriotic"
Crabmeat is a horror game about catching crabs—no, not like that

By Jody Macgregor Published

News No thank you, the ocean.

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Pero, a pear-shaped neoran, wobbles on the spot
Pokémon streamer's Kickstarter for a roguelite monster-collector hits its target in 10 minutes, then blows past $800K

By Jody Macgregor Published

News People sure do love building a squad of weird little guys.

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Alex D, her face lit by a hologram, and improved by the Visible Upgrade mod
In defense of Deus Ex: Invisible War

By Jody Macgregor Published

Hear Me Out "I think the world would be better off if people took the best things from both sides instead of always fighting over extremes."

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Hear Me Out
Leon and Grace, both injured and looking the worse for wear
Resident Evil Requiem delivered on the multiple-protagonist promise I've always wanted from Silent Hill

By Jody Macgregor Published

It Takes Two The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.

It Takes Two
Fallout New Vegas NCR troopers led by a veteran ranger charge out of Freeside
Lost Fallout: New Vegas post-ending dialogue has been found and restored

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The game was rigged from the start.

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Michelangelo swings a chain with a slice of blue pizza in his mouth
Turtle Team-Up turns Magic: The Gathering into a chill co-op game so you don't have to beat your friends and feel bad about it

By Jody Macgregor Published

Turtles Together Strong The power of friendship.

Turtles Together Strong
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