Phil Savage

Phil Savage

Editor-in-Chief

Phil has been writing for PC Gamer for nearly a decade, starting out as a freelance writer covering everything from free games to MMOs. He eventually joined full-time as a news writer, before moving to the magazine to review immersive sims, RPGs and Hitman games. Now he leads PC Gamer's UK team, but still sometimes finds the time to write about his ongoing obsessions with Destiny 2, GTA Online and Apex Legends. When he's not levelling up battle passes, he's checking out the latest tactics game or dipping back into Guild Wars 2. He's largely responsible for the whole Tub Geralt thing, but still isn't sorry.

Latest articles by Phil Savage

Destiny 2: Season of Plunder promo image.
'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback

By Phil Savage Published

news A small team tasked with making the game better did a lot of good, but also made one major error.

news
The Barrow-Dyad exotic SMG.
How to unlock the Barrow-Dyad exotic in Destiny 2

By Phil Savage Published

Unreal A new exotic just dropped in Destiny 2. Here's how to find the secret Derealize mission and earn it.

Unreal
Doom: The Dark Ages art
After Doom Eternal's intense acrobatics, Doom: The Dark Ages will focus on simplified, ergonomic controls: 'You shouldn't be fighting the controls, you should be fighting the bad guys'

By Phil Savage Published

(F) Rip, Tear The vibes are as Doom as ever, but the core combat loop will centre around three buttons.

(F) Rip, Tear
Inzoi character studio - A Zoi designed to look like Billie Eilish
18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025

By Phil Savage Published

🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.

🕹️
Game of the Year
PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2024

By Phil Savage Last updated

The gotys From major releases to the games that perfectly captured their niche, these were the best games of the year.

The gotys
Personal Pick: Against the Storm
Against the Storm looks charming and cosy, but it's actually the best and most fiendish city builder I've played in years

By Phil Savage Published

🏆 This devilishly deep city builder is the cleverest thing I played all year.

🏆
A Warlock in his Winter's Wrath super.
A Destiny 2 bug was causing a niche exotic to delete raid bosses in seconds, so of course it's already been disabled

By Phil Savage Published

news Ballidorse Wrathweavers were meta… for a few hours, at least.

news
Titan bosses from the Janthir Wilds raid.
As Guild Wars 2 continues to refine its new annual expansion cycle, today's major update adds its first raid in over 5 years

By Phil Savage Published

news ArenaNet wants the game's more casual audience to give 10-player raid encounters a chance.

news
Destiny 2 players have spent a week trying to prove one of the biggest conspiracy theories in the game's history, and it turns out that 'Weightgate' is real: 'An issue has been found in our code where some random perk combinations are harder to earn'

By Phil Savage Published

news Destiny players have no chill.

news
Wicked Implement
Bungie is claiming that a bug with one of Destiny 2's exotic weapons is actually a feature, and I'm going to go into excruciating detail about why I think that's wrong

By Phil Savage Published

Intrinsic Properties I have some opinions about the Wicked Implement scout rifle.

Intrinsic Properties
Three characters stand in the shadow of the Traveler.
A Destiny 2 mobile game has been announced, but it sounds like Bungie's involvement is minimal

By Phil Savage Published

News Netease confirms that Destiny: Rising exists, if a mobile co-op shooter is your thing.

News
The Sims 4 - The Grim Reaper stands in a room that is on fire
The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100

By Phil Savage Published

Top 100 We only have 100 spots to list. Not every game is going to make it.

Top 100
Atomfall Gamescom screenshots
Atomfall is a very British take on Stalker, where you explore a post-disaster Cumberland with a cricket bat

By Phil Savage Published

Cumbrian Explosion It's a holiday in the Lake District, and the locals aren't very friendly.

Cumbrian Explosion
Avowed
Obsidian seems scared people will compare Avowed to Skyrim, but it shouldn't be—the similarities are obvious, but the differences make it compelling

By Phil Savage Published

Elder Brother Bethesda's RPG looms large over Obsidian's latest, but having played it, there's no need to shrink from the comparison.

Elder Brother
A frog person poses near a cliff.
Our favourite city builder of last year is releasing its first expansion next month, and it brings a new biome, new buildings and, oh yes, frog people

By Phil Savage Published

news Against the Storm's Keepers of the Stone expansion will arrive September 26.

news
Indiana Jones
With Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, MachineGames is taking inspiration less from Uncharted and more from The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay: 'We've been going back a little bit into the history of our own'

By Phil Savage Published

Full circle MachineGames' latest has the potential to be much more than a first-person Tomb Raider.

Full circle
NPCs ride their new Warclaws.
Guild Wars 2's 5th expansion launches next week, and once again a mount is the star of the show

By Phil Savage Published

Bouncy Your big cat mount is now the master of the septendecuple jump.

Bouncy
Guild Wars 2 Homestead
Guild Wars 2's new player housing will add a hang-out for your alts, a stable for your mounts, and comes with a massive overhaul to the decorations system

By Phil Savage Published

Bear Necessities An exclusive look at Homestead, the new player housing system coming to Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds.

Bear Necessities
Cayde points his gun, Ace of Spades
Destiny 2: The Final Shape review – a miraculous turnaround as Bungie creates an expansion that rivals the series' best

By Phil Savage Published

Perfectly Shaped Destiny's first saga ends with one of the best expansions in the series' history.

Perfectly Shaped
A Titan carrying an orb.
Destiny 2's new exotic mission is the best Bungie has made in years, but some solo players are furious about having to speak to each other

By Phil Savage Published

news Dual Destiny is proving controversial for solo players—in part because a major expansion feature is locked behind it.

news
A Guardian attacking a Vex Hydra.
Bungie's surprise showcase did not announce Destiny 3, but Destiny 2 is getting vampire hunting, the return of the Dreadnaught, and something codenamed 'Frontiers' in 2025

By Phil Savage Published

news A fan favourite location is coming back.

news
Statue pouring sand over a pyramid
Civilization 7 exists, but if you want to know more than that you're going to have to wait for its full reveal in August

By Phil Savage Published

news We know it will be released next year, but precious little else.

news
The Witness surrounded by veiled figures.
The Final Shape's campaign is a major return to form for Destiny 2, and we'd all be saying it delivered if the servers had held it together

By Phil Savage Published

Getting In Shape Launch day woes aside, Destiny 2 is back with a campaign that rivals The Witch Queen.

Getting In Shape
Characters point spears at a distant Titan.
Guild Wars 2's next expansion will add its first new raid in five years, as well as 'the most player-friendly housing system in an MMORPG'

By Phil Savage Published

news Janthir Wilds will release on August 20.

news
Cayde-6 pointing a gun
Destiny 2: The Final Shape's wild new reality-bending Strike mission is full of lava, lost cities and dragon guts

By Phil Savage Published

Heart of the Matter We're heading into the Traveler for the end of Destiny's first decade.

Heart of the Matter
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