Robert Jones

Robert Jones

Print Editor

Rob is editor of PC Gamer magazine and has been PC gaming since the early 1990s, an experience that has left him with a life-long passion for first person shooters, isometric RPGs and point and click adventures. Professionally Rob has written about games, gaming hardware and consumer technology for almost twenty years, and before joining the PC Gamer team was deputy editor of T3.com, where he oversaw the website's gaming and tech content as well its news and ecommerce teams. You can also find Rob's words in a series of other gaming magazines and books such as Future Publishing's own Retro Gamer magazine and numerous titles from Bitmap Books. In addition, he is the author of Super Red Green Blue, a semi-autobiographical novel about games and gaming culture. Rob loves riding motorbikes, too.

Latest articles by Robert Jones

Hitman: Blood Money key art showing Agent 47 staring intently at the viewer
My favourite Hitman game, which has over 10,000 'Very Positive' reviews on Steam, is now less than a buck

By Robert Jones Published

Silence pays My favourite Hitman game, which has over 10,000 'Very Positive' reviews on Steam, is now less than a buck

Silence pays
Fantasy FPS boomer shooter Coven being played showing witch using magic to defeat her foes.
I'm bewitched by this hyper-violent fantasy FPS where you feast upon the brains, eyes, and spleens of your brutalized foes

By Robert Jones Published

Something wicked I'm bewitched by this hyper-violent fantasy FPS where you feast upon the brains, eyes, and spleens of your brutalized foes

Something wicked
PC Gamer magazine issue 404 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

By Robert Jones Published

Magazine Plus: Game of the Year Awards, Arc Raiders, Wizordum, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Alpha Protocol, gaming mice tested, and much more!

Magazine
Red Dead Redemption 2 horse and wagon crashing into telegraph pole and flying through the sky.
Red Dead Redemption 2 modded so wagons and horses travel at supersonic speeds—and the results are ludicrous

By Robert Jones Published

News Red Dead Redemption 2 modded so wagons and horses travel at supersonic speeds—and the results are ludicrous

News
Stalker 2 screen - soldier standing on a structure overlooking the Chornobyl exclusion zone
How two secret Stalker 2 hacks cut my loading time from 5 minutes to 52 seconds and got me in the Zone faster

By Robert Jones Last updated

Throwing shade Remove Unreal Engine 5 shader compilation and intro videos to get playing Stalker 2 faster on PC.

Throwing shade
Horror FPS game FEAR running on PC showing soldiers fighting and explosions
The ultra-violent time-bending horror FPS that always leaves my palms sweaty and heart racing is now less than a buck

By Robert Jones Published

News Feel the fear for 99 cents.

News
Alleria, an elf touched by the void, stands proud among the ruins of a familiar city in World of Warcraft: The War Within.
From extensive lore-friendly research to diabolical wordplay: All the different ways we name our beloved videogame characters

By Mollie Taylor Published

Aliases Making a name for ourselves.

Aliases
PC Gamer magazine issue 403 featuring Path of Exile 2
PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Path of Exile 2

By Robert Jones Published

Magazine Plus: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, No More Room In Hell 2, Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, Empire of the Ants, top mini gaming PCs, and much more!

Magazine
Morrigan, the Witch of the Wilds in the Dragon Age serries, shown wielding magic in front of a Darkspawn.
Morrigan isn't just my favourite Dragon Age character, she's the greatest fantasy RPG companion of all time

By Robert Jones Published

GOAT Following the release of The Veilguard, I'm more certain than ever who the GOAT is

GOAT
Batman the superhero standing in front of Arkham Asylum's gates in the rain.
A huge discount to Batman: Arkham Asylum, the superlative superhero game with over 47,000 'Overwhelmingly Positive' reviews on Steam, is the Halloween gaming treat I've been waiting for

By Robert Jones Published

News The best Batman game ever made is now going for a few bucks.

News
The recent ultra-violent RoboCop FPS that lets you atomise the skulls of criminal scum is going for a fraction of full price

By Robert Jones Published

News I've enjoyed this superb PC gaming experience, so it's easy to recommend

News
As Netflix's The Witcher Season 4 loses another star, once again I feel compelled to tap the 'this no-budget YouTube fan film does the Witcher better' sign

By Robert Jones Last updated

It's not just Henry Cavill not returning in The Witcher Season 4

The Witcher
PC Gamer magazine 402 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

By Robert Jones Published

Magazine Plus: Metal Gear Solid Delta, Stalker 2, Planescape: Torment, Commandos: Origins, PC gaming portables, and much more!

Magazine
AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 4GB PC gaming graphics card in an attic
Can my 14-year-old gaming PC, loaded with the one-time most powerful graphics card in the world, still deliver a good PC gaming experience in 2024?

By Robert Jones Last updated

Rig resurrection It's retro rig rumble in the silicon jungle, round two

Rig resurrection
PC Gamer magazine issue 401 Planet Coaster 2
PC Gamer magazine's new issue, featuring a special collectible lenticular cover, is on sale now: Planet Coaster 2

By Robert Jones Published

Magazine Plus: Civilization 7, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Spectre Divide, Black Desert Online, Baldur's Gate 3, Tactical Breach Wizards, and much more!

Magazine
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions screenshot showing
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, as this video shows, feels like a trial run for its inclusion in Hogwarts Legacy 2

By Robert Jones Published

Muggled Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions currently feels like a sideshow

Muggled
Banjo-Kazooie hero Banjo the bear giving a thumbs up to the viewer
Pinch me! I'm now prepping for my dream PC port of classic Nintendo 64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie as this fan-made decompilation project hits 100%

By Robert Jones Published

News Getting Jiggy with it.

News
Borderlands star Lilith looking across at The Crow
As the Borderlands movie crashes and burns as a box office megaflop, The Crow reboot says hold my beer, outflopping it so hard that it gets branded 'a cynical cash grab' by the original film's director and annihilated by critics

By Robert Jones Published

News So the Borderlands movie is… good now?

News
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a new RPG from Sandfall Interactive, lead character Maelle staring into the darkness
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director speaks about the dark fantasy RPG's stunning Unreal Engine 5 graphics: 'It’s a key foundation for the studio to really look for the latest technology'

By Robert Jones Published

News Lighting the way forward for RPGs

News
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a new turn-based RPG coming in 2025, sees its hero character Maelle attack a demon with a sword
'I love stories where you go and venture into the unknown': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche opens up on the RPG's brilliantly bonkers plot

By Robert Jones Published

News Defeat the Paintress before your number's up

News
New RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's team of protagonists, including Gustave, Lune, and Maelle
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director speaks candidly about the new RPG's respect for Final Fantasy and Persona: 'We are definitely not hiding that there are influences'

By Robert Jones Published

News A western take on the classic turn-based RPG

News
PC Gamer magazine issue 400
PC Gamer magazine's landmark 400th issue is on sale now: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

By Robert Jones Published

Magazine Plus: Splitgate 2, Norland, Zephon, Once Human, Perfect Dark, Anger Foot, The Black Parade, PC Gamer's Top 100 games to play, and much more!

Magazine
Doom 2 with ray tracing enabled showing marine looking at himself in a mirror
Dazzling Doom 2 mod upgrades the legendary FPS with full-blown ray tracing, looks hellishly good

By Robert Jones Published

News Rip and tear, with real-time path tracing

News
Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel and mocap artist Mustapha El Bachiri posing
Baldur's Gate 3's lead mocap choreographer reveals Lae'zel's combat stance is based on a real technique that came to an ancient samurai master in a dream

By Robert Jones Published

News Lae'zel's "elusive" pose came from scriptures about a master developing his ultimate technique.

News
Kingdom Come Deliverance RPG game screenshot showing medieval knights fighting in a battle
Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a 'seriously satisfying RPG' that lets you live the life of a medieval knight in a 'rich and reactive open world', has its price slashed by 83%

By Robert Jones Published

News Raise your sword, for less.

News
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