Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.
Latest articles by Shaun Prescott

A lost Dragon Ball Z fan RPG has resurfaced after mystery user drops it in a seven-year-old forum thread
By Shaun Prescott published
News The internet is still good sometimes.

EOFY sales 2026: Australia's next best opportunity to save on PC gaming gear is here
By Shaun Prescott last updated
EOFY 2026 Doing your tax is annoying, but copping a good bargain is not.

Amazon Prime Day in Australia — This year's major Prime event will kick off July 7
By Shaun Prescott, Ben Mansill last updated
Deals The biggest and best Amazon Prime Day will land next month.

Steam Week in Review: More than 300 games released on Steam last week, and 120 of them had AI disclosures
By Shaun Prescott published
Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending June 14.

Legendary JRPG studio's 23-year shun of the PC has ended: the next Vanillaware game will come to Steam
By Shaun Prescott published
News Vanillaware is getting with the times.

Derelict Star review: The best feeling platformer of the decade so far
By Shaun Prescott published
Ship shape Chunky pixels, a 1:1 aspect ratio, and the best feeling platforming around.

These indie devs are so over algorithms they spent 1,500 hours listening to music on Bandcamp to compile the soundtrack
By Shaun Prescott published
News N Plus Infinity Times Two will keep the niche sonic focus of its predecessor.

N Plus Infinity Times Two is a multiplayer-focused follow-up to one of the best platformers on PC: 'we don't think anyone else on this planet is as crazy about 2D platformers as we are'
By Shaun Prescott published
News Ten years later, the virtually endless N++ gets a multiplayer-centric follow-up.

Valve really isn't budging: Steam Machine and Steam Frame are still 'shipping this summer,' it insists
By Shaun Prescott published
News Despite the dire hardware and component landscape, it's apparently still happening.

The best free PC games
By Shaun Prescott last updated
Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.

The best indie games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.

Silent Hill: Townfall will release in September alongside a handful of other blockbuster games hellbent on avoiding GTA 6
By Shaun Prescott published
News Five heavyweights are taking shelter earlier in the holiday season.

New Ill trailer sets a new bar for videogame ultraviolence, with at least three skull crushings
By Shaun Prescott published
News I hope there weren't any kids watching.

Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and legitimate contenders
By Shaun Prescott published
Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 30.

How to buy a Steam Deck in Australia
By Shaun Prescott last updated
on deck After over two years, Australians can now order the Steam Deck direct.

Steam Deck OLED gets hefty price hike in Australia, but there's still one low cost option unavailable in most of the world
By Shaun Prescott published
News Things are bad, but, importantly, ever-so-slightly not as bad as elsewhere.
'I do think Blow misunderstood what the game is about': Derelict Star made Jonathan Blow rage quit, but it's the most fascinating indie platformer I've played for years
By Shaun Prescott published
star jumps Developer responds to Blow's criticism of his "mutant-freak modern reimagining" of Mario's P-Meter.

Steam Week in Review: Steam is flooded with liminal spaces games and I approve, but I think I've found the best to start with
By Shaun Prescott published
Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 24.

The best NBN plans for gaming in 2026
By Shaun Prescott last updated
need for speed The fastest download speeds, the most generous data caps: these are the best on offer in Australia.

One of the hundreds of Warhammer games is currently free to keep forever on Steam
By Shaun Prescott published
News The series' sole 4X outing is worth investigation.

The new Bubsy is better than I expected, but its hackneyed '90s nostalgia is exhausting
By Shaun Prescott published
Fur crazy This cat has too many lives.

Cairn revolutionizes bragging rights, lets you print a shirt showing your playthrough ascent from an in-game menu
By Shaun Prescott published
News You'll be the talk of the town.
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