Shaun Prescott

Shaun Prescott

Australian Editor

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 close up of the Xbox button on an Xbox controller
Leaked Xbox Elite 3 controller images show at least one oddball addition, but it'll struggle to compete in a radically changed market

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Gamepads are better, and cheaper, than they've ever been.

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Key art for Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls 2 path tracing mod is now available for all, and yes, it inevitably makes the game harder

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Finally, a reason to use Prism Stones.

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Katsuhiro Harada holds a fist up
After his shock retirement last year, legendary former Tekken boss has landed at one of Japan's biggest fighting game publishers

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Katsuhiro Harada is now the CEO of VS Studio.

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Marathon: A close-up of the Destroyer shell looking up slightly at something out of shot.
NBN price hikes are coming on July 1, but you can delay them by a year if you act fast

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Introductory offers are still your friend.

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A red racecar in Forza Horizon 6 idling on a racetrack in front of the massive metal feet of an otherwise invisible mecha.
Steam week in review: Forza Horizon is the last truly mainstream multiplatform racing series

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 10.

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Full of Steam
The Steam Controller on a desk during a teardown, with various parts removed.
Here's when the Steam Controller will be available again in Australia, and I hope you like being awake at 3am

By Shaun Prescott Published

News It's time to start feeling anxious.

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(L-R) Ludi Lin as “Liu Kang”, Mehcad Brooks as “Jackson ‘Jax’ Briggs”, Jessica McNamee as “Sonya Blade”, and Karl Urban as “Johnny Cage” in New Line Cinema’s “Mortal Kombat II,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
The producer of the new Mortal Kombat film is annoyed that film reviewers are appraising it as a film

By Shaun Prescott Published

News This is not a game.

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A collage of characters from Wizardry 5
Atari just bought the rights to the big daddy of PC RPGs, and a reissue campaign is afoot

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News The first five Wizardry games have been rescued from obscurity.

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Mina the Hollower trailer still
My most-anticipated but frequently delayed Zelda-like is finally releasing later this month after 6 years in development

By Shaun Prescott Published

News It's not 2023, but it's still releasing before the apocalypse.

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Key art for Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance
This month's Humble Choice is offering one of the best turnbased sicko RPGs of the century for an all time low $15—plus you get 7 other games including Diablo 4

By Shaun Prescott Published

News There's never been a better time to add hundreds of hours to your shame pile.

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Masters of Albion running on a Steam Deck OLED
Steam Deck verification criteria continues to confuse as Masters of Albion is marked Unsupported, despite devs considering it 'fully optimised for handheld'

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Where is the threshold for adequate Steam Deck performance? No one seems to know.

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The Steam Controller on a desk during a teardown, with various parts removed.
Steam Controller is sold out in most regions, but Australia—you still have a chance (Update: Too late it's gone)

By Shaun Prescott Last updated

News How long will it last? Probably not long.

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A party of robot cowboys brandish their guns in Far Far West.
Steam week in review: Another online shooter winds down weeks after launch, as robot cowboys take over

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 3.

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Full of Steam
Outbound - A car full of campers on the road in their RV
Subnautica 2 is the latest behemoth to mess with other games' launch plans at the last minute: 'we need to dodge the Leviathan'

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Outbound will release three days earlier to avoid decimation.

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Diver looking at a fish
Subnautica 2 now has a firm early access launch date, and it's really soon

By Shaun Prescott Published

News After months of turmoil, the aquatic survival sim is almost upon us.

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A boy with red hair looks angry
The next Tales Of remaster has leaked, and it's probably not what you're expecting

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Bandai Namco's remaster mission continues apace, this time with a deep cut.

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Gabe Newell, Hideo Kojima and Elon Musk
Thanks to Musk v. Altman lawsuit, it's now public record that Gabe Newell emailed Elon Musk to get his pal Hideo Kojima a tour of SpaceX and OpenAI

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The man really wants to go to space.

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A man hides behind waist-high cover as fires rage nearby
A new game in The Division series just shadowdropped on PC, and it's free

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Resurgence was meant to be a mobile exclusive, but here we are.

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The Steam Controller on a desk during a teardown, with various parts removed.
Steam Controller Australian price revealed ahead of May 5 release

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The trackpad-laden gamepad launches next week.

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A man stands in a green field looking a a distant castle
Peter Molyneux has made a proper game again rather than a monetization experiment, and I really hope he finishes it

By Shaun Prescott Published

god bless Masters of Albion is a promising god game, but it's very much in early access at the moment.

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Hands-on with an ROG Xbox Ally handheld gaming PC
Amid tech shortages and price hikes, the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally keeps getting cheaper in Australia

By Shaun Prescott Published

News If you're after a handheld gaming PC you could do worse at this price point.

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Steam store page detail
Australia wants to know how Valve is combating 'extreme-right communities' on Steam

By Shaun Prescott Last updated

News If Valve doesn't comply with a new transparency notice it could face big fines.

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Two figures stand near road signs
Titanium Court review: An eccentric roguelite that's sometimes too random

By Shaun Prescott Published

So random A clever commingling of match-three and autobattler that's smarter and funnier than it is fun.

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Ruins on Earth
PC and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions just dropped around the world—here are the new prices in Australia

By Shaun Prescott Published

News PC Game Pass is now AU$2.50 less per month.

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Buck Bumble, a mutant bee-man, wields some kind of pistol against a black and yellow background.
Buck Bumble, the Nintendo 64 shooter starring a cyborg bumblebee, is almost certainly getting a remake

By Shaun Prescott Published

News All good things come to those who like forgotten mascots ripe for nostalgiabait.

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