Andrea Shearon

Andrea Shearon

Evergreen Writer

Andrea has been covering games for nearly a decade, picking up bylines at IGN, USA Today, Fanbyte, and Destructoid before joining the PC Gamer team in 2025. She's got a soft spot for older RPGs and is willing to try just about anything with a lovey-dovey "I can fix them" romance element. Her weekly to-do always includes a bit of MMO time, endlessly achievement hunting and raiding in Final Fantasy 14. Outside of those staples, she's often got a few survival-crafting games on rotation and loves a good scare in co-op horror games.

Latest articles by Andrea Shearon

PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025

By Phil Savage Published

The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.

108 Comments
The Gotys
An elf-like character in Ashes of Creation
Ashes of Creation early access launch times and release date

By Andrea Shearon Published

🕥 And when the MMORPG fully commits to Steam.

🕥
A player character holding a pickaxe in front of a fire in The Forge
The Forge—Tips for beginner miners, crafting recipes, and picking your next equipment upgrades

By Andrea Shearon Published

⛏️ Because pickaxe upgrades get pricey, and some recipes call for a calculator.

⛏️
League of Legends Dr. Mundo art
League of Legends just got WASD controls after 16 years, and you can probably guess how smoothly the rollout's going

By Ana Diaz Published

News WASD controls have sparked controversy with the playerbase, though they haven't broken the game balance the way some expected.

News
A Roblox player with long black and green hair holding a pickaxe in The Forge. There's shiny stars all around her as she uncovers a Stone.
How to get Stone in The Forge

By Andrea Shearon Published

Forge Ahead Grab your Pickaxe and get to minin'.

Forge Ahead
Whiskerwood key art with a royally dressed cat offering a tiny slice of cheese to a sad mouse with its hand extended
Whiskerwood looks like an adorable game of cat and mouse, but in reality it's a brutal city builder where my grossly incompetent governance never goes unpunished for long

By Andrea Shearon Published

Don't let its adorable mousy colonies fool you.

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City Builder
Beat, the pink-haired protagonist of Unbeatable, looking confused and staring straight at the camera against a blue background
The PC game releases we're most excited about in December

By Andrea Shearon last updated

📅 We're ending the year with a handful of possible gems and more time for the 2025 backlog.

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A 99 Nights in the Forest player standing with her pet wolf and bunny in the dark. She's also holding the Taming Flute.
How to upgrade the Taming Flute in 99 Nights in the Forest

By Andrea Shearon Published

Wild Things Get your own wolf pack.

Wild Things
The black and grey wolf standing in the snow from 99 Nights in the Forest
Every animal you can tame in 99 Nights in the Forest

By Andrea Shearon Published

Domesticated It's a mammoth undertaking.

Domesticated
99 Nights in the Forest Kraken Kid sitting with their arms over their legs, they have a Kraken-themed hat on and their eyes are swirls
How to find the missing kids in 99 Nights in the Forest

By Andrea Shearon Published

Deernapped Missing: Dino Kid, Squid Kid, Kraken Kid, and Koala Kid

Deernapped
mass effect
Everything we know about the next Mass Effect game so far

By Morgan Park last updated

LIARA? Mass Effect is now BioWare's main focus with a smaller team following layoffs in 2025.

LIARA?
The Sole Survivor in the series' iconic blue vault suit as he stands and talks to a robotic entity off-screen.
Another Fallout 4 update fixes performance issues while leaving modders angry, but it doesn't have to be this way

By Andrea Shearon Published

News A little version control goes a long way.

News
Three Rust players all holding automatic weapons with pieced-together, falling apart armor
Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat'

By Andrea Shearon Published

News So much for my Steam Machine plans.

93 Comments
News
A Rust naked running on a beach holding a rock. He's only wearing boxers and seems to be fleeing someone shooting at him.
Rust's 'Pivot or Die' update was meant to shake up the meta, but it's a nightmare for solo survivors that leaves me no choice but to die

By Andrea Shearon Published

Send Help Is 'pivot' code for 'join a clan'?

10 Comments
Send Help
Escape from Tarkov 1.0 screenshot - A man with a beard, dressed in camo, sitting on a stool in the woods with his gun beside him.
Escape from Tarkov launch times and release date for 1.0

By Andrea Shearon Published

Raid Ready It's been a long wait, but here's when you can play Escape from Tarkov 1.0 in your timezone.

Raid Ready
Three Rust players all holding automatic weapons with pieced-together, falling apart armor
This Rust 'Blood Club' lures an entire server inside before pulling the literal floor out from under the party and exploding

By Andrea Shearon Published

News I love this song.

News
Two Phasmophobia players standing outside of the Nell's Diner map sign as it glows in the dark
Nell's Diner is the best Phasmophobia has ever looked, setting up Tanglewood for a promising rework: 'We're gonna make sure we do it justice'

By Andrea Shearon Published

Dine In The ghost will take two creams, no sugar.

Dine In
Concept art for Welcome To The Dark Place with a shadowy silhouette of a person against a dark purple background, there are more people in the distance.
Welcome To The Dark Place: All the key details on the Lethal Company developer's solo horror adventure

By Dominic Tarason last updated

Become enlightened Don't go expecting another multiplayer mega-hit, as solo dev Zeekerss is returning to his roots.

Become enlightened
Mio Amakura from Fatal Frame 2 remake with the camera zooming in on her face as she looks surprised
For the first time since 2012, we're getting a new Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and Resident Evil within a 6 month window

By Andrea Shearon Published

News The wait was even longer for some of us.

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News
Rust keyart of a player wearing street sign armor and holding a map
You haven't truly experienced PC gaming until you've done these 8 things

By Andrea Shearon Published

Relatable If you know, you know.

51 Comments
Relatable
Black Ops 7 soldier holding a gun in the dark
The PC game releases we're most excited about in November

By Andrea Shearon last updated

📅 If Black Ops isn't your thing, there's a whole slew of early access games on the way.

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📅
A Rust NPC holding a gun while the player wields a rock
My return to Rust is going well, other than my freakish Guns N' Roses-loving neighbor shooting me every time I try to hang string lights on my roof

By Andrea Shearon Published

Lit up The experience I needed to keep me playing this time.

Lit up
The Stareweed plant from 99 Nights in the Forest with all three of its eyes open
How to get Stareweed in 99 Nights in the Forest

By Andrea Shearon Published

All-seeing Potion recipes call for a staring contest.

All-seeing
A player wearing a green plastic suit and facemask with a blue wash gun in PowerWash Simulator 2
PowerWash Simulator 2 review

By Andrea Shearon Published

Rinse and repeat New grime-fighting upgrades tweak the formula just enough.

Rinse and repeat
A billboard from PowerWash Simulator 2 with bright colored animals on it and a bit of dirt
PowerWash Simulator 2 introduces a new tool that makes washing mud from a billboard more enjoyable than ever

By Andrea Shearon Published

Squeaky Clean It is also the only time I've washed a billboard, but never mind that.

Squeaky Clean
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