Latest articles by Fraser Brown
Billy the pickpocket is the unluckiest man in Crimson Desert
News Oh Billy, will you never learn?
Crimson Desert's less than ideal launch is a distant memory as it hits the 4 million sales milestone
News Kliff's raking in the big bucks.
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance review – A 4-hour slog that teases a bleak future for the beloved series
Tarnished legacy A stake through the heart.
The consensus is that Crimson Desert has terrible storytelling—it's not true
The Devil told me so The Crimson Desert defender has logged on.
Larian publishing boss takes some spicy swipes at Crimson Desert, calling it a 'cynical amalgamation of borrowed mechanics'—but I think he might be the cynical one this time
News Is it really cynical to take great ideas from other games, or is it just how you design a good game?
Jack Black would be up for playing a 'portly American' if there's another live-action Yakuza movie: 'Sega, give me a jingle'
News He's really trying to rack up those videogame adaptation credits.
Street Fighter 6's new DLC character is into incest, and somehow Capcom is making the whole thing even weirder
News Apparently the problem is that we're confused, and not that Alex is married to his adoptive sister and second cousin.
Crimson Desert is great because it's a total mess, not in spite of it, and I hope Pearl Abyss doesn't change too much
Kliffhanger Let's get weird.
Players are starting to click with Crimson Desert as it climbs up to Very Positive on Steam and reaches 3 million sales—but Pearl Abyss promises more improvements
News It launched to Mixed reviews, but it's talked players around.
You can play Peter Molyneux's new god game, Masters of Albion, before it launches in early access
News All you need is Discord and a bit of luck.
The great RPG debate: Defined playable characters or blank slates?
Geralt vs Goralt Do you prefer predefined heroes like Geralt, or do you want to make your own from scratch?
Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
Bargain Dates, biggest discounts, tips, annual Steam sale dates, and more.
Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal: PC Gamer reacts... not wholly positively
So... DLSS 5 This has been one of the most controversial reveals of an Nvidia technology I can remember, and people have a lot of thoughts.
Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft
News "We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."
Fortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic's money-printing battle royale, is going free-to-play after nearly a decade
News Save the world on a tight budget.
Facepunch is 'talking to people' about a Rust movie: 'We definitely had interest'
News The Adventures of John Rust.
Slay the Spire 2 dev hates microtransactions, even though players would definitely pay for them: 'A lot of our players threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release'
News Mega Crit's got a lot of willpower.
Tabletop gaming saved videogame RPGs
Dungeon Master RPGs have evolved by embracing their history, and we're incredibly lucky that they did.
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse isn't a roguelike, says Konami, despite it being made by the 2 studios behind Dead Cells
News Back to basics.
It's only March, but I'm calling it: Esoteric Ebb is 2026's best RPG and the first worthy successor to Disco Elysium
Clerical error It's more than D&D Disco Elysium, but it's also absolutely D&D Disco Elysium.
Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director says Ubisoft 'became very allergic' to new games, which contributed to a 'talent drain'
News Alex Hutchinson diagnoses the downward trajectory of his former employer.
The director of the first Assassin's Creed with naval battles found it 'bizarre' to watch Skull and Bones' agonisingly long development, because it was 'essentially the same stuff re-shipping 14 years after we made it'
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