Latest articles by Fraser Brown
Don't be fooled by New World's rebranding—Aeternum is not a new game or spiritual successor, it's just an update
News This is fundamentally going to be the same MMO when it launches tomorrow, but with a few tweaks and additions.
Baldur's Gate 3 takes the crown in the PC Gamer Top 100: 'To be named alongside so many of these games today is truly an honour—enough to tug at the heartstrings of even the most cold-hearted Lolth-sworn drow'
News Disco Elysium's impressive run at the top is over after four years.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
The Dark Age of Paradox Interactive: What exactly happened to one of PC gaming's best publishers?
History lesson From disappointing launches to delays to cancellations, it's been a rough time for the Swedish publisher, but it's trying to bounce back.
To mark the launch of Metaphor: ReFantazio, Sega is going to make someone a real-life noble, but there's a catch—you'll be joining the nobility of an illegitimate nation in the North Sea with only one resident
News At least you get a fancy title.
Cities: Skylines 2 launched too early, says Paradox deputy CEO, but early access wouldn't have been a solution: 'A dev team that thinks they're going to have a nicer ride on an early access game, I think fool themselves'
News "The lesson learned is that we should probably not launch that early."
Even after cancelling Life By You, Paradox would make another life sim, 'but in a different way'
News Unlike RPGs, the publisher still sees life sims as a good fit for its pillars.
Paradox wants to get out of the RPG business: 'If Bloodlines 2, God willing, is successful, Bloodlines 3 [will be] done by someone else'
News It's time for someone else to shoulder the World of Darkness curse.
Alien: Isolation is my favourite horror game because it's taken me an entire decade to finish it
Slow and steady Just in time for the anniversary.
Fortnite isn't the future, it's an anomaly, and Tim Sweeney is just another CEO wrongly predicting the death of big singleplayer games
Business as usual Singleplayer and multiplayer games will continue to coexist, just as they always have.
Starfield's Shattered Space expansion hasn't been a smashing success on Steam: 'Less content than any Skyrim DLC'
News It's currently sitting at a Mixed rating, with 60% negative reviews.
Remedy and Tencent enter into a $17m loan agreement that could lead to it owning a larger chunk of the Alan Wake developer
News The studio says the deal will help support its self-publishing endeavours.
Total War: Star Wars and Warhammer 40k could be disasters, but I don't know if I can go back to the historical settings
The War of the Worlds Total War: Warhammer has ruined me.
Phil, buddy, you can't just tease StarCraft fans only to announce that the RTS is coming to Game Pass
News It's just cruel.
I'm beyond excited for Threads of Time, the flashy Chrono Trigger-inspired RPG
News Fight robots and dinosaurs in a quest to restore the Time Knights.
What it feels like to have your Fallout game declared non-canon by Todd Howard: 'It sucked'
News The actual third game in the series didn't get much love from Bethesda.
My most anticipated extraction shooter of the year just launched in early access and the community is now fighting over the importance of regular hydration
News Waterworld.
GreedFall 2 is more than just a eurojank Dragon Age: Origins, and it's ticking a lot of my RPG boxes
Dragon Sage Time to mess up some colonisers.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard keeps reminding me that I'm still angry with BioWare for its crimes against the qunari
Hornery The Dragon Age 2 defender has logged on.
Broken Sword's remaster fixes the mistakes of the Director's Cut and is the perfect reminder that this is still one of gaming's greatest adventures
Coulrophobia Revolution's best adventure game gets the glow up it deserves.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor finally Force-pushes Denuvo out the airlock in patch focused on performance improvements
News Patch 9 is out now.
Yeah, at $700 the PS5 Pro is expensive for a console, but I spent more than double that on my GPU alone
Pro tip "Just get a gaming PC instead" isn't good advice for everyone.
