Fraser Brown

Fraser Brown

Online Editor

Fraser is the UK online editor and has actually met The Internet in person. With over a decade of experience, he's been around the block a few times, serving as a freelancer, news editor and prolific reviewer. Strategy games have been a 30-year-long obsession, from tiny RTSs to sprawling political sims, and he never turns down the chance to rave about Total War or Crusader Kings. He's also been known to set up shop in the latest MMO and likes to wind down with an endlessly deep, systemic RPG. These days, when he's not editing, he can usually be found writing features that are 1,000 words too long or talking about his dog.

Latest articles by Fraser Brown

Manor Lords promo art - knight on horseback looking at a medieval village in the distance, viewed from behind
CEO of Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse wants it to be 'a positive influence and a great company for 100 plus years' by fighting AI and treating devs ethically

By Fraser Brown Published

From the horse's mouth The indie publisher keeps striking gold, but CEO Tim Bender is still "fundamentally unambitious", prizing stability and ethics over massive growth and profits.

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From the horse's mouth
The creepiest guy leans in front of an NPC mid-conversation in Starfield.
Skyrim's co-lead designer says Starfield's main problem is that it never fully cohered as a game: 'It was a releasable game, but it wasn't the best'

By Fraser Brown Published

News And the reception was what he expected.

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News
Sitting on a cart
Skyrim's co-lead designer was building real-time horse and cart travel and a dynamic civil war: 'We were pretty disappointed that didn't ship'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Kurt Kuhlmann was co-lead on Skyrim and Bethesda's Elder Scrolls loremaster.

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News
The player gives a thumbs up to someone in a small red car
My Winter Car is a 'dangerous, depressing and tiring' life sim, and the developer doesn't want you to play it unless you've mastered the infamously tricky My Summer Car

By Fraser Brown Published

News Don't expect to have much fun.

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News
Tavern Keeper GOTY Personal Pick
Tavern Keeper is the management sim of my dreams, and the best thing I've played in early access in 2025

By Fraser Brown Published

🏆 Where everybody knows your name.

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Grounded 2 early access
In a year where Obsidian released a pair of RPGs, its best game was an early access survival romp

By Fraser Brown Published

Park ranger It turns out that a small community garden offers more compelling adventures than a magical island or a capitalist nightmare.

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Park ranger
Spider-Men doing the Spider-Man Points meme in Marvel Rivals
Marvel Rivals wants to go big for 2026, and the team has 'already planned more than a year ahead'

By Fraser Brown Published

News "2025 was more of a warm-up."

News
Super Fantasy Kingdom - A king stands in front of a castle
Roguelite city builder Super Fantasy Kingdom has been a big success, and now its developer can afford a luxury he's always dreamed of: 'A real winter jacket'

By Fraser Brown Published

News At least he's cosy now.

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News
The likelihood of another Battlefield: Bad Company is slim, but its former lead designer thinks Battlefield boss Vince Zampella could make it happen: 'He knows his sh*t'

By Fraser Brown Published

News "I would like to play it and see what they wind up doing."

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News
The best horror games on PC

By Jody Macgregor Last updated

UPDATED These are the best horror games you can play on PC.

UPDATED
Battlefield liked to 'take the p*ss' out of Call of Duty, but it was a 'very healthy rivalry' that pushed DICE to do its own thing

By Fraser Brown Published

News "You push yourself to do stuff maybe you wouldn't do if they were not there."

News
With Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Creative Assembly is resurrecting a 16-year-old experiment, which didn't exactly go to plan last time

By Fraser Brown Published

War never changes From Empire to Imperium.

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War never changes
Manor Lords promo art - knight on horseback looking at a medieval village in the distance, viewed from behind
CEO of Manor Lords and Against the Storm publisher says publishers should not be trying to 'break even at the expense of developers' and should be willing to take a loss because they can afford to 'spread the risk'

By Fraser Brown Published

News "Large corporate entities that can absorb risk should expect some losses to be balanced out by other gains."

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News
Metal: Hellsinger
Funcom may have closed down Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders, but its co-founder and Battlefield vet David Goldfarb says it's not over yet: 'We're working on the 2.0 version of The Outsiders, so we're not dead'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Down but not out.

News
PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025

By Phil Savage Published

The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.

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The Gotys
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is totally real, so we've created a wishlist to send to the Emperor

By Fraser Brown Published

Big and weird We have demands.

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Big and weird
Rome art featuring Roman troops
The TV show based on Total War was tricking us all along: 'It's kind of embarrassing, but it's television'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Don't believe what you see.

News
Total War: Medieval 3 trailer
Creative Assembly has been busy—Total War: Medieval 3 is coming, along with more Warhammer DLC and another game that will be revealed next week, 'marking the beginning of an exciting new era'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Strategy Santa is in a giving mood.

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News
Ashes of the Singularity 2 first gameplay
Here's our exclusive first peek at massive-scale RTS Ashes of the Singularity 2 in action, and would you look at the size of this thing

By Fraser Brown Published

News This is one big lad (the lad is a war).

News
Character reading a book and chewing bubblegum
All I've bought this Cyber Monday are 2 boring ethernet cables and this exceptional comic book bundle

By Fraser Brown Published

Cyber Monday My tablet is gonna see a lot of use over the next year.

Cyber Monday
Close up of Phyre
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 didn't sell as well as Paradox expected, and the publisher is taking the blame: 'The responsibility lies fully with us'

By Fraser Brown Published

News But this shouldn't affect the planned DLC.

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News
V eating popcorn
Poll: Should RPGs always provide a transmog system, or should we be forced to live with our fashion crimes?

By Fraser Brown Published

Fit check Are you OK with being the worst-dressed hero?

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Fit check
Operator control system
Xenopurge turns Aliens into a stressful desk job and somehow manages to capture the movie perfectly

By Fraser Brown Published

Office space Grab a cup of coffee and let's go alien hunting.

Office space
Three jacketed figures look down into the camera in Shadows of Doubt.
The world's busiest toilet temporarily made detective sim Shadows of Doubt a murder-free zone: 'You can't always legislate for the fact that everyone's going to need a wee at midnight'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Finally, a way to stop murders from happening.

News
If you own any Total War: Warhammer game, you'll get the best part of Total War: Warhammer 3 for free on December 4

By Fraser Brown Published

News Everyone's getting Immortal Empires.

News
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