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

A skeleton doing a trick on a skateboard
Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam: 'I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Put some shades on a skateboarding skeleton, sell a million copies.

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News
A man with purple hair and face tattoos poses for a mugshot in the GTA 6 trailer.
A TikToker flew all the way to Scotland to harass and yell at Rockstar developers about a non-existent GTA 6 delay: 'I'm sick and tired of waiting for the answers'

By Fraser Brown Published

News There are so many better reasons to visit my nation's capital—and they don't involve harassment.

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News
World of Warcraft: Midnight's collector's edition lets you own the Dark Heart, but please don't use this void relic to resurrect an all-devouring shadow god

By Fraser Brown Published

News Seems like a risky collector's item.

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Image of starship voyager from game Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
The Star Trek: Voyager survival game will let you murder Tuvix all over again—so I don't really care that it looks a little rough

By Fraser Brown Published

News Can we kill off Neelix too? One can only hope.

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News
Pax Dei, the fantasy alternative to EVE Online, is leaving early access and introducing a subscription model that sounds a lot like paying a landlord

By Fraser Brown Published

News And a lot of the community doesn't think it's ready.

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News
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Code Vein 2's release date reveal means you'll be starting 2026 off by hunting down vampires (but don't call them vampires), which really should be a new year tradition

By Fraser Brown Published

News Also, there's time travel.

News
Mount Fuji
The Xbox TGS stream's most exciting reveal was just a bunch of licence plates, teasing Forza Horizon 6's Japanese setting

By Fraser Brown Published

News It's coming next year.

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Nioh 3 is coming to PC and PS5 in February, according to an Amazon slip up

By Fraser Brown Published

News We expect it to be officially confirmed during Sony's State of Play at TGS.

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X-COM's creator wants to make a sequel to his spiritual successor, despite it being a 'very difficult project'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Phoenix Point could rise again.

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News
A man in a gas mask and hood
Stalker 2's 1.6 update brings with it nighttime fun and a bit of heat

By Fraser Brown Published

News Strap on some goggles, but watch out for burning orbs.

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Here's what to expect from the World of Warcraft: Midnight alpha, kicking off on October 2

By Fraser Brown Published

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The Subnautica 2 lawsuit is getting even messier, with Krafton doing a massive U-turn, confusing both the ousted founders' lawyer and the judge: 'This is a little bit bewildering'

By Fraser Brown Published

News One of its key claims, that the founders were terminated because they wanted to release Subnautica 2 before it was ready, has been dropped.

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News
Even in early access, Endless Legend 2 might already be my favourite 4X game—and I've played a lot of them

By Fraser Brown Published

Worth the wait The spirit of Alpha Centauri lives on.

Worth the wait
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans are no longer DLC clans: 'Lasombra and Toreador belong in the base game, so that is what we are doing'

By Fraser Brown Published

News The Premium Edition is getting some replacement DLC instead.

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News
The creator of X-COM isn't worried about old fans not vibing with his new game: 'It's successful for people who have maybe not played any strategy at all'

By Fraser Brown Published

News There's little overlap between X-COM and Chip 'N Clawz.

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Fata Deum is an early access god sim inspired by Black & White, but I wish I was just playing Black & White instead

By Fraser Brown Published

God of Bore It purposefully evokes the best games in the genre, but it's got a long way to go before it can match them.

God of Bore
This theme park sim based on a 30-year-old sci-fi movie is so much better than it has a right to be

By Fraser Brown Published

Ack ack ack The red planet becomes a go-to destination in Mars Attracts.

Ack ack ack
The creator of Dead Space 'would love to make an Alien game'

By Fraser Brown Published

News But he'd want complete creative control.

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Deus Ex's influence on Elon Musk 'may be its longest, worst legacy,' says its writer

By Fraser Brown Published

News The world's wealthiest man just doesn't get it.

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Former Call of Duty director stopped making foreign countries the enemy because he wanted 'to go to these countries' without needing a bodyguard

By Fraser Brown Published

News "I don't want to have this problem anymore."

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News
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We almost got a third-person horror Call of Duty set in Vietnam with 'stuff you've never seen before', but instead we just got more Modern Warfare

By Fraser Brown Published

News Sledgehammer's first game was killed so Modern Warfare 3 could be finished.

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News
Kevin Spacey in Advanced Warfare
Kevin Spacey got 'a little weird' on the set of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: 'We all had to fake laugh'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Spacey played the villainous CEO of the Atlas Corporation.

News
Phyre, the Elder Kindred from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, stares intently at something in the distance, a frown writ into their forehead.
Paradox is 'making adjustments' to Bloodlines 2's Toreador and Lasombra DLC after the entirely predictable backlash

By Fraser Brown Published

News The publisher has backtracked on paid DLC plans before, and "more information" is coming "as soon as possible".

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News
Dawn of War 4 Gamescom screenshots
Dawn of War 4 developer King Art knows what you all really want: 'Overwhelmingly, it's singleplayer content and the campaign'

By Fraser Brown Published

News It's always been this way, but the allure of StarCraft-level esports is powerful.

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News
Phyre as a Toreador
I've played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game

By Fraser Brown Published

Love and war They're ready to go and fit into the game perfectly, so why are they being sold separately?

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Love and war
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