Jake Tucker

Jake Tucker

PC Gaming Show Editorial Director

Jake Tucker is the editorial director of the PC Gaming Show but has worked as a journalist and editor at sites like NME, TechRadar, MCV and many more. He collects vinyl, likes first-person shooters and turn-based tactics games and hates writing bios. Jake currently lives in London, and is building a comprehensive list of the best places to eat in the city.

Latest articles by Jake Tucker

GTA 6 marketing stunt reveals none of our UK editors have heard of the Miami Heat

By Ted Litchfield Published

ball is life I don't even know ball but I feel like I'm losing my mind.

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ball is life
Dust till Dawn key art
Dust till Dawn is a horror-themed clean-'em-up with music from Silent Hill's composer

By Jake Tucker Published

News Clean freaks.

News
Beautiful freaks of the desert key art
Beautiful Freaks of the Desert is a speedrunning FPS flipping the middle finger at all things data center

By Jake Tucker Published

News A vibey trailer announced the game for the first time at the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct

News
Palworld - Trainer
For years, survival games have convinced us that chopping down 400 trees is somehow part of the fantasy—Palworld proves them wrong

By Jake Tucker Published

Pallin' around With a little help from my Pals.

Pallin' around
Key art for Empulse.
Empulse's frantic movement and giant mechs are giving me serious Xbox 360-era FPS nostalgia

By Jake Tucker Published

news This new wall-running shooter ends its trailer with a man belting a mech with a sledgehammer, and frankly I'm sold

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A jet closes in on a mech while dodging laser fire.
Wind Runners turned me into a wannabe fighter pilot in 30 seconds

By Jake Tucker Published

News I am a leaf on the wind.

News
Key art for 2 Fights 2 Spaces.
My favourite card-battling action brawler just got a sequel, and you can play it right now

By Jake Tucker Published

News Join us at the 2027 PC Gaming Show for Tight Spaces: Tokyo Drift.

News
Key art for Happy Bastards.
Poor Gary: Happy Bastards' PC Gaming Show trailer is a masterclass in delegation

By Jake Tucker Published

news Finally, my first opportunity to use the word "bastard" in a headline.

news
Key art for Company of Heroes: Definitive Edition showing three soldiers, one standing in front and two behind, either side holding rifles.
Company of Heroes is back, and so is my urge to ruin friendships

By Jake Tucker Published

News Relic's classic World War 2 RTS is getting a remake to celebrate for its 20th birthday

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Mechabellum is a conversation you should be having

By Jake Tucker Published

Fighting Words Them's fighting words.

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Fighting Words
The official splashscreen for Steam, showing the logo at the centre and various games as horizontal tiles in the background.
9 big things Steam needs to improve in 2026

By Rory Norris Published

Steam Wishlist Hey Steam, we know you don't have much competition, but there's still a lot you should do.

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Steam Wishlist
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
The PC Gaming Show Most Wanted 2025 logo from its YouTube channel, featuring the date highlighted on December 4 and the "powered by Xbox Game Pass" logo at the bottom
How to watch the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Powered by Xbox Game Pass on December 4

By Jake Tucker Published

News We're about to show off new information for 70 games, here's how to come along for the ride.

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News
Escape From Tarkov tutorial LEDX - Operator aiming a gun
There's a valuable LEDX you can grab in Escape From Tarkov's tutorial—and it's lost forever if you don't

By Jake Tucker Published

Strong start Make sure not to miss this valuable item your first time around.

Strong start
PC Gamer Top 100 2025
The top 100 PC games

By Phil Savage Published

Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.

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Class of 2025
Battlefield 6 Destruction Receipts event: Soldiers running away from a collapsing building.
Battlefield 6 dev says its destruction tech is so delicious for one simple reason: 'The only magic trick is that we're not on the PS4 or Xbox One any more'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Also hit the button marked 'say it's like Battlefield 3 and 4' once more with feeling.

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News
EA Sports FC 26
EA Sports FC 26 review: A game of two halfs

By Jake Tucker Published

Hat-trick Truly the beautiful game, but it makes plenty of unforced errors

Hat-trick
the words 'PC Gamer presents PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct' are displayed in front of a blurred, night-time, neon-soaked cityscape
How To Watch the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2025

By Jake Tucker Published

news We're showing off over 30 games, in addition to bringing you interviews from the floor at Tokyo Game Show.

news
Windows event image with Gripes Week logo in the top right corner
It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect

By Dave James Published

Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.

Gripes week
character wearing helmet with dozens of wires attached like a sea creature
‘We could go from a shooter to a platformer to a horror theme’: How stepping away from Payday 2’s real-world framing has helped Den of Wolves turn high-stakes heisting on its head

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 The PC Gaming Show went behind the scenes with 10 Chambers for an exclusive chat at its Stockholm HQ

PCGS 2025
A chemist at a drug-mixing table
Schedule 1 is my favourite co-op game of the year because it lets me bully my friends into doing the hard parts for me

By Jake Tucker Published

Joint effort This empire-builder lets everyone do the things they love.

Joint effort
Den of Wolves screenshot
After playing a Den of Wolves heist, I have high hopes for the cyberpunk take on Payday 2

By Jake Tucker Published

mind heist The kinetic co-op heister comes from GTFO developer 10 Chambers and its former Payday architects.

mind heist
Performers acting as zombies are seen on a train coach during the "Train to Apocalypse" event as part of the Pandora Box Artmire Festival 2024 held to attract commuters to ride the city's rapid transit system LRT (light rapid transit), in Jakarta on July 11, 2024. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP) (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images)
Venerable browser-based MMO Urban Dead is closing this week after a 20-year run, not with a bang but with a whimper

By Jake Tucker Published

news "No grand finale. No final catastrophe. No helicopter evac. Make your peace or your final stand."

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Killing Floor 3 official screenshot
Killing Floor 3 is an unapologetic throwback to the gory days of the horde shooter

By Jake Tucker Published

Zed's dead New tech and some cool new additions bulk out a surprisingly old-school blaster.

Zed's dead
The protagonist of Sniper Elite: Resistance fires a weapon while carrying a body over his shoulder.
Sniper Elite: Resistance review – A fun but inessential addition

By Jake Tucker Published

Punching Nazis Rebellion's stealthy snipe 'em up series continues to deliver pulpy thrills.

Punching Nazis
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