Jody Macgregor

Jody Macgregor

Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

Latest articles by Jody Macgregor

Izoi - A zoi kneels down to fix a broken refrigerator while another Zoi watches
Samsung's AI fridges have broken

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Oops.

News
A shirtless man and two women in not much pose dramatically
The next retro games coming to Steam are a pair of extremely 1990s run-and-gunners where Spanish Goku fights mutants

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Thunder Hoop and its sequel sure are something.

News
The Steam logo put through a fisheye lens effect
What's in Steam's global top sellers this week?

By Jody Macgregor Published

It's the top of the pops.

Games
A skaven player points spiked brass knuckles at the camera
Between 70 and 80% of Blood Bowl 3 games were solo

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Improving the new version's AI is a priority.

News
Skyrim's main quest is better than most of its sidequests

By Jody Macgregor Published

The Elder Scrolls
Vault Boy winks in black and white
Tim Cain: 'Among other things that Steve Jackson Games didn't like about Fallout was Vault Boy'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It wasn't just the violence that Fallout's original partner took issue with.

News
The Dragonborn looking up and shouting
8 strong Elder Scrolls opinions: With over 2,500 combined hours (and not all as stealth archers), we shout at each other about Skyrim, Morrowind, and Oblivion

By Christopher Livingston, Ted Litchfield, Harvey Randall, Jody Macgregor, Joshua Wolens Published

Thu'um Call Five editors Mid-Vur-Share their thoughts for the past and future of the series.

20 Comments
Thu'um Call
On the left, workers in Frostpunk, on the right, a warlock summons magical fire in Diablo 2: Resurrected
The Industrial Revolution is the reason RPGs have area-of-effect spells: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™

By Jody Macgregor Published

🔗 Spl-ASH damage.

🔗
The Black Pyramid's web of unlockable upgrades
Waiter, there's some Path of Exile in my Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC

By Jody Macgregor Published

Such is the PoE My compliments to the chef.

Such is the PoE
A statue of a devil lady outside the Devil's Luck casino
Nighthawks review: A novel vampire RPG that's also a vampire novel's worth of great writing

By Jody Macgregor Published

Wordsworth Postcards from Bat Country.

7 Comments
Wordsworth
Gabe Newell refuses to say 3
Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell's advice to devs still holds up

By Jody Macgregor Published

News There can be a fine line between a malicious hack and a legend.

12 Comments
News
Vee, a robot with huge hair, sits in a train carriage
The best sex games on PC that aren't garbage

By Jody Macgregor Last updated

Let's put the S in NSFW Sex games that actually don't suck.

Let's put the S in NSFW
Ultramarines with a dreadnought
Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Alien: Isolation 2, Modern Warfare 4, and more will be playable ahead of release at PAX Australia next month

By Jody Macgregor Published

News I'm gonna start lining up now.

News
Liliana the Faultless, surrounded by acolytes, with a broken mirror showing her necromantic twin
Magic: The Gathering's next big crossover is with itself

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Reality Fracture introduces the cast of Magic to a mirror, and they don't love what they see.

News
Concept art from Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Battle.net for some reason, and Geralt will be in Diablo 4

By Jody Macgregor Published

News I don't know either.

13 Comments
News
Beneath a Steel Sky intro
Beneath a Steel Sky review (1994)

By Gary Whitta Published

Cobberpunk Revisiting Revolution Software's dystopian adventure.

9 Comments
Cobberpunk
A space marine's closed helmet reflects the oncoming zerg
Why is Blizzard still announcing games years ahead of release? 'We want to convey confidence in some of our biggest bets coming forward'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Maybe it's the fact it sounds like a year from the opening crawl of a sci-fi movie, but 2030 sure feels a long way off.

10 Comments
News
An ork stompa marches across a battlefield, a regiment of orks beside it
Playing RTS with a controller? Total War: Warhammer 40,000 dev says it 'really does work' in their game: 'I think we've landed in a really solid spot'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News But how will we press "J" to make a unit about-face?

13 Comments
News
Hawks rolls his eyes while Runa talks to a hologram off-screen, illuminated by its blue glow
Star Wars Zero Company gets much-needed first patch so you won't miss shots with a 100% chance to hit any more

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It should be less prone to crashing too.

16 Comments
News
A crowd of people at PAX Australia
Attendees will be able to check out a demo of The Witcher 3 DLC Songs of the Past behind closed doors at PAX Australia

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It's not that far away, come on.

News
White House Arcade - Build the Wall
The Tetris Company confirms it had nothing to do with the White House's racist rip-off: 'we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Also, "We take copyright infringement very seriously."

News
Mass Effect 4 teaser image
Ex-BioWare designer says doom and gloom about the next Mass Effect is overstated: 'I think that they can do it'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "I think BioWare can do it if we just leave them alone to do what they do best."

24 Comments
News
A pink-haired woman disguised in sunglasses, hat, and trenchcoat waits to be served in a record store
The best indie games on PC

By Jody Macgregor Last updated

Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.

Small but mighty
Sophia holds an ancient sword into the light
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review – Spin-off ditches the hordes of vermin to become pirate-themed Tomb Raider

By Jody Macgregor Published

Lara Corsair Rat's all, folks.

10 Comments
Lara Corsair
Optimus Prime, the Autobot badge beside him, points to the horizon
Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime in The Transformers, dies aged 85

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The prolific voice actor also appeared in Knight Rider, Gremlins, King Kong, Crystal Crisis, and plenty more.

News
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Archives

Other versions of this page are available with specific content for the following regions: