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

NG Resonance tells Alex D, "The chances of you finding a bug in a globally distributed AI construct are ten billion to one."
Discord will decide which servers to age-gate 'with a combination of automated detection with AI validation and human review'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News What could possibly go wrong?

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A girl with long grey hair types away at a laptop on a desk accompanied by a white cat.
The cozy game boom is the clearest trend on Steam over five years of data

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News GameDiscoverCo's data shows the word "cozy" being used in capsule descriptions more and more frequently.

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A medieval peasant prepares to brain a zombie with a lump of raw meat
We'll be able to hit zombies with meat in singleplayer medieval survival sim God Save Birmingham

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The King can look after himself.

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Two vampires prepare to duel beneath a blood red sky
As the Legacy of Kain remasters continue, a new game emerges—a 2D action-platformer

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Legacy of Kain: Ascendance and Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered will both be available in March.

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Divinity: Original Sin 2 easter eggs hinting Baldur's Gate 3 would be Larian's next game had to be toned down: 'Originally the reference to BG3 was very explicit'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Does this mean there are hints in Baldur's Gate 3 about what'll be in Divinity?

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Dinosaur smashing through a window
The first two Dino Crisis games are on Steam for the first time and half-price, but packaged with Enigma DRM

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The frogurt is also cursed.

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Strixhaven reveal
WotC says there are no plans for a Harry Potter Magic set, 'The Magic Multiverse has its own school of Magic at Strixhaven'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News And it doesn't have anything as daft as Quidditch in it.

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A red-haired halfling
Solasta 2 is committed to implementing a D&D 5E rule that Baldur's Gate 3 dismissed

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Get ready to ready some actions.

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Fallout New Vegas NCR troopers led by a veteran ranger charge out of Freeside
The best thing about Fallout New Vegas was right there in Bethesda's initial pitch to Obsidian

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It's the factions, of course.

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Two versions of a fat man in glasses and a singlet that doesn't fit, one with a sweatshirt and cat-ear headphones
This Lost Ark skin turns your warrior into a stereotypical gamer, complete with Mountain Dew gut and a pair of slides

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Terrible opinions are optional.

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A man in power armor with spiked shoulder pads, spaceships in the void behind him
FTL-like Void War was DMCAed by Games Workshop due to 'oversized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "For the legally distinct God-King!"

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A tough Vault Dweller from an ad for the original Fallout by Simon Bisley
Fallout's origin can be traced back to a pizza party Tim Cain threw

By Jody Macgregor Published

News But were there anchovies?

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An archer lines up a shot at a dragon
I thought I was finally free from stealth-focused Skyrim builds, then someone modded in the ability to hide in bushes

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Here we go again.

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The Witcher 3 romances - Shani
Witcher 3 mod restores a darker ending for the Hearts of Stone expansion that was cut during development

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Which also explains why Shani's central to it.

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Elise points a pistol while standing in a hot-air balloon
In defense of Assassin's Creed Unity

By Jody Macgregor Published

Crowd Work "This is not a just world. This is France."

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Crowd Work
Vault Boy gives a thumbs-up in a prison uniform with ball and chain, while a Securitron sweeps with a broom
The total conversion mod remaking the lost Fallout 3 in Fallout: New Vegas got its first trailer and a new name

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Van Buren will never die.

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A devilish figure in a red mask with one eye open
Just under two weeks from its release date, devil's bargain deckbuilder The Killing Stone announces it will be launching into early access instead

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It takes longer than you think to thoroughly shuffle a deck.

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Effy, the hammer-wielding hero from Starlight Re:Volver
Anime action RPG studio Pahdo Labs shuts down despite accruing $17.5M in funding: 'We believed making a demo of a familiar but new game would be our best shot'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Farewell, Starlight Re:Volver, we barely knew you.

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Why does isometric perspective suit Disco Elysium? 'You can design the entire game as if it was a painting'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News ZA/UM's original art director breaks it down.

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An NPC stands in front of a door, A-posing and lit up in the Before shot, posed normally and in shadow After
I didn't even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim's NPCs look during the split second they're opening doors, and now a modder's pointed it out the mod to fix it has become essential

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Thanks again, wSkeever.

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Animated versions of Baldur's Gate 3 heroes relax at camp
Larian made a chill beats Baldur's Gate 3 animation full of references to popular mods and memes

By Jody Macgregor Published

News I'm not seeing Withers' Big Naturals though.

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Three Tea Princesses prepare for battle
There's a turn-based tactics game about the eternal war between tea and coffee, and you can get it for free: 'We've made enough money from the game'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Sovereign Tea is yours to keep on Steam.

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Pink zombies swarm while yellow citizens and a llama either go about their lives or prepare to defend themselves
Atom Zombie Smasher, a 15-year-old game, just got updated out of the blue on Steam

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It's still got a download size less than 30MB.

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Baldur's Gate 3 mod restores more than 100 conversations and 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue from the early access version previously lost in the ethereal plane

By Jody Macgregor Published

News That's a lot of Astarion being saucy.

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Rincewind from the Discworld videogame scowls at you
What's the next step in these adventure game puzzles?

By Jody Macgregor Published

🥸 Get lamp. Lamp puzzle designer.

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