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

A player home built into an asteroid
The Free Lanes update will finally demolish Starfield's most annoying loading screens, sort of

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Intrasystem space exploration looks like it'll actually be fun.

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A witch hunter raises a hammer as a suspect prays
Witches and glitches are your targets in retro adventure Witchhunter.exe

By Jody Macgregor Published

News This week, Doki Doki Literature Club's discussion book is the Malleus Maleficarum.

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A four-eyed necron bathed in light
Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "Because we really want to see all these sync-kills and all the sync-melee combat that you guys have got going on."

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A player Tav, the main character in Baldur's Gate 3. She's a Half-Drow with purple-toned skin and short white hair.
How well do you know Baldur's Gate 3's second act? You may need an actual brainworm to score a perfect 20/20 on our latest quiz

By Andrea Shearon Published

Saving Throw No cheating, or I'm telling Selûne.

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Saving Throw
A witch elf, surrounded by blood
The Blood Bowl update, using the tabletop game's latest rules, will be a separate game called Warhammer Blood Bowl 'free for all players who already own Blood Bowl 3'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News You'll get to transfer over any teams and other stuff you've unlocked.

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An example of a completed mission in AdHoc Studio's Dispatch.
Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

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A boat's catch of crabs are sorted by size, with the larger ones labeled as "patriotic" and the smaller as "not patriotic"
Crabmeat is a horror game about catching crabs—no, not like that

By Jody Macgregor Published

News No thank you, the ocean.

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Pero, a pear-shaped neoran, wobbles on the spot
Pokémon streamer's Kickstarter for a roguelite monster-collector hits its target in 10 minutes, then blows past $800K

By Jody Macgregor Published

News People sure do love building a squad of weird little guys.

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Alex D, her face lit by a hologram, and improved by the Visible Upgrade mod
In defense of Deus Ex: Invisible War

By Jody Macgregor Published

Hear Me Out "I think the world would be better off if people took the best things from both sides instead of always fighting over extremes."

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Hear Me Out
Leon and Grace, both injured and looking the worse for wear
Resident Evil Requiem delivered on the multiple-protagonist promise I've always wanted from Silent Hill

By Jody Macgregor Published

It Takes Two The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.

It Takes Two
Fallout New Vegas NCR troopers led by a veteran ranger charge out of Freeside
Lost Fallout: New Vegas post-ending dialogue has been found and restored

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The game was rigged from the start.

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Michelangelo swings a chain with a slice of blue pizza in his mouth
Turtle Team-Up turns Magic: The Gathering into a chill co-op game so you don't have to beat your friends and feel bad about it

By Jody Macgregor Published

Turtles Together Strong The power of friendship.

Turtles Together Strong
Young Grace, her glasses reflecting the light of her laptop screen
Out-of-bounds camera reveals Resident Evil Requiem's Grace is a Redditor

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Horrifyingly, she uses light mode.

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A teddy bear holding a toy rabbit floats in space
Copyright trolling kept evidence of Japanese cult classic Cookie's Bustle offline, until now

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The evil is defeated.

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Grace holds up a lighter in the dark
Grace's actor in Resident Evil Requiem says that Capcom 'wanted to go back to the horror Resident Evil games'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News RE by night.

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News
A warlock stands in the middle of standing stones as they're hit by lightning
Why I love Diablo 2, Act 1

By Jody Macgregor Published

First Not Worst I remember when all this was fields.

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First Not Worst
A charging daemonette blurs with speed
Looks like Boltgun 2 will be the Warhammer game to finally give the setting's horniest Chaos god its due

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Good luck trying to hit the daemonettes.

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Grace's mouse in extreme close-up
PSA: You can adjust your mouse sensitivity in Resident Evil Requiem, but the setting's not in an obvious place

By Jody Macgregor Published

News At least it's not behind a zodiac-themed puzzle door.

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Varoufakis at a conference with foreign press in 2018.
Valve's former economist, now a member of parliament in Greece, is being put on trial for promoting drug use because he admitted to taking ecstasy 36 years ago

By Jody Macgregor Published

News He's come a long way from analyzing TF2 hat sales data.

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The Joker and one of his goons with a boombox
The next Lego Batman recreates a memorable scene from the 1989 movie, complete with Prince soundtrack

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It's a party, man.

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Geralt counts to two on his fingers
Reigns The Witcher review: Pick a path

By Jody Macgregor Published

Mild Hunt Toss a card to your witcher.

Mild Hunt
A monk holds a pair of bladed fist weapons
Blizzard says 'There's actually millions of people that still play Diablo 3' and those players have the right idea

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Return to monk.

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Volo
A Grok update was apparently delayed because Elon Musk wanted it to be better at answering questions about Baldur's Gate

By Jody Macgregor Published

News He wants it to be able to play League of Legends as well.

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Karl Urban holds a gun and looks concerned
In defense of Doom (the movie)

By Jody Macgregor Published

Hear Me Out Eat leaden death, demon. Or alien. Or whatever.

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Hear Me Out
Ulfric Stormcloak
Well, someone made an Ulfric Stormcloak Big Naturals mod

By Jody Macgregor Published

News And they call the Imperials "milk-drinkers".

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