Shaun Prescott

Shaun Prescott

Australian Editor

Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.

Latest articles by Shaun Prescott

Donald Trump in Destiny 2
Amid mass layoffs at Bungie, the official White House X account issues sociopathic Destiny 2 meme

By Shaun Prescott Published

News B2 bombers, a Rolls Royce, and a 4700 power level.

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A still from OD's trailer alongside a portrait of Hideo Kojima
Big companies told Hideo Kojima he's 'crazy' for making OD: 'It's something that no one has ever seen before'

By Shaun Prescott Published

News But Xbox saved the day.

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A man stands with a wad of cash
Steam Week in Review: spammy, AI-generated capsule art is a pox, and it makes browsing Steam less fun

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending June 22.

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Full of Steam
The Steam Controller on a desk during a teardown, with various parts removed.
Steam Controller demand is so high that new reservations won't be fulfilled until 2027

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The queue system has been tweaked to give more useful shipping estimations, but they're not encouraging.

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Three games including a monkey, an anime person, and a soldier on a rope
Steam Next Fest's top played games include only 1 of over 500 demos with an AI disclosure

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Anime, friendslop and relaxed offroading are the highlights, but seriously Valve: give us an AI filter.

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Former Sony exec Shawn Layden standing next to the Xbox logo
Xbox's latest tactics display 'a basic misunderstanding of how the interactive entertainment world moves', says former PlayStation exec

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The console war also unfolds on LinkedIn.

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An image of a pit and a giant centipede
I need you to play this unbelievably tense 2 hour horror about descending into hell with a grappling hook

By Shaun Prescott Published

Fall guy Idols of Ash is $3, has over 2,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam, and is one of my favourites so far of 2026.

Fall guy
A battle screen from Dragon Ball Z fan game Wish for Immortality
A lost Dragon Ball Z fan RPG has resurfaced after mystery user drops it in a seven-year-old forum thread

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The internet is still good sometimes.

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Three AI-generated videogame characters
Steam Week in Review: More than 300 games released on Steam last week, and 120 of them had AI disclosures

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending June 14.

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Combat takes place on a choppy ocean
Legendary JRPG studio's 23-year shun of the PC has ended: the next Vanillaware game will come to Steam

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Vanillaware is getting with the times.

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A little man stands next to a mushroom
Derelict Star review: The best feeling platformer of the decade so far

By Shaun Prescott Published

Ship shape Chunky pixels, a 1:1 aspect ratio, and the best feeling platforming around.

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Ship shape
A platforming gauntlet from the game N Plus Infinity Times Two
These indie devs are so over algorithms they spent 1,500 hours listening to music on Bandcamp to compile the soundtrack

By Shaun Prescott Published

News N Plus Infinity Times Two will keep the niche sonic focus of its predecessor.

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A platforming gauntlet from the game N Plus Infinity Times Two
N Plus Infinity Times Two is a multiplayer-focused follow-up to one of the best platformers on PC: 'we don't think anyone else on this planet is as crazy about 2D platformers as we are'

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Ten years later, the virtually endless N++ gets a multiplayer-centric follow-up.

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The Steam Deck alongside Valve's three new products: the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller.
Valve really isn't budging: Steam Machine and Steam Frame are still 'shipping this summer,' it insists

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Despite the dire hardware and component landscape, it's apparently still happening.

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A man stands in dull red light
Silent Hill: Townfall will release in September alongside a handful of other blockbuster games hellbent on avoiding GTA 6

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Five heavyweights are taking shelter earlier in the holiday season.

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A zombie screams with bulging eyes
New Ill trailer sets a new bar for videogame ultraviolence, with at least three skull crushings

By Shaun Prescott Published

News I hope there weren't any kids watching.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor looking through a passageway in a yellow office
Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and legitimate contenders

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 30.

Full of Steam
A collage of levels from Derelict Star
'I do think Blow misunderstood what the game is about': Derelict Star made Jonathan Blow rage quit, but it's the most fascinating indie platformer I've played for years

By Shaun Prescott Published

star jumps Developer responds to Blow's criticism of his "mutant-freak modern reimagining" of Mario's P-Meter.

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A low-poly suburban landscape
Steam Week in Review: Steam is flooded with liminal spaces games and I approve, but I think I've found the best to start with

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 24.

Full of Steam
A space marine with a boltgun stands in front of necron pyramids
One of the hundreds of Warhammer games is currently free to keep forever on Steam

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The series' sole 4X outing is worth investigation.

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Bubsy looking forlorn
The new Bubsy is better than I expected, but its hackneyed '90s nostalgia is exhausting

By Shaun Prescott Published

Fur crazy This cat has too many lives.

Fur crazy
A woman climbs a cliff face with another, larger mountain in the background
Cairn revolutionizes bragging rights, lets you print a shirt showing your playthrough ascent from an in-game menu

By Shaun Prescott Published

News You'll be the talk of the town.

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Two of the best wireless gaming headsets with a PC Gamer recommends badge in the top right.
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself

By Dave James Last updated

Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.

Untethered
A woman holds two guns with a city skyline behind her
Steam week in review: metroidvanias are still coming thick and fast, but has the world moved on?

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 17.

Full of Steam
Windrose - The leader of the Smugglers, Marita Suarez. She has long brown curly hair and is wearing a large pirate hat and green doublet.
Windrose hits 2 million sales milestone, proving yet again that the world really, really wanted a good pirate game

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Low-hanging fruit, and someone finally plucked it.

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