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

Resident Evil Requiem - Leon with a another sweet jacket in the rain at night
Resident Evil Requiem was originally a tense, stealth-oriented horror starring only Leon, before the team went back to the drawing board: 'People wouldn't want to see a timid Leon'

By Shaun Prescott Published

Capcom is combining all the different intensities of Resi into one game.

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Resident Evil
A screenshot from Lovish showing a castle room full of spikes and enemies
The studio behind the best metroidvania of 2021 has a new game coming out next month—and I'm dropping everything to play it

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Sorry everything else.

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A still from a teaser trailer for the new Compile Hearts JRPG
The JRPG veteran responsible for Persona and Megami Tensei is working on a 'school life RPG' with the Neptunia series studio

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Kouji Okada is joined by two other Atlus veterans.

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Ecco the Dolphin key art from the original Sega game
With only 2,300 hours to go until a full Ecco the Dolphin reveal, new details emerge about the forthcoming reboot

By Shaun Prescott Published

news The iconic New Age mammal is coming back.

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An EB Games outlet covered in sale signs
All EB Games outlets in New Zealand will close by the end of the month following 'multi-million dollar' losses

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Videogame retail takes another hit.

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AI generated image of the AI generated four piece rock band The Velvet Sundown
Music marketplace Bandcamp bypasses AI disclosures and obtuse policies to announce a wholesale ban on AI slop

By Shaun Prescott Published

News More of this, please.

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A screenshot from Oddcore showing eyes floating in a cloudy sky
Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 12, 2026)

By Shaun Prescott Published

New on Steam Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

New on Steam
A German Shepherd sits in the passenger seat of a car
Five new Steam games you probably missed (December 22, 2025)

By Shaun Prescott Published

New on Steam Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

New on Steam
A screenshot from Öoo showing the protagonist in a cave-like environment
Öoo is a 4 hour platformer about solving problems with bombs, and it's the cleverest puzzle game I played in 2025

By Shaun Prescott Published

🏆 The metroidbrainia renaissance continues.

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PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025

By Phil Savage Published

The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.

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The Gotys
A mobile phone showing social media apps in front of a screen stipulating Australia's social media age restrictions
From today, Australian teens and children under 16 can't sign-up to Twitch and 9 other social media platforms, as world-first ban takes effect

By Shaun Prescott Published

News TikTok, Kick and X are also among those banned, and the rest of the world is taking notice.

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Joana Dark close up with sky in background
Microsoft killed the promising Perfect Dark reboot, but Take-Two has snapped up its leads for a new 2K studio

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Darrell Gallagher and Brian Horton will work together on a new, yet-to-be-announced project.

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Key art for Kingdom of Knight showing six characters from the game
Five new Steam games you probably missed (December 8, 2025)

By Shaun Prescott Published

New on Steam Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

New on Steam
A screenshot from Splatterhouse: World showing three characters in the interior of a house
A weird, never-released NES horror JRPG no one knew about 2 years ago is now translated and fully playable

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Namco almost released a Splatterhouse RPG.

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A monument in California designed to promote a videogame
Latest viral Game Awards tease could be teasing any videogame with hellish imagery from the last 70 years of the medium, but it's probably Elder Scrolls Online

By Shaun Prescott Published

News It's definitely not God of War.

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Attendees gather in front of an Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) logo displayed on a screen during the company's EA Play event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Saturday, June 10, 2017. EA revealed two new titles along with the annual iterations of the company's sports games, as well as unveiling the highly anticipated "Star Wars: Battlefront II" open-world multiplayer gameplay. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The other investors have tiny stakes, and the PIF has stakes in them.

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Majima in a pirate outfit with a shark in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
Like a Dragon creators won't buckle to mainstream western tastes: 'people start making strange things when they misunderstand what their business is supposed to be'

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Ryu Ga Gotoku won't create a foreign protagonist whose story is set overseas.

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Screenshot from Hail to the Rainbow showing a robot with glowing red eyes
Five new Steam games you probably missed (December 1, 2025)

By Shaun Prescott Published

New on Steam Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

New on Steam
Serra de Deus screenshot showing two policemen in a non-descript room
Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 17, 2025)

By Shaun Prescott Published

New on Steam Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

New on Steam
resident evil requiem
Resident Evil Village harkened back to Resident Evil 4, but what about Resident Evil Requiem? 'Resident Evil 2', says producer

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Also: why Grace Ashworth's vulnerability is different to Ethan Winters'.

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Valve's new and improved Steam Controller during a visit to Valve's HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
I can't live without the Steam Deck's trackpads anymore, and I hope the Steam Controller forces the competition to adopt them

By Shaun Prescott Published

on track Trackpads could be the 21st century’s analog sticks.

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Horizon: Steel Frontiers screenshot showing a woman on the back of a robotic mount
Horizon: Steel Frontiers is an MMO based on the PlayStation series, and it's coming to PC and mobile (but not PS5)

By Shaun Prescott Published

News It's being made by the publisher of Guild Wars 2.

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Valve's new Steam Machine during a visit to Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington. The Steam Machine is a compact living room gaming PC.
Steam Machine will start shipping to Australia on the same day as the rest of the world, marking a brave new era for Valve

By Shaun Prescott Published

News That applies for the Steam Controller and Steam Frame as well.

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A screenshot from Possessor(s) showing Rhem, the demon possessor
Possessor(s) review – A stylish and atmospheric metroidvania with little friction

By Shaun Prescott Published

demon hunter A stylish and atmospheric metroidvania with little friction.

demon hunter
Hornet clashes with a pin-wielding bug in Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Silksong's disastrous Chinese translation has received an official fan-made overhaul, and it's just been pushed live on PC with Patch 4

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Patch 4 also introduces a range of other fixes and tweaks.

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