Elie Gould

Elie Gould

News Writer

Elie is a news writer with an unhealthy love of horror games—even though their greatest fear is being chased. When they're not screaming or hiding, there's a good chance you'll find them testing their metal in metroidvanias or just admiring their Pokemon TCG collection. Elie has previously worked at TechRadar Gaming as a staff writer and studied at JOMEC in International Journalism and Documentaries – spending their free time filming short docs about Smash Bros. or any indie game that crossed their path.

Latest articles by Elie Gould

Jason Killer update
Dead by Daylight apologises to fans after gifting DLC to TheBurntPeanut and has since 'removed the content that was granted'

By Elie Gould Published

News "We can take the heat!" Are you sure about that?

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The top 100 PC games

By Phil Savage Published

Class of 2026 PC Gamer's annual list of the 100 best PC games you can play—updated for 2026

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Class of 2026
An illustration of a squad of Space Marine terminators firing storm bolters.
Mike Flanagan thinks 'Warhammer is a fascinating world' but can't tell us anything else about the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 project because 'Henry Cavill would be furious'

By Elie Gould Published

News Give me blood, give me gore, give me Space Marines.

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News
Overwatch hero Juno in her spacesuit and holding her mediblaster gun on a dark background
The Overwatch devs hear your complaints about skin distribution but concede that some cosmetics need to 'support the actual bottom-line business'

By Elie Gould Published

News It's rough out here for Zarya fans.

News
Arc Raiders: A raider standing with a gun in their right hand, looking upwards at something out of shot, surrounded by red smoke.
'There was some really fair criticism': Arc Raiders' devs understand why players were so upset about its AI use but say that it was 'too impractical to record' every voice line

By Elie Gould Published

News Embark has since re-recorded lines to inject more real human voices to the game.

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Arc Raiders Celeste motion capture
Arc Raiders devs used a music sample 'from a piano in Chernobyl' that someone had discovered in the Forbidden Zone

By Elie Gould Published

News "A lot of the sounds in the game are quite unique."

News
Olive drab filter person wearing goggles reaching upwards and screaming
'Are we going too far with this?': One of the worst scenes in Outlast had its devs debating whether to add it to the game or not

By Elie Gould Published

News How far is too far in a universe that constantly pushes gore to its limits?

News
The Outlast Trials screenshots
Red Barrels' co-founder is just as confused as we are as to why no one's tried to replicate Outlast's success: 'Honestly, I don't know'

By Elie Gould Published

News You'd think someone else would've successfully taken gore to the next level.

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The new Prime Asset featured in the upcoming update for the Outlast Trials.
'We act as if Halloween is ours': The best way to spend spooky season is within The Outlast Trials' Sinyala Facility

By Elie Gould Published

Happy Halloween What better way to celebrate Halloween than by giving yourself nightmares?

Happy Halloween
Jason Duval
GTA 6's souped-up Red Dead Redemption 2-style morality system will scale from 'Professional' to 'Irredeemable' so players can decide what kind of criminal they want to be

By Elie Gould Published

News Not every act of violence needs to end in death.

News
Kline looking confused.
Kane Parsons believes his interpretation of the backrooms is 'minor cultural shorthand' for the abstract space—just look at South Park's recent episode

By Elie Gould Published

News You can't pin the backrooms down though, no matter how hard you try.

News
GTA 6 protagonist Lucia Caminos.
You can relationship-max in GTA 6 as walking along the beach or working out at the gym together increases your couple rating on a four point scale

By Elie Gould Published

News I am going to create an environment that is so loving.

News
Backrooms protagonist looking at camera incredulously with the titular backrooms visible in background
If Kane Parsons does make a Backrooms sequel then it'll be to 'poke at' aspects of the first film that 'didn't feel like it accurately spoke to the cultural core of Backrooms'

By Elie Gould Published

News Give me The Bacteria or give me death!

News
Kane Parsons on set of Backrooms, with a reversed stop sign in the background, a delicious foil for the headline which says he is not stopping making Backrooms stuff
Backrooms director Kane Parsons is currently working on '3 dream projects' while wearing a Valve hoodie—suspicious

By Elie Gould Published

News I'm calling it now—Half-Life 3 will be a patchwork of YouTube shorts.

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News
A promotional image for the Dweller Outfit, showing a character wearing it while holding a pistol up across their body.
Arc Raiders' executive producer was 'a bit skeptical' about adding PvE, but after the successful test the team needs to decide 'what we want to do going forward'

By Elie Gould Published

News I say just replicate the PvE test for those who want it.

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News
Portrait pic of Tracer in Overwatch
Project Titan's end 'immediately instilled a culture of humility' in the Overwatch team which has helped them see the last decade through

By Elie Gould Published

News "Overwatch was born out of the ashes of a previous [game]."

News
Deadline: Afterlife Processing screenshots
Deadline: Afterlife Processing lets you take morality into your own hands and judge who deserves eternal salvation or damnation

By Elie Gould Published

Ponder the orb Playing music too loud on the subway? Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Ponder the orb
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Price screenshot
Call of Duty passes $40 billion in lifetime revenue, making it one of the most lucrative videogame franchises ever

By Elie Gould Published

News Never underestimate the unbridled love for yelling hoorah before gunning down the same generic bad guy every year.

News
call of duty modern warfare captain price
Call of Duty's director explains that his film will be all about the 'consequence of war' and not just a shoot-'em-up

By Elie Gould Published

News The film seeks to explore Modern Warfare's "nuanced storylines".

News
Overwatch tier list: Jetpack Cat flying towards the camera while carrying a Mauga.
Overwatch devs took one look at Jetpack Cat and Bastion's combo and went 'oh, that's a little scary'

By Elie Gould Published

News The Apache helicopter meta was certainly something to be feared.

News
Abyssal Lapidary screenshots
Abyssal Lapidary is making the social media rounds and I can confirm cutting gemstones is just as satisfying as it looks

By Elie Gould Published

Shine bright I'm a chump who can't tell my gems from my minerals.

Shine bright
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival screenshots
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival review–Rough around the edges

By Elie Gould Published

All in vein Hellraiser: Revival may not be great action horror but it does win the prize for most unique fetch quest.

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All in vein
10 million pixels demo screenshots
I've been waiting to see a pixel bounce into a perfect corner since childhood and finally this Next Fest Demo delivered it

By Elie Gould Published

On point I saw it hit the corner, I swear I did.

On point
Arc Raiders Storm Hut - Man in mask
Over '30 million rounds of PvE were played' over the last week in Arc Raiders but Embark still needs 'a bit of time to understand what the data is telling us'

By Elie Gould Published

News I'm very sad to see the tail end of PvE in Arc Raiders.

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Pokémon TCG Mega Dream expansion
Nearly $1 million worth of PSA-graded Pokémon and other trading cards have been stolen right outside PSA's headquarters

By Elie Gould Published

News Refunds will be issued to affected parties.

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News
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