Evan Lahti

Evan Lahti

Strategic Director

Evan's a hardcore FPS enthusiast who joined PC Gamer way back in 2008. After an era spent publishing reviews, news, and cover features, he now oversees editorial operations for PC Gamer worldwide, including setting policy, training, and editing stories written by the wider team. His most-played FPSes are Hunt: Showdown, Team Fortress 2, Team Fortress Classic, Rainbow Six Siege, and Counter-Strike. His first multiplayer FPS was Quake 2, played on serial LAN in his uncle's basement, the ideal conditions for instilling a lifelong fondness for fragging.

Latest articles by Evan Lahti

Divinity cinematic reveal
Divinity has even 'deeper sequences of consequence' than Baldur's Gate 3, says Larian: 'We wouldn't be excited if we were making the same game again'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news "The level of agency that we're going to give you is very, very high⁠—much higher than what happened in BG3."

news
Arc Raiders loot guide: Three raiders standing shoulder to shoulder in Buried City. The one of the left is reaching for something in their pocket, the character in the middle, wearing an astronaut helmet, is casually looking up, while the one on the right in cowboy attire is aiming their pistol.
Arc Raiders devs are uplifted by how kind players have been to one another, but admit 'we're way worse people than the community' when it comes to engaging in PvP

By Elie Gould, Evan Lahti, Tim Clark Published

News Do the devs proud, bring in a defib.

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News
Arc Raiders Reveal in Ruins: An upper-body shot of Lance, the robot medic wearing sunglasses and a gun holster on his check, casually sitting in a chair in his room, lit by a neon medical sign.
'Our ambition is to keep this game alive for the longest time': Embark's devs want to keep working on Arc Raiders 'as long as players engage with it and have fun'

By Elie Gould, Evan Lahti, Tim Clark Published

News Sounds like a great plan to me.

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News
Arc Raiders extraction shooter
Your bloodlust does have consequences in Arc Raiders, as a dev confirms, 'we do analyse behaviour and match accordingly'

By Elie Gould, Evan Lahti, Tim Clark Published

News Aggression-based matchmaking confirmed?

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News
Arc Raiders Ryder skin
'Quite a few things have taken us by surprise': Arc Raiders' wallhacks caught the devs off-guard as heaps of greedy players hunted for exploits

By Elie Gould, Tim Clark, Evan Lahti Published

News Where there's a will, there's probably a wallhack.

News
Ella Purnell (Lucy MacLean) in FALLOUT SEASON 2 Photo Credit: Lorenzo Sisti / Prime © Amazon Content Services LLC
Fallout TV series coverage hub

By Evan Lahti Published

fallout

fallout
Arc Raiders players are already impatient for more content. Here's 8 things we think the game could do to expand

By Evan Lahti, Rory Norris, Morgan Park, Sean Martin Published

opinion If you were put in charge of Arc Raiders, how would you plot out its design in 2026?

opinion
Rust keyart of a player wearing street sign armor and holding a map
You haven't truly experienced PC gaming until you've done these 8 things

By Andrea Shearon Published

Relatable If you know, you know.

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Relatable
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It breaks our hearts to cut great games from the Top 100 list, but sacrifices must be made—these are some of the omissions that caused us psychic damage this year

By Tyler Wilde Published

Tough calls When you can only pick 100 games, there are a lot of games you can't pick.

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Tough calls
Exclusive: Monster Train 2: Echoes From the Void first details

By Evan Lahti Published

news Two new bosses, along with new artifacts and other new content, are arriving Nov 5 in our favorite deckbuilder of 2025.

news
PC Gamer Top 100 2025
The top 100 PC games

By Phil Savage Published

Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.

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Class of 2025
Absolum review: Finally, a beat 'em up with depth

By Evan Lahti Published

D&D beatdown Following in the bootsteps of Golden Axe and Castle Crashers, Absolum places the beat 'em up in a gorgeous fantasy setting.

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D&D beatdown
Absolum interview: How the beat 'em up's developers created four fabulous characters

By Evan Lahti Published

interview The first big beat 'em up in years, Absolum's cast are gorgeously animated.

interview
Watch The PC Gamer Streamer Showdown live today on Twitch

By Evan Lahti Published

event Eight streamers battle in Street Fighter 6, Peak, and Rocket League this week on our Twitch channel.

event
Monster Train 2 update details and Q&A: developers share info on 4 new cards

By Evan Lahti Published

15 new cards are coming to Monster Train 2 Sept 10, along with the game's first significant rebalancing patch.

Games
Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong close-up
Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry's extraordinarily hyped sequel

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

First notes Were those six years of Silksanity well spent?

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First notes
Announcing The PC Gamer Streamer Showdown, broadcasting Sept 9-12

By Evan Lahti Published

news Tune in next month for a one-of-a-kind triathalon between popular streamers.

news
Young man concentrating on playing a video game, using a colorful keyboard and wearing headphones in an internet cafe, with another player visible in the background
Why is logging into anything such a pain in the ass?

By Evan Lahti Published

opinion It's 2025 A.D. We've sequenced the human genome. We wield the power of the atom. Why can't we make logging in an easy task?

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opinion
Gia (left) and another character from Aether & Iron, dressed in 1930s clothing with an urban backdrop
This tactics RPG set on a floating New York City could be the next great noir videogame

By Evan Lahti Published

girl noir Aether & Iron is a "decopunk" RPG with characters and factions inspired by New York's actual history.

girl noir
Rematch screenshot
Rematch's developers expected players to develop new tech fast, but 'not nearly as fast as it is going right now'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Tekkers!

News
Rematch screenshot
Rematch devs talk balls—specifically, how to balance the ball's feel with function: 'It's the basic brick of the game, it's like an atomic component'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Any tweaks need to be done in a "considerate and deliberate way".

News
Absolum key art showing a grey-blue character with white hair swinging a sword over their shoulder, another masked character is visible in the background with fists raised
Absolum isn't just the best demo on Steam, it's one of my favorite things I've played in 2025

By Evan Lahti Published

spotlight The best game of Steam Next Fest is a roguelike beat 'em up.

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spotlight
Key art for 14 underappreciated games feature, including characters from SKin Deep, Solium Infernum, 1000xRESIST, MechWarriror 5: Clans, and more
The 14 most underappreciated games of the last year that you shouldn't have ignored

By Dominic Tarason Published

Encore! Roguelike repair, demonic politics and high-caliber pinball. Here’s some of 2024’s best, once more in the spotlight.

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Encore!
Dean Hall at GDC 2025.
Outer space inspired DayZ's Dean Hall to become a modder and game developer, and now he's making a Kerbal successor called Kitten Space Agency

By Evan Lahti Published

Blast off Not even in an alpha state, Kitten Space Agency is inspiring a community of developers to join its mission.

Blast off
Fragpunk characters with weapon drawn
The latest big game on Steam is Fragpunk, or as I like to call it, 'kitchen-sink Counter-Strike'

By Evan Lahti Published

FPYES Fragpunk's fun is a reminder that some things are more important than a ruthless devotion to balance.

FPYES
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