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

Lucia and Jason in sunglasses, and also in moody black and white
GTA 6 won't be letting up on the satire: 'If you are going to put all this effort into creating a version of today's world, it has to be more over the top, more insane, more in your face'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Lucia and Jason's appearance in a fashion magazine gives us a couple more titbits of GTA info.

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Steam's global top sellers are my Top of the Pops

By Jody Macgregor Published

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Thanquol, a Grey Seer, reaches out towards that beautiful, blow-uppable, snortable warpstone moon in a cinematic trailer for Total War: Warhammer 3 - Lords of the End Times.
One of the most popular Total War: Warhammer 3 mods was 'deliberately corrupted' by its creator to sabotage AI-made copies

By Jody Macgregor Published

News SFO Grimhammer 3 has since been restored to its original version, but the point's been made.

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A collage of stills from Necromunda: Hired Gun, Shadows of New York, and Skald.
11 underappreciated games you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale, according to some of our biggest genre sickos

By Tyler Wilde Published

deep cuts We asked 11 very particular PCG staffers what game they think everyone should buy in Steam's Autumn Sale—here's what they picked.

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deep cuts
A racer waits in the paddock between tournaments on a desert planet
Star Wars: Galactic Racer review – Run-based bash racer with Burnout-style takedowns

By Jody Macgregor Published

Pod Rash F-Zero Company.

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Pod Rash
The Steam logo put through a fisheye lens effect
After a record-breaking September, 'it's safe to say Steam's yearly revenue will blow past $20B for the first time'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Alinea Analytics points out that Steam's not slowing down.

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The greatest RTS unit of all time, determined by democracy

By Fraser Brown Published

This means war Make your vote count.

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This means war
Fallout 25th anniversary
We're probably not getting a new Fallout game until well into the 2030s, but that's no reason to stop talking about them

By Jody Macgregor, Christopher Livingston, Lauren Morton, Andy Chalk, Joshua Wolens Published

Picnic Prattle The bombs may fall for real before then.

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Picnic Prattle
A Big Walk ant person staring into your soul with the giant round eye on the side of their round head.
Big Walk Elden Ring mod is real

By Jody Macgregor Published

Action
Runa pulls a sarcastic face
This Star Wars Zero Company user review is wild

By Jody Macgregor Published

Strategy
Space Marine pointing in Total War: Warhammer 40,000 image
3 Warhammer 40,000 sickos share their strongest held beliefs—and you can vote on them

By Fraser Brown Published

Grimdark democracy Fraser, Jody, and Sean take a stand.

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Grimdark democracy
Thief hype at maximum

By Jody Macgregor Published

Games
Morrigan, the Witch of the Wilds in the Dragon Age serries, shown wielding magic in front of a Darkspawn.
Former Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah explains what he'd change about each game: 'It's kind of filler'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News A candid look at what one of the series' creators would like to have done differently.

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Izoi - A zoi kneels down to fix a broken refrigerator while another Zoi watches
Samsung's AI fridges have broken

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Oops.

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A shirtless man and two women in not much pose dramatically
The next retro games coming to Steam are a pair of extremely 1990s run-and-gunners where Spanish Goku fights mutants

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Thunder Hoop and its sequel sure are something.

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The Steam logo put through a fisheye lens effect
What's in Steam's global top sellers this week?

By Jody Macgregor Published

It's the top of the pops.

Games
A skaven player points spiked brass knuckles at the camera
Between 70 and 80% of Blood Bowl 3 games were solo

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Improving the new version's AI is a priority.

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Skyrim's main quest is better than most of its sidequests

By Jody Macgregor Published

The Elder Scrolls
Vault Boy winks in black and white
Tim Cain: 'Among other things that Steve Jackson Games didn't like about Fallout was Vault Boy'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It wasn't just the violence that Fallout's original partner took issue with.

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The Dragonborn looking up and shouting
8 strong Elder Scrolls opinions: With over 2,500 combined hours (and not all as stealth archers), we shout at each other about Skyrim, Morrowind, and Oblivion

By Christopher Livingston, Ted Litchfield, Harvey Randall, Jody Macgregor, Joshua Wolens Published

Thu'um Call Five editors Mid-Vur-Share their thoughts for the past and future of the series.

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Thu'um Call
On the left, workers in Frostpunk, on the right, a warlock summons magical fire in Diablo 2: Resurrected
The Industrial Revolution is the reason RPGs have area-of-effect spells: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™

By Jody Macgregor Published

🔗 Spl-ASH damage.

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The Black Pyramid's web of unlockable upgrades
Waiter, there's some Path of Exile in my Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC

By Jody Macgregor Published

Such is the PoE My compliments to the chef.

Such is the PoE
A statue of a devil lady outside the Devil's Luck casino
Nighthawks review: A novel vampire RPG that's also a vampire novel's worth of great writing

By Jody Macgregor Published

Wordsworth Postcards from Bat Country.

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Wordsworth
Gabe Newell refuses to say 3
Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell's advice to devs still holds up

By Jody Macgregor Published

News There can be a fine line between a malicious hack and a legend.

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News
Vee, a robot with huge hair, sits in a train carriage
The best sex games on PC that aren't garbage

By Jody Macgregor Last updated

Let's put the S in NSFW Sex games that actually don't suck.

Let's put the S in NSFW
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