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

An armored warrior with red eyes from the cover art for Witchaven
One of the first games made in the Build Engine is about to be delisted

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Witchaven and its sequel have gone on sale ahead of their removal.

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A 3rd Street Saint shows off his grill
Keep your GTA 6, the news I can finally play the console-exclusive DLC for Saints Row 2 from 2009 on PC is what I've been waiting for

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Bless the modders.

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A cartoon arm prepares to shove Jack's bald head back in the box
Jackbox's first externally published game looks like the shot in the arm the stealth genre needs, and it'll be out this year

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Ha ha, get it, because it's called My Arms Are Longer Now.

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Temple of Elemental Evil skull
A 23-year-old D&D CRPG just got patched to add achievements and fix a bug that stopped you from earning XP

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Time to go back to The Temple of Elemental Evil.

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Three Deathwatch marines stand in burning alien corpses
40k XCOM-like Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is getting a sequel and this time we'll get to purge 'seven distinctive enemy factions'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News More variety would be nice.

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Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3 standing with her finger to her mouth in a "thinking" pose.
How well do you know Baldur's Gate 3's third act? See what you remember about the RPG's big finale with a quiz built for real Elder Brains

By Andrea Shearon Published

Fin You feel compelled by an unseen force to accept this challenge.

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A wall of wanted posters next to a telescope
It's my own fault for thinking Warren Spector's new multiplayer stealth game adding singleplayer would make it the Thief successor I was hoping for

By Jody Macgregor Published

Guarded Praise As a singleplayer experience, Thick as Thieves feels a bit thin.

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Guarded Praise
A tiger warrior clawspeaker and a sawai both roar into the air
Bhashiva's tiger warriors are an addition to Total War: Warhammer 3 worth the money and the wait

By Jody Macgregor Published

Burning Bright Plus you can ally with Chrace for their white lions and Kislev for bears then finally have an army of lions and tigers and bears, oh my.

Burning Bright
Batman in his Arkham costume poses in front of a map of Gotham's Arkham City and Arkham Asylum
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight review – An Arkham game in all but name

By Jody Macgregor Published

The Block Knight Returns "Young and old, gather round / Everybody hail the new king in town."

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The Block Knight Returns
Monika smokes a cigarette
The best cyberpunk games on PC

By Jody Macgregor Last updated

No Future These are the best cyberpunk games you can play on PC.

No Future
A very large mech.
Forza Horizon 6 has hit a higher peak player count than Forza Horizon 5 and it's not even out yet

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Meching money.

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Garfield slaps Jon on a Counterspell card
It's time for Garfield's official Magic: The Gathering crossover now

By Jody Macgregor Published

News No, not Richard Garfield. The other one.

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Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: 'I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "Or even a grav gun separating me from that 10-foot pole."

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News
A necron stares, intently with the cold regard of machinery, at the camera in Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus 2.
Turn-based tactics game Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus 2 will release next week to coincide with a Warhammer Skulls event stacked with reveals

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Some of them will be grim. Some of them will be dark.

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The Slither, deeply unnatural worms, infest a corpse
The Sinking City 2 shifts the series to survival horror, and manages to be genuinely unsettling

By Jody Macgregor Published

Hands-On The first game was atmospheric, but not really scary. Here's hoping the sequel gets it right.

Hands-On
Henry, shirtless and damp, bellows from a pond
If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Chris Livingston's fault specifically.

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Roblox Reality comparison
Roblox wants AI to make its games photorealistic, but the devs making those games aren't sold on the idea: 'I don't think that your average player right now wants to do that'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Games like 99 Nights in the Forest appeal to kids because of the way they look, not in spite of it.

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A werewolf with a necklace of teeth
The next World of Darkness game to be revealed is a Werewolf metroidvania, and I respect the hustle

By Jody Macgregor Published

News They've led by showing gameplay, let's see how that plays out for them.

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An image of Age 234 in the Riven soundtrack's gatefold, created with AI by Robyn Miller
Riven co-creator defends his use of AI art: 'Any artist can take a brush and, without thinking, an artist can create slop'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News The vinyl soundtrack's release should have been a moment to celebrate, instead it's been marked by controversy.

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News
A deer with staring eyes against a dark red background
With a peak player count of 14.2 million, 99 Nights in the Forest has an audience other multiplayer games would kill for: 'To find these behemoth playerbases you need to be on a platform like Roblox'

By Jody Macgregor Published

Big Blox "Kids are on Roblox, and that's where the players are," says developer Alec Kieft.

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Big Blox
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Playing Deus Ex: Invisible War like it always should have been

By Jody Macgregor Published

Counting beans Don't mention the (invisible) war.

Counting beans
Warcraft 3
Warcraft 3 Legacy is finally back on Battle.net

By Jody Macgregor Published

News And you don't have to install Warcraft 3 Reforged to launch it.

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The Juggernaut pulls an angry face
Marvel once caused a problem for Capcom by insisting 'Juggernaut can't jump'

By Jody Macgregor Published

News He did walk over a chasm, but was possessed by an Asgardian spirit at the time.

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You're not crazy, that one sewer puzzle in Half-Life 2 really was harder 22 years ago

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Vindication.

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Graf Boris Todbringer, with an eyepatch and a helmet that looks like a castle, faces his beastman nemesis
The Empire's most OTT lord finally gets his due, portrayed by a YouTuber hamming it up in Total War: Warhammer 3

By Jody Macgregor Published

News Summon the Elector Count.

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