Joe Donnelly

Deputy Editor, PC Gaming Show

Latest articles by Joe Donnelly

Jason, one of the protagonists of GTA 6, holding a phone.
This GTA 6 fan's fascinating deep-dive into co-protagonist Jason's military background is a must-read for all you lore heads out there

By Joe Donnelly Published

News Part-history lesson, part-fan detective work, this is some wild but impressively coherent speculation.

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Mythbusters: San Andreas
GTA 5's character-swapping system was a stroke of genius that was supposed to feature in San Andreas 9 years earlier—this masterclass mod makes that dream a reality

By Joe Donnelly Published

Double act Real Multiple Protagonists recreates a long-forgotten source code quirk from a game now 21 years old.

Double act
GTA Online
Hear me out: GTA Online has always worked best as a singleplayer game, and whatever shape GTA 6's multiplayer off-shoot takes needs to follow suit

By Joe Donnelly Published

Solo'd Me, myself and aye.

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Solo'd
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
A man crying at a grave in Red Dead Online.
'A glimmer of hope': What does GTA 6 mean for Red Dead Online?

By Joe Donnelly Published

Duel wield The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

Duel wield
Jason and Lucia sitting on a pier, enjoying a beer together in the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer.
'Rockstar keeps us on our toes': Will we get another GTA 6 trailer before launch, and if so, what can we expect?

By Joe Donnelly Published

Three's company Love is a long, long (long, long) road

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Three's company
Lucia from GTA6 using a punching bag in a gym
Rockstar has launched 2 low-key partnerships for GTA 6, but with a splash of the Fortnite formula they could have a transformative effect on both Vice City and videogames

By Joe Donnelly Published

Open up And no, I don't mean more battle passes or live service gubbins.

Open up
A woman driving a car and a man shooting out of it
The most underrated GTA of all time meets Hotline Miami? This ultra-violent crime sim coming soon to Steam has shot straight to the top of my hit list

By Joe Donnelly Published

News Alex Von Bronx and DOSMan Gaming are cooking up a low-key compadre for GTA 6.

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Cops surrounding the player
A GTA map modder reinvented the 26-year-old classic GTA 2 with a seemingly simple but actually quite complicated trick

By Joe Donnelly Published

Deja vu Restoring that first-play feel to a stone-cold classic.

Deja vu
Jason, one of the protagonists of GTA 6, holding a phone.
Speculatively plotting GTA 6's map is a painstaking, exhausting, and heroic effort: 'We had 10 people search every street in StreetView, this took weeks—and failed'

By Joe Donnelly Published

Map store Welcome to Miami, err, Vice City.

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Map store
Jason from GTA6 on a motorcycle with a gun
With over 10,500 posts and 3 years of research, this GTA 6 map thread is a hivemind of hot speculation, educated guesses and meticulous analysis on the potential size and scale of Vice City

By Joe Donnelly Published

News Six marks the spot.

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GTA 1991 screenshots
'We simply can't do subpar': Behind the scenes with GTA 1991, the ambitious San Andreas prequel whose creators are on the cusp of something special

By Joe Donnelly Published

Back in time Ah sh*t, here we go again…

Back in time
GTA 1991
After 7 years in development, the most exciting Grand Theft Auto total conversion mod sets its sights on an August showcase

By Joe Donnelly Published

News Prepare to throw it back to 1991.

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GTA 6 trailer
GTA 6's server player count rumour could be great news for GTA Online 2.0

By Joe Donnelly Published

News Official servers could let you play with up to 95 pals.

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The PC Gaming Show logo against a pink and purple background
Introducing the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct—coming from the Tokyo Game Show

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS in Tokyo The PCGS is hitting the road with a special show this September

PCGS in Tokyo
PC Gaming Show 2025 logo
Every game, trailer, and announcement in the PC Gaming Show 2025

By Joe Donnelly Published

It's all here Catch up on the 70+ trailers and 15 world premieres from this year's blockbuster PC Gaming Show.

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It's all here
Two aliens carry shopping bags in one of Bernband's communal spaces
Hang out in cyberpunk bars and visit weird fish in Bernband’s alien city—a modern day reimagining of one of 2014’s coolest and most chill games

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 Unveiled at the PC Gaming Show 2025, Sokpop Collective’s Bernband is available to wishlist now on Steam

PCGS 2025
A man with a bloody face lies on the floor and screams at something off-camera
Dead Reset is a terrifyingly gory sci-fi horror FMV adventure with a super-intriguing death-loop mechanic

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 Live and die again and again (and again)!

PCGS 2025
A huge cat boss deals -99999 damage on an cave-like isometric level
Mewgenics, the 'endless cat breeding RPG' from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy, has a new bonkers trailer that'll leave you with more questions than answers

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel's latest look at Mewgenics featured in the PC Gaming Show 2025.

PCGS 2025
A top-down shootout in an alleyway leaves a number of NPC enemies dead
Hotline Miami meets Gunpoint? Top-down hack 'em up DeadWire sets sights on September at the PC Gaming Show 2025

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 Murderous chain reactions are the name of the game—check out DeadWire's latest trailer

PCGS 2025
The player summons an attack from the skies while enemies ride on chariots and wield spears and axes
“That evening, I told the company: This is the first game we're publishing”—how vibes, fun, and aggressively mashing a keyboard landed the Vampire Survivors dev its first publishing client

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 Poncle announced its first publishing partnership at the PC Gaming Show 2025

PCGS 2025
A blue TV screen depicts two images in No, I'm Not a Human - one of a human, and one of a 'visitor'
“An overlooked visitor will kill you”: No, I’m Not a Human is one of the weirdest horror games to have ever graced the PC Gaming Show—play its super unsettling demo

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 No, I’m Not a Human might even be one of the weirdest horror games in the history of the genre…

PCGS 2025
The player and their crew use fire magic to torch spider enemies from a top-down isometric view
Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults drops a quintessential ARPG trailer at the PC Gaming Show 2025—wishlist it now on Steam

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 The pieces are fast falling into place for this action role-player inspired by Pathfinder’s second edition.

PCGS 2025
character wearing helmet with dozens of wires attached like a sea creature
‘We could go from a shooter to a platformer to a horror theme’: How stepping away from Payday 2’s real-world framing has helped Den of Wolves turn high-stakes heisting on its head

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 The PC Gaming Show went behind the scenes with 10 Chambers for an exclusive chat at its Stockholm HQ

PCGS 2025
A neon-coloured dragon awaits the player as they move along rhythm tracks
Fresh Tracks reveals a release date for its rhythmic demon slaying with breakneck heavy metal and—wait, is that Peter Stormare?

By Joe Donnelly Published

PCGS 2025 The latest look at Fresh Tracks brought along a familiar face to the PC Gaming Show 2025

PCGS 2025
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