Rory Norris

Rory Norris

Guides Writer

Rory has made the fatal error of playing way too many live service games at once, and somehow still finding time for everything in between. Sure, he’s an expert at Destiny 2, Call of Duty, and more, but at what cost? He’s even sunk 1,000 hours into The Elder Scrolls Online over the years. At least he put all those hours spent grinding challenges to good use over the years as a freelancer and guides editor. In his spare time, he’s also an avid video creator, often breaking down the environmental design of his favourite games. If you can’t track him down, he’s probably lost in a cave with a bunch of dwarves shouting “rock and stone” to no end.

Latest articles by Rory Norris

Arc Raiders A Wrench in the Works: A player looking at a wrecked bus on a main road at the western gate.
How to complete A Wrench in the Works in Arc Raiders

By Rory Norris Published

Mutiny Investigate the murmurs of mutiny in Spaceport.

Mutiny
Arc Raiders Avian Alarm: A yellow bird perched on a toy wooden boat next to a bird cage.
How to complete the Avian Alarm project in Arc Raiders

By Rory Norris Published

Bird Brain Employ some birds to monitor seismic activity.

Bird Brain
Arc Raiders Last Resort: A toy sailboat on a desk.
Arc Raiders Last Resort event explained

By Rory Norris Published

Ship It Find toy ships, earn some Merits, and bag some exclusive rewards.

Ship It
Arc Raiders Line in the Sand: A player looking at blue train cars swallowed by sand dunes.
How to complete Line in the Sand in Arc Raiders

By Rory Norris Published

Exodus Track down the missing transport of Exodus material.

Exodus
Arc Raiders Beachcombing: A player holding the Dockmaster's Detector on a beach.
How to use the Dockmaster's Detector to beachcomb in Arc Raiders

By Rory Norris Published

Beep Beep Grab a metal detector and sift through the sand.

Beep Beep
Arc Raiders bird trap: A player looking at a red buoy on a dried-up seabed, with a glowing blue outline of a bird trap on the ground.
How to lay the bird trap to start the Avian Alarm project in Arc Raiders

By Rory Norris Published

Take Flock Monitor the initial flock intake for the Avian Alarm.

Take Flock
Arc Raiders Shoring Up Defenses: A player riding a zipline up the a red crane in Stacking Yard.
How to complete Shoring Up Defenses in Arc Raiders

By Rory Norris Published

Lookouts Repair the strongholds along the coastline.

Lookouts
Arc Raiders Riven Tides: Key art showing three characters posing with weapons at the ready.
The next Arc Raiders map drops today, and so does this evil floating cone

By Rory Norris Last updated

News The Riven Tides update is Arc Raiders' biggest yet.

News
Arc Raiders: A close-up of a character wearing the Recon outfit (the Season 4 Trials reward) while reloading a rifle, against a purple background.
Arc Raiders is finally overhauling its competitive Trials, starting with making them more fun and less frustrating

By Rory Norris Published

You can put your daily planner down now, raider.

Third Person Shooter
The Last of Us: A close, high-angle shot of Joel looking up with a stern expression, holding his guitar.
Cancelled The Last of Us Online director says it was 'the best multiplayer game' the team had ever played

By Rory Norris Published

News 'Never going to let what I work on not see the light of day again.'

News
A lumberjack character from Last Flag leaping towards the camera, with a tornado chasing him.
After a slow start, Last Flag developer says you can't become the next big hit just by ticking boxes: 'It’s a slippery slope'

By Rory Norris Published

And Arc Raiders' lead developer agrees.

Third Person Shooter
A close-up of Shephard from Mass Effect awkwardly smiling.
Mass Effect devs have been practically radio silent for over 5 years because there's 'not a lot of time for tease'

By Rory Norris Published

News It's coming. Eventually.

News
ShatterRush: A player running towards a yellow mech that's just crashed down in front of them.
This indie developer is making Titanfall 3 because EA won't do it, and even in 'pre-pre-pre alpha' it's one of the most fun shooters in years

By Rory Norris Published

ShatterRush is aiming to fill the Titan-sized void in my heart.

FPS
A chemist in a hazmat suit near a workbench
Best Schedule 1 mixing station recipes to grow your criminal empire

By Diego Perez Last updated

Cooking Learn all the most profitable recipes in this drug-dealing simulation videogame.

8 Comments
Cooking
The Heavy looks concerned
'Players don’t realise that their favourite games right now were already built with AI', says Google exec making AI tools

By Rory Norris Published

News Apparently you'll change your tune when you "realise" it's giving you more innovative games.

12 Comments
News
Marathon: A punk Vandal sitting in a chair hold her head up with her left hand.
Despite the negativity, Marathon was one of last month's best-selling games, though there's a catch

By Rory Norris Published

News It's a good start, but there's a lot of year left.

18 Comments
News
Fragmentary Order key art depicting three sci-fi soldierings (including a robot) stacked poster-like, with two VTOLs flying above them.
Tarkov lead vows to make the upcoming Fragmentary Order the opposite of Arc Raiders, which he calls an 'extraction shooter for casual people'

By Rory Norris Published

News "We’re trying to simulate reality".

21 Comments
News
Death Stranding 2 PC
Great work, gamers, we touched digital grass and walked 270,000 more miles than Artemis 2's historic mission around the moon last week

By Rory Norris Published

News We've one-upped astronauts going to the moon. I think.

News
arc raiders UFO
Arc Raiders' latest Riven Tides teaser hints that the terrifying UFO we've been seeing is actually the next mega-boss enemy

By Rory Norris Published

News Surely no UFO could ruin such a relaxing seaside paradise.

News
Overwatch 2's new hero Juno in her spacesuit and holding her mediblaster gun on a dark background
Doja Cat has spoken: 'I think I like Overwatch more than Marvel Rivals' after just one match

By Rory Norris Published

News "I’m gonna play Overwatch and I love Overwatch. You know what else I love? I love Juno."

News
Pragmata: Hugh and Diana high-fiving.
Pragmata has sold over 1 million copies in just 2 days, after 3 delays dragged out development by 4 years

By Rory Norris Published

News It's finally here, and it's actually good.

14 Comments
News
Forza Horizon 6: A white Honda with gold rims parked next to various other cars at a meet under a highway.
Forza Horizon 6 has reportedly already sold 500k on Steam a month before launch, while my beloved Motorsport has crashed into a brick wall

By Rory Norris Published

Being set in Japan after years of fan requests certainly helps.

7 Comments
Racing
Marathon: A Destroyer shell aiming a shotgun, with a Vandal and Assassin approaching in the background.
Marathon players are using new Mercy Kits to murder people twice: It's already been branded the 'most troll-friendly item imaginable'

By Rory Norris Published

The Mercy Kit murderers were inevitable, really.

FPS
A screenshot of The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot, showing the player holding a morningstar while three skeletons move towards them in a dark dungeon.
I've found a Dark Messiah-inspired action sandbox where you can make banana spike traps and possess enemies to walk off cliffs, and I need it now

By Rory Norris Published

Hitman Dark Messiah, Dishonored, and Hitman smushed together with a touch of Minecraft's charming cubes.

Hitman
Pragmata guide: Hugh excitedly standing next to the Cabin robot.
My full guide to Pragmata after spending 18 hours shepherding my space daughter

By Rory Norris Published

Making sense of every confusing term, activity, and more.

Third Person Shooter
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