Shaun Prescott

Shaun Prescott

Australian Editor

Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.

Latest articles by Shaun Prescott

A collage of Steam Next Fest demo screenshots, including a man smoking, a girl driving a car, and a wizard wielding some kind of gore pile
The 50 most-played Steam Next Fest demos include 7 incremental games, 4 AI disclosures, and only one instance of haystack slop

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Ten years ago, this list would have shocked most PC gamers.

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Tim Sweeney speaking at Unreal Fest 2026.
Steam Week in Review: AI disclosures enter the discourse again, as Epic CEO calls them 'just as partisan as mandatory political essays'

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending October 25.

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Full of Steam
Mass Effect 3
The next Mass Effect would have had 'a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match', according to BioWare veteran

By Shaun Prescott Published

News BioWare had paid attention to Larian and CD Projekt.

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Josef and Berta in Machinarium 2
Machinarium AI tribute cops a flogging from studio: 'This looks disgusting and has nothing to do with us or our craft'

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News Three cheers for the slop intolerant.

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A big green monster wearing clothes runs along a brick road with a sense of great confidence
In this age of pervasive slop maybe we should be grateful for Shrek 2 Remastered

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Or maybe not.

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A vampire swirls a glass of red wine, or blood, in a dimly lit throne room
'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Opus 5.5 continues to wreak havoc among independent devs.

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Two GameSir PC gaming controllers on a silver and white gradient background, with the "PC Gamer Recommended" badge in the top right
Best PC controllers in 2026: I've tested lots of gamepads and these get my recommendation

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Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.

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Key art for ReVamp, showing a vampiric lord placing his hand over a sprawling demonic castle bathed in the blood red of his cloak.
Moonlighter studio won't host a public playtest of its next game due to rampant AI-led cloning: 'We know we're not the only developers feeling this way'

By Shaun Prescott Published

News ReVamp will get a limited Discord playtest.

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Three games involving punching or destroying a wall
Steam Week in Review: Steam Next Fest has over 8,000 demos, as worthless vibe coded slop levels up

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending October 18.

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A detail from the Steam achievements page, and a Steam achievement icon
Steam achievements are getting a huge overhaul, with separate sets for DLC and season passes, and an easy way to compare with friends

By Shaun Prescott Published

News It's in beta now, but will likely release widely in about a month.

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Counter-Strike 2 header image
The best free PC games

By Shaun Prescott last updated

Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.

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Freebies Forever
Key art for League of Legends Classic, showing a large group of Champions wielding weapons in a surreal blue environment
3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'

By Shaun Prescott Published

News New Champions will continue to roll out for now.

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An angry face next to logos by DVD Video and Valve
Steam now has a maddening bouncing logo screensaver, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't perfectly hit the corners

By Shaun Prescott Published

News It sucks, get rid of it.

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Valve Index virtual reality headset on a table front right angle.
Valve is clearing out its discontinued Index VR headsets if you want a cheap piece of history

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The Steam Frame has rendered the tethered workhorse obsolete.

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A Star Wars and Marvel comic crossover called Hope Assembles, next to an image of Tim Sweeney
'Our humble goal is to survive the AI revolution' says Epic Games CEO, as its Star Wars and Marvel crossover pivots to 'AI first' development

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Art will be "generated with full AI workflows".

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Box art from Wonder Boy in Monster Land for Sega Master System, and a screenshot from the game showing Wonder Boy wielding a sword against a snake
Steam Week in Review: The curious case of Wonder Boy in Monster Land's dubious PC debut

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending October 11.

Full of Steam
A woman stands before a giant sword and red dragon
Steam sale deep cut alert: this ARPG originally developed for Nokia N-Gage is brilliant on Deck

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Xanadu Next isn't amazing, but it's endlessly charming.

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Three needle in haystack games, featuring imagery of haystacks and people sorting through them
Steam Week in Review: Great, haystack slop is a thing now

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending September 27.

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This chill procgen driving game has a very clever UI feature

By Shaun Prescott Published

Bigger games should adopt this.

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Microsoft's approach to age verification in Australia is further proof that Valve is taking the everloving piss

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Valve, are you hearing this?

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A graphic showing various PC gaming digital storefront logos
Where can Australians buy R18+ PC games without a credit card? Pretty much everywhere but Steam

By Shaun Prescott Published

Guide Valve has dropped the ball on implementing reasonable age verification measures, so it's time to look further afield.

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Coen, the Blood of Dawnwalker protagonist, looking at his clenched fist.
Should action games let us skip the action?

By Shaun Prescott Published

News The Blood of Dawnwalker may be doing it, and it won't even be the first to do so in 2026.

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Three screenshots from three Hard Shark Games titles
Steam Week in Review: This indie publisher released 29 terrible-looking Steam games in a single day—will they make any money?

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending September 20.

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A strange monster approaches in a tranquil forest
GTA 6 has turned October into a new release bloodbath, but AA first-person soulslike Valor Mortis is hellbent on entering the fray

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Going with a $40 price point will make it an "and game".

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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Ubisoft is 'testing' making its games far less annoying to launch on Steam

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Ubisoft Connect, your time is up.

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