Tim Clark

Tim Clark

With over two decades covering videogames, Tim has been there from the beginning. In his case, that meant playing Elite in 'co-op' on a BBC Micro (one player uses the movement keys, the other shoots) until his parents finally caved and bought an Amstrad CPC 6128. These days, when not steering the good ship PC Gamer, Tim spends his time complaining that all Priest mains in Hearthstone are degenerates and raiding in Destiny 2. He's almost certainly doing one of these right now.

Latest articles by Tim Clark

Walt from Breaking Bad screencap
'Guardians make their own fate.' Destiny 2 players and creators celebrate following Bungie's shock U-turn, as the studio admits: 'Your voices mattered'

By Tim Clark Published

Fiery Team Are we actually so back, or is the elation premature?

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Fiery Team
Lucia from Grand Theft Auto 6 laying on a pink bed while scrolling on her phone
What do you think of the GTA 6 reveal?

By Andrea Shearon Published

Request for comment Was the Netflix preview everything you’ve ever wanted, or a dud?

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Request for comment
A collage of characters from the best FPS games on PC
The best FPS games on PC

By Morgan Park Last updated

Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.

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Tim Sweeney speaking at Unreal Fest 2026.
Tim Sweeney on the future of games, AI, and whether Valve will ever join forces with Epic: 'It's now clear that nobody's going to end up with an absolute monopoly'

By Tim Clark Published

Interview The Epic Games CEO discusses his vision for "Team Open," his objections to Steam's AI disclosure requirement, and the huge problems facing AAA game development.

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Interview
New armor sets arriving in Destiny 2's final update.
Destiny 2's final update – live coverage of the end of an era

By Phil Savage, Tim Clark Last updated

Live News, reactions, and maybe a stifled tear or two as the highly-influential FPS gets its last content update.

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Live
Caio Braga Embark
Our full chat with Embark: How Arc Raiders was saved mid-development, the balancing process, and the possibility of vehicles

By Morgan Park Published

Production designer Caio Braga talks balancing, high-profile game failures, and the passion for PvE in Arc raiders.

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Arc Raiders: A raider standing with a gun in their right hand, looking upwards at something out of shot, surrounded by red smoke.
Arc Raiders could one day get vehicles, but Embark says no promises: 'We have prototypes from seven years ago'

By Morgan Park Published

NEWS Imagine gunning it across Spaceport on a dirt bike.

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NEWS
Arc Raiders: An upper-body shot of a character wearing warm clothes as they fiddle with something out of shot in a snowy environment.
Embark's plans to rework Arc Raiders' account-wiping Expeditions: 'We didn't have time to shift the system to what we intend to do next'

By Rory Norris Published

News It may be an optional system, but Embark acknowledges there's work to be done to improve wipes.

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News
Arc Raiders extraction shooter
Arc Raiders' wall-breaking exploits took so long to fix because they were 'intrinsic to the way the game is built': 'Those things are very risky to patch rapidly'

By Rory Norris Published

News Making games remains hard, in case you had any doubts.

News
A raider cooking a tick in Arc Raiders.
Arc Raiders full interview: 'Nobody whatsoever thought we'd have this many players'

By Rory Norris Published

State of the Game Embark's thoughts on matchmaking, the state of PvPvE, and the future of its ambitious live-service extraction shooter.

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State of the Game
Arc Raiders Celeste's Journals - Celeste
Saving blueprints after an Expedition isn't 'off the table', says Arc Raiders' director, but Embark is also looking at alternatives

By Rory Norris Published

News Imagine the scenario: Do you keep the Looting Mk. 3 (Survivor) or the Anvil?

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News
Arc Raiders Aphelion blueprint: A raider wearing a blue and orange space-age jumpsuit while fighting a Leaper.
Congrats, you played yourself, Arc Raiders' machines aren't actually learning: 'That's just the way we author them'

By Rory Norris Published

News Players had begun to wonder whether the robot enemies were using AI to learn new tactics based on player behaviour, but Embark has shot the theory down.

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News
Arc Raiders: Key art featuring two raiders holding weapons and standing in the middle of the road, turning to run away from a large Queen spider-like robot on the buildings in the background.
Embark admits Arc Raiders’ bosses are dying too fast because 'they're not intended for the full server to go up against' and 'we gave players too effective abilities'

By Rory Norris Published

News "When we built that, we had an idealised way where we hoped people would try to engage with it".

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News
Arc Raiders: Key art of a raider looking over their shoulder in a forest to look at another raider aiming at them in the distance.
Arc Raiders' matchmaking isn't 'binary', says design lead: 'There's no such thing as a friendly lobby or an aggressive lobby'

By Rory Norris Published

News "We acknowledge that people are having a lot of fun with these safer lobbies".

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News
Arc Raiders Trophy Display: Key art showing three characters. The one on the left is wearing a blue pincho and holding a pistol ready at their hip. The middle figure is wearing a brown poncho and cowboy hat, facing the camera with a pistol across their chest. On the right is another character in a brown poncho and hat but facing away.
Arc Raiders design director says players 'never worked together' in testing, but the emergence of care bear lobbies 'encourages us to lean toward giving opportunities to have friendly interactions'

By Harvey Randall Published

News Catering to both PvE and PvP-heavy audiences is a "precarious position".

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News
arc raiders flickering flame update
My Arc Raiders 2026 wishlist consists of new mobs, modes, and map conditions

By Elie Gould Published

Wishlist New Year, same wishes.

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Wishlist
Swen Vincke with an armful of Golden Joystick Awards.
Swen Vincke says there's 'definitely more pressure' to nail Divinity after the critical acclaim of Baldur's Gate 3

By Wes Fenlon Published

news You might think making the sequel to the most popular D&D game ever was as high pressure as it gets, but nope.

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Divinity cinematic reveal
Divinity is 'past pre-production' and already recording actors, but don't read too much into that: Swen Vincke says Larian will be 'recording non-stop'

By Wes Fenlon Published

news "That gives you an idea of the ambition."

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A fantasy guy raises a tankard of beer.
Divinity will be turn-based with a 'new ruleset' based on everything Larian has learned so far, says Swen Vincke: 'it allows you to do fantastic things'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news No Divinity ARPG for thee, we're keeping things old school.

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Divinity cinematic reveal
Divinity has even 'deeper sequences of consequence' than Baldur's Gate 3, says Larian: 'We wouldn't be excited if we were making the same game again'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news "The level of agency that we're going to give you is very, very high⁠—much higher than what happened in BG3."

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Marathon screen
Bungie takes its second shot at revealing Marathon: $40 price tag, proximity chat, solo queue, and March release confirmed

By Andy Chalk Published

news A new vidoc reveals the major changes Bungie has made to its sci-fi extraction shooter since its alpha earlier this year met with mixed results.

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news
Arc Raiders Ryder skin
Arc Raiders interview: Embark talks behavior-based matchmaking, map updates, and playing nice with strangers

By Morgan Park Published

NEWS Watch our full interview with Embark art director Robert Sammelin.

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NEWS
Arc Raiders loot guide: Three raiders standing shoulder to shoulder in Buried City. The one of the left is reaching for something in their pocket, the character in the middle, wearing an astronaut helmet, is casually looking up, while the one on the right in cowboy attire is aiming their pistol.
Arc Raiders devs are uplifted by how kind players have been to one another, but admit 'we're way worse people than the community' when it comes to engaging in PvP

By Elie Gould, Evan Lahti, Tim Clark Published

News Do the devs proud, bring in a defib.

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News
Arc Raiders Reveal in Ruins: An upper-body shot of Lance, the robot medic wearing sunglasses and a gun holster on his check, casually sitting in a chair in his room, lit by a neon medical sign.
'Our ambition is to keep this game alive for the longest time': Embark's devs want to keep working on Arc Raiders 'as long as players engage with it and have fun'

By Elie Gould, Evan Lahti, Tim Clark Published

News Sounds like a great plan to me.

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News
Arc Raiders extraction shooter
Your bloodlust does have consequences in Arc Raiders, as a dev confirms, 'we do analyse behaviour and match accordingly'

By Elie Gould, Evan Lahti, Tim Clark Published

News Aggression-based matchmaking confirmed?

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News
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