Latest articles by Fraser Brown
MMOs had a great year in 2024, with the genre the liveliest it's been in years
They live Big updates, great expansions, and even some new entries.
Best RPG 2024: Metaphor: ReFantazio
🏆 Atlus graduates from high school and brings us its best JRPG yet.
After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare
RIP The Veilguard was the very shiny, very pretty nail in the coffin.
Ubisoft had an absolutely dire 2024 and desperately needs a win
Spiralling And I'm not convinced Assassin's Creed Shadows is going to be it.
OK, I take it back, Marvel Rivals is not an aggressively bad, unsalvageable mess—it might even be good
Hero's journey A Christmas miracle.
Fallout's original designer is fine with the direction of the modern games: 'They're both what they are, and a ton of people like it'
News "I'm the last person to want to yuck other people's yums."
Now that Lucy is somewhere around level 8, what do you want to see in the Fallout show's second season?
Gratz Our hopes and dreams for the second season.
Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
Bargain Dates, biggest discounts, tips, annual Steam sale dates, and more.
My favourite extraction shooter, The Forever Winter, adds a playable character with a functional gun for a head, tackles its most divisive mechanic and introduces its biggest region yet
News There's a lot going on in the December update.
'Fallout wasn't designed to have other players': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain was extremely wary of turning it into an MMO
News Long before Fallout 76, we almost had Fallout Online, but Cain had serious doubts.
Sins of a Solar Empire 2 makes space exciting again—and it's a brilliant 4X RTS to boot
🏆 Kaleidoscopic battles, colliding empires and a map that never sits still all make for a potent cosmic strategy game.
It's taken 30 years, but my PC has finally made it impossible for me to enjoy console gaming
Rest in PC There's been a murder!
Fallout's Tim Cain spent 6 years working on defunct MMO WildStar, twice as long as any other game, and thinks that might have something to do with why it failed
News "Games had shifted."
Path of Exile 2 passive skill respecs will no longer cost Scrooge McDuck levels of gold
News Experiment away, Exiles!
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain hasn't made sequels to his other cult classic RPGs because they didn't sell well: 'You should have bought it'
News "Sometimes gamers need to put their money where their mouth is."
Warframe's bonkers 1999 update sneaks out today: Y2K, dating, boy bands, motorbikes—it's gonna be a weird weekend
News Take a trip back in time.
Star Wars: The Old Republic's modernisation update has turned some players' characters into corpses, flattened abs and introduced other quirks: 'Look how they massacred my boy'
News The update has been welcomed by some, but there are several issues that developer Broadsword has acknowledged and plans to rectify.
Path of Exile 2's character customisation can't compete with Diablo 4's hellishly good drip, but the good news is you'll barely notice
Wraeclast Fashion Week Nobody is visiting Wraeclast for cute fits.
Star Wars: The Old Republic's big modernisation plan kicks off today, giving players an excuse to revisit old haunts
News Old Republic, new look.
