Latest articles by Fraser Brown
From extensive lore-friendly research to diabolical wordplay: All the different ways we name our beloved videogame characters
Aliases Making a name for ourselves.
The best RPGs on PC
Updated! Discover your next epic adventure with our list of the most essential RPGs you can play on PC right now.
The remake of one of the best cult classics from one of the best years in gaming just dropped, and I have become 9 years old again
News Twinsen's back, baby.
Blizzard is trying to atone for the disaster that was Warcraft 3: Reforged nearly 5 years later with the 2.0 update, out today
News "When something is broken, you fix it."
Proposed class action lawsuit claims The Crew players were 'duped', bizarrely comparing the game shutting down to Ubisoft breaking into your house and stealing parts of a pinball machine
News The question of ownership in the digital age rears its head again.
Deus Ex director Warren Spector thinks that 'if someone made Deus Ex today it might be perceived as a documentary,' so if he made a new one it would be pretty different
News Please make a new one.
I desperately hope Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium inspire more RPG devs to reject the traditional drip, drip, drip of DLC and expansions
Endgame Playing finished games? It'll never catch on.
Warren Spector found working on his cancelled Half-Life episode 'a little frustrating', but he'll be 'forever grateful' to Valve for keeping his studio alive
News Junction Point's project was the first of two attempts to set an episode in Ravenholm.
Stardew Valley creator says he 'could work on it for the rest of my life' and wants to keep sharing new things with players
News "I want to keep it alive, keep it fresh, delight the fans."
The six best Dragon Age companions ever
FRIEND GAME A snarky witch, a beardless dwarf, and a talking statue walk into Ferelden...
How to romance Harding in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Romancing the stone Good things come in small packages.
Sega is delisting a huge number of its greatest classic games on Steam, probably so it can sell you a new collection
News If you already own them, nothing will happen to your games.
Take-Two's CEO generously calls the cataclysmically bad Borderlands movie 'disappointing', but it still ended up helping sales of the games
News "I don't think it hurt at all".
The best MMOs on PC
Fine Grinds The best MMOs, whether you love massive raids, playing through a great story on your own, or ruling a corporation
From the moody horror of Origins to the gleaming high fantasy of The Veilguard, few series have changed as much as Dragon Age
Dragon Ages 15 years of evolution.
One of the biggest names in immersive sims reckons they're easier to sell if you call them something else, but one day they'll be 'invading every genre'
News To be fair, they're pretty hard to explain.
These Dragon Age: The Veilguard players have done the impossible, making the qunari look nearly as awesome as they did in Dragon Age 2
News For the Qun!
7 tips for Dragon Age: The Veilguard that you might accidentally miss
Quick tips Don't overlook these less obvious features in The Veilguard.
Arkane's founder left because Bethesda 'did not want to do the kind of games that we wanted to make', and that's how it ended up with Redfall
News Redfall was a significant departure for Arkane, and culminated in the closure of the Arkane Austin studio.
Before you play Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you really should change the annoying wayfinding settings
News Unless you want to be dragged around by the nose for the entire game.
Baldur's Gate 3 players have downloaded 50 million mods since official support was added, and Larian is 'glad [it] could facilitate' 10,000 players renaming Withers to Bone Daddy
News The most important mod.
Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was a 'dumb move', says founder and former president
News "It's obvious that Arkane Austin was a very special group of people that have made some cool things and that could pull it off again."
A humble wardrobe is my favourite Dragon Age: The Veilguard feature
Thedas Fashion Week Nobody cares if you save the world unless you look stylish doing it.
