Mollie Taylor
Mollie spent her early childhood deeply invested in games like Killer Instinct, Toontown and Audition Online, which continue to form the pillars of her personality today. She joined PC Gamer in 2020 as a news writer and now lends her expertise to write a wealth of features, guides and reviews with a dash of chaos. She can often be found causing mischief in Final Fantasy 14, using those experiences to write neat things about her favourite MMO. When she's not staring at her bunny girl she can be found sweating out rhythm games, pretending to be good at fighting games or spending far too much money at her local arcade.
Latest articles by Mollie Taylor
Fighting gamers are eating good: I've never been so happy to see the genre flourishing during Summer Game Fest
By Mollie Taylor published
the good fight Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and Sparking Zero dominated the early half of Summer Game Fest and it was glorious.
Monster Hunter Wilds is going all in on its chocobo-looking Seikret mounts by letting you go right into battle while you're on 'em
By Mollie Taylor published
news I am so irrationally excited to attack monsters while riding my giant chicken.
If you're also desperate to pad out your Honkai: Star Rail funds after that livestream, Summer Game Fest has you covered with a little treat
By Mollie Taylor published
news You can grab a code from the Summer Game Fest TikTok right now.
I'm terrified of heights but Cairn makes me want to immediately grab my carabiner and scale a huge mountain
By Mollie Taylor published
news The developer behind Furi and Haven is making a climbing game about ascending an unconquered summit.
Choo-Choo Charles creator is back with bizarre joint-smoking, prison-breaking alien koalas and some slightly nauseating physics-based mayhem
By Mollie Taylor published
news Cuffbust is "coming 2025 maybe, IDK TBH".
PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 64: Weird brand tie-ins
By Mollie Taylor published
Podcast Mollie, Lauren and Tyler Colp talk about the weird and wonderful world of videogame brand tie-ins.
Yoshi-P will turn Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail around if players keep asking for a raise spell on Pictomancer, jokes: 'it'd be best to remove raise from all of those jobs' if they don't behave
By Harvey Randall published
News Ease-of-use.
FF14 director Yoshi-P says 'possibly 98%' of the team are inspired by Elden Ring, but assures players Dawntrail won't be as brutally hard
By Tyler Colp published
news The environmental design and atmosphere are where you'll probably see the most inspiration, he says.
Final Fantasy 14's low-poly grapes may have left us, but blocky food lives on in Dawntrail and I ranked them all because why not
By Mollie Taylor published
cubed cuisine I freakin' love low-poly food, y'all.
I can't believe I had to go back to regular crusty Final Fantasy 14 after witnessing Dawntrail's stunning graphical overhaul first-hand
By Mollie Taylor published
dawn of a new day Dawntrail's had a facelift, but it's still the same old Final Fantasy 14.
'Players don't need to worry about that': Final Fantasy 14 director says the team is well-armed for Dawntrail's launch rush, no repeat of the Endwalker queue fiasco or day-long DDoS attacks
By Mollie Taylor published
news More servers and better ways of dealing with DDoS attacks have left Naoki Yoshida feeling confident.
Final Fantasy 14 director doesn't have any plans to change 'the structure' of Dawntrail's patches, but its Bozja-like field exploration zone 'will be larger in scale than the content we've had in the past'
By Mollie Taylor published
news "There is a benefit for the players, but also there's a benefit for us as the developers."
Competitive Tekken 8 match causes a frenzy after a rogue controller 'robbed' pro player of a game-winning combo
By Mollie Taylor published
news An unfortunate match disruption has ended in controversy.
As the Sims 4 continues to buckle under the weight of over $1,200 worth of DLC, EA has 'assembled a team' to focus on bug fixes
By Mollie Taylor published
news Hopefully it'll feel less like the game is being held together by sticks and chewing gum.
I didn't have high hopes for the MultiVersus relaunch but brand-new PvE missions and a silly banana guy with a spear are changing my mind
By Mollie Taylor published
back to the multiverse The re-release looks pretty good, actually.
MultiVersus has scrubbed the Justin Roiland voice lines snagged from Rick & Morty, replacing them with game-specific recordings by their new voice actors
By Mollie Taylor published
news Roiland was dropped from the Adult Swim show last year following domestic violence allegations.
Final Fantasy 14 is helping us poor souls who spend hours creating a character only to absolutely hate it by giving its transformation potion a 60-minute grace period
By Mollie Taylor published
news Fantasias will allow players an hour of playtime to go back and make any additional changes in the character creator.
PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 61: (Development) hell hath no fury
By Mollie Taylor published
Podcast Mollie, Lauren and Robin Valentine talk about games in development hell.
Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the ongoing DDoS problems are the 'largest scale' attacks seen since the game's original 2010 launch
By Mollie Taylor published
news Sporadic attacks have been hitting servers worldwide since early May.
My penchant for yapping keeps getting me into trouble when the words I type could accidentally kill me
By Mollie Taylor published
wordsmith Cryptmaster is a wickedly fun typing dungeon crawler.
Tekken 8's newest cash shop skin commits the cardinal sin of forgetting Lili's skirt lace, Harada reassures fans he'll 'request a fix from the costume team' for his wrongdoings
By Mollie Taylor published
news The Tekken cash shop is not beating the lazy allegations.
Metaphor: ReFantazio is 100% shaping up to be medieval Persona and I cannot wait
By Mollie Taylor published
News Atlus has gotten its modern formula down pat.
Activision Blizzard set to cough up $23.4M after losing a 9-year-long patent infringement battle, but claims 'We have never used the patented technologies at issue in our games'
By Mollie Taylor published
news It was first sued by tech incubator Acceleration Bay in 2015.
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