Robert Jones
Rob is editor of PC Gamer magazine and has been PC gaming since the early 1990s, an experience that has left him with a life-long passion for first person shooters, isometric RPGs and point and click adventures. Professionally Rob has written about games, gaming hardware and consumer technology for almost twenty years, and before joining the PC Gamer team was deputy editor of T3.com, where he oversaw the website's gaming and tech content as well its news and ecommerce teams. You can also find Rob's words in a series of other gaming magazines and books such as Future Publishing's own Retro Gamer magazine and numerous titles from Bitmap Books. In addition, he is the author of Super Red Green Blue, a semi-autobiographical novel about games and gaming culture. Recreationally, Rob loves motorbikes, skiing and snowboarding, as well as team sports such as football and cricket.
Latest articles by Robert Jones
The time PC Gamer gave a Star Trek game just 8%: ‘If this were any worse, it would be offensive’
By Robert Jones published
Set phasers to s**t Astonishingly poor festering nonsense of the highest caliber
The god game that flew too close to the sun
By Robert Jones published
Tactical tyranny Looking back at the flawed but ambitious Black & White 2.
PC Gamer UK November issue on sale now: MechWarrior 5: Clans
By Robert Jones published
Magazine Plus: Stalker 2, Homeworld 3, Space Marine 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Shadow Gambit, wireless gaming mice, and much more!
Starfield bug means you can just take this entire store's inventory out of a muddy puddle in the middle of a road without any skill or repercussions
By Robert Jones last updated
News And you can then do it again 24 hours later, too
Starfield bug means you can just stroll up and take one of the best spacesuits right at the start of the game with no skill or repercussions
By Robert Jones last updated
News Grab the Mark I Spacesuit now
How to change the FOV in Starfield
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Star-field of view Having issues with Starfield's FOV? You're not alone, but luckily there's a fix.
Shirtless halfling legend blows up Baldur's Gate 3's entire goblin camp with hundreds of explosive barrels to classical music
By Robert Jones last updated
News Talk about explosive results
By Tymora, it's time we recognised Baldur's Gate 3 is one of the greatest video game events ever
By Robert Jones last updated
Legendary feat We're living through a seminal moment in the history of PC gaming
Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Editions are so in demand resale prices are now exceeding $2,000
By Robert Jones published
News Over seven times the standard retail price and climbing
PC Gamer UK October issue on sale now: Starfield & Top 100 PC Games 2023
By Robert Jones published
Magazine Plus: Armored Core 6, Six Days in Fallujah, Sea of Stars, Jagged Alliance 3, Dave the Diver, Enshrouded, and much more!
Sorry Shadowheart, but Lae'zel is now my cleric's 'hot githyanki girlfriend' in Baldur's Gate 3, and it's exhilarating
By Robert Jones last updated
Stolen heart Talk about a romance narrative ambush
The producer of Netflix's Witcher can blame Americans and young people for its failings all day, but the fact is a no-budget YouTube fan film does it better
By Robert Jones last updated
Witcher craft Alzur's Legacy hits hard considering its tiny budget.
PC Gamer UK September issue on sale now: Baldur's Gate III
By Robert Jones published
Magazine Plus: Phantom Liberty, Prince of Persia, RuneScape, Star Wars Outlaws, Total War: Pharaoh, Payday 3, and much more!
Cyberpunk 2077 mod lets you pay off cops and hire them to smoke your enemies
By Robert Jones published
Hotline NCPD Who you gonna call? NCPD!
PC Gamer UK August issue on sale now: Broken Roads
By Robert Jones published
Magazine Plus: Street Fighter 6, Classified: France '44, Exoprimal, MotoGP 23, System Shock, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, and much more!
I replayed Duke Nukem Forever 12 years later and, yeah, I've got opinions
By Robert Jones published
Fail to the King Duke's dead and deservedly so, but I think he could be resurrected
I can't function unless my PC gaming desk is immaculate, so here are my 5 top tips for ensuring a Zen-level aesthetic
By Robert Jones published
Tidy PC gaming is only good when I’m in my happy place.
The ultimate McDonald's tie-in toy has arrived, a McNugget that plays Tetris
By Robert Jones published
News I'm rotatin' it
Freaky visuals and pixel-perfect metroidvania gameplay make the second outing of The Penitent One a cult classic in the making
By Robert Jones published
Holy moly It would be heretical to think otherwise
PC Gamer UK July issue on sale now: Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
By Robert Jones published
Magazine Plus: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Shadows of Doubt, Dead Island 2, Jagged Alliance 3, Age of Wonders 4, and much more!
As someone who grew up playing Doom and Quake, Warhammer 40K: Boltgun is like returning home
By Robert Jones published
Bolt-fun Warhammer 40K: Boltgun is the ultraviolet, gore-drenched retro boomer shooter upgrade of my dreams
If you're planning to upgrade to an ultrawide gaming monitor, don't overlook the one critical mistake I made
By Robert Jones published
Aspect ratioed Just make sure you factor this in when making an ultrawide monitor purchase for PC gaming
PC Gamer UK June issue on sale now: Diablo 4
By Robert Jones published
Magazine Plus: Wayfinder, Resident Evil 4, Everspace 2, Hunt: Showdown, Wartales, Dredge, WH40K: Boltgun, Outcast, and much more!
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