Fraser Brown
Fraser is the UK online editor and has actually met The Internet in person. With over a decade of experience, he's been around the block a few times, serving as a freelancer, news editor and prolific reviewer. Strategy games have been a 30-year-long obsession, from tiny RTSs to sprawling political sims, and he never turns down the chance to rave about Total War or Crusader Kings. He's also been known to set up shop in the latest MMO and likes to wind down with an endlessly deep, systemic RPG. These days, when he's not editing, he can usually be found writing features that are 1,000 words too long or talking about his dog.
Latest articles by Fraser Brown
![Several characters from Metaphor: ReFantazio in profile, one of which appears to be a humanoid sugar glider.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RwPTrespF3ciucxZV4rkVS-320-80.png)
To mark the launch of Metaphor: ReFantazio, Sega is going to make someone a real-life noble, but there's a catch—you'll be joining the nobility of an illegitimate nation in the North Sea with only one resident
By Fraser Brown published
News At least you get a fancy title.
![A modern city](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UJZhpkdS8mcTbtptUyukwE-320-80.jpg)
Cities: Skylines 2 launched too early, says Paradox deputy CEO, but early access wouldn't have been a solution: 'A dev team that thinks they're going to have a nicer ride on an early access game, I think fool themselves'
By Fraser Brown published
News "The lesson learned is that we should probably not launch that early."
![Life By You - A character with dreadlocks wearing a yellow shirt in a conversation](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eRFJVEXmcELnxFVwi5oAiR-320-80.jpg)
Even after cancelling Life By You, Paradox would make another life sim, 'but in a different way'
By Fraser Brown published
News Unlike RPGs, the publisher still sees life sims as a good fit for its pillars.
![Brujah character art](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XtZ8Xszmkt2cPcrXyWqim5-320-80.jpg)
Paradox wants to get out of the RPG business: 'If Bloodlines 2, God willing, is successful, Bloodlines 3 [will be] done by someone else'
By Fraser Brown published
News It's time for someone else to shoulder the World of Darkness curse.
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Alien: Isolation is my favourite horror game because it's taken me an entire decade to finish it
By Fraser Brown published
Slow and steady Just in time for the anniversary.
![Fortnite jacked Peter Griffin](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tSQe3wrkZoL6QDonauRdoC-320-80.jpg)
Fortnite isn't the future, it's an anomaly, and Tim Sweeney is just another CEO wrongly predicting the death of big singleplayer games
By Fraser Brown published
Business as usual Singleplayer and multiplayer games will continue to coexist, just as they always have.
![Starfield - the Adoring Fan NPC, with his trademark mustard-yellow mohawk](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cofraeVwD6YcDfqKNSPX34-320-80.png)
Starfield's Shattered Space expansion hasn't been a smashing success on Steam: 'Less content than any Skyrim DLC'
By Fraser Brown published
News It's currently sitting at a Mixed rating, with 60% negative reviews.
![Alan Wake, a writer in a snazzy black suit, gives his all during The Herald of Darkness music video from Alan Wake 2.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ReVY6H8vKvkiuYPuH984Ed-320-80.png)
Remedy and Tencent enter into a $17m loan agreement that could lead to it owning a larger chunk of the Alan Wake developer
By Fraser Brown published
News The studio says the deal will help support its self-publishing endeavours.
![Stormtroopers](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4JuQJNURzESZovKSP99kcg-320-80.png)
Total War: Star Wars and Warhammer 40k could be disasters, but I don't know if I can go back to the historical settings
By Fraser Brown published
The War of the Worlds Total War: Warhammer has ruined me.
![Phil Spencer wearing a StarCraft T-shirt](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3BJmejpoiN3DGoe9PBPXBX-320-80.jpg)
Phil, buddy, you can't just tease StarCraft fans only to announce that the RTS is coming to Game Pass
By Fraser Brown published
News It's just cruel.
![Dino village](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NafTgYN7Haip9RsTFaGdsR-320-80.png)
I'm beyond excited for Threads of Time, the flashy Chrono Trigger-inspired RPG
By Fraser Brown published
News Fight robots and dinosaurs in a quest to restore the Time Knights.
![Power armour helmet](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pTAeELKNMo8kjjyAsXFfrM-320-80.jpg)
What it feels like to have your Fallout game declared non-canon by Todd Howard: 'It sucked'
By Fraser Brown published
News The actual third game in the series didn't get much love from Bethesda.
![A scavenger encountering a massive robot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8PFbuDP2vv8xnSeg4RuX6F-320-80.jpg)
My most anticipated extraction shooter of the year just launched in early access and the community is now fighting over the importance of regular hydration
By Fraser Brown published
News Waterworld.
![An indigenous leader](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LoNnhBGDhk4dJrVuEnM6A4-320-80.jpg)
GreedFall 2 is more than just a eurojank Dragon Age: Origins, and it's ticking a lot of my RPG boxes
By Fraser Brown published
Dragon Sage Time to mess up some colonisers.
![Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Taash looks upward with a serious expression](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dmHb6iddfWFBmg6g2xdabC-320-80.jpg)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard keeps reminding me that I'm still angry with BioWare for its crimes against the qunari
By Fraser Brown published
Hornery The Dragon Age 2 defender has logged on.
![A villainous clown](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/oHEYyXHBs6SytWUNMHthWV-320-80.jpg)
Broken Sword's remaster fixes the mistakes of the Director's Cut and is the perfect reminder that this is still one of gaming's greatest adventures
By Fraser Brown published
Coulrophobia Revolution's best adventure game gets the glow up it deserves.
![Cal Kestis and Merrin either summon a mighty force push, or are doing their best mime impression amidst an arid desert landscape.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PqtrvobQ3r38MNZmr7NYsb-320-80.jpg)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor finally Force-pushes Denuvo out the airlock in patch focused on performance improvements
By Fraser Brown published
News Patch 9 is out now.
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Yeah, at $700 the PS5 Pro is expensive for a console, but I spent more than double that on my GPU alone
By Fraser Brown published
Pro tip "Just get a gaming PC instead" isn't good advice for everyone.
![Mineraft movie - a pink sheep baas in a meadow](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/znTRDwHtoEFn3ZMK7Wq8VW-320-80.jpg)
These shot-for-shot remakes of the Minecraft Movie trailer make the official one look fake in comparison
By Fraser Brown published
News And make Jason Momoa look less demented.
![A scavenger encountering a massive robot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8PFbuDP2vv8xnSeg4RuX6F-320-80.jpg)
I spent an hour swearing, fleeing and dying in the machine-infested battlefields of The Forever Winter and cannot wait to do it again
By Fraser Brown published
Heavy metal Fun Dog's post-apocalyptic survival horror looter shooter is shaping up to be a brilliant nightmare.
![Battles in Stormgate, Homeworld 3 and Company of Heroes 3](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kmQpbNrmB8tJvQS5Nsy3Gm-320-80.jpg)
Real-time strategy almost came back from the brink of death and then fell flat on its face
By Fraser Brown published
RIP The RTS renaissance never happened and probably never will.
![Kay chilling out on a broken speeder](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Q4fGzQ3F7vUYbYnWCa3nTk-320-80.jpg)
Star Wars Outlaws is the most Star Wars a Star Wars game has been since Star Wars Galaxies
By Fraser Brown published
A new hope Star Wars.
![The War Within cinematic with Xal'atath looking victorious](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dvSiN6WfcjaggHCkuH8jnK-320-80.jpg)
The War Within murdered one of WoW's most important characters almost immediately, but I ain't writing him off until Blizzard shows me the body
By Fraser Brown published
Vanishing Act Xal'atath is too sneaky for a plain old execution.
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