Jake Tucker
Jake Tucker is the editorial director of the PC Gaming Show but has worked as a journalist and editor at sites like NME, TechRadar, MCV and many more. He collects vinyl, likes first-person shooters and turn-based tactics games and hates writing bios. Jake currently lives in London, and is building a comprehensive list of the best places to eat in the city.
Latest articles by Jake Tucker
![Killing Floor 3 official screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/u3pB62ZFdhyJToq4ytTGJH-320-80.jpg)
Killing Floor 3 is an unapologetic throwback to the gory days of the horde shooter
By Jake Tucker published
Zed's dead New tech and some cool new additions bulk out a surprisingly old-school blaster.
![The protagonist of Sniper Elite: Resistance fires a weapon while carrying a body over his shoulder.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/786wc83CgBqHZ3r8zu3g2j-320-80.jpg)
Sniper Elite: Resistance review – A fun but inessential addition
By Jake Tucker published
Punching Nazis Rebellion's stealthy snipe 'em up series continues to deliver pulpy thrills.
![Doom: The Dark Ages screnshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/s9KFCMssBqURzNJs8jCY83-320-80.jpg)
The 11 big FPS games of 2025
By Jake Tucker published
HERE COMES 2025 2025 could be a landmark year for the FPS.
![Best Sandbox 2024: Satisfactory](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4LcJJyVEYdpFuBPvEDAfpQ-320-80.jpg)
Best Sandbox 2024: Satisfactory
By Wes Fenlon published
🏆 Take a lush, alien world. Turn it into a factory.
![Best FPS 2024: STRAFTAT](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZMbrXnW8xxUUQYs5dhxoHV-320-80.jpg)
Best FPS 2024: STRAFTAT
By Jake Tucker published
🏆 Our favourite shooter of the year was look all the best custom lobbies rolled into one.
![Path of Exile 2 early access class key art](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HqAr77E6M2ejBJHk72NEeg-320-80.jpg)
Playing Path of Exile 2 with WASD makes it feel like a true action game, and I'll never be able to go back to my mouse
By Jake Tucker published
Keyboard warrior I implore you to give it a try.
![Best Tactics 2024: Tactical Breach Wizards](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LHL7qjTbe4ECNL8YDY76FS-320-80.jpg)
Best Tactics 2024: Tactical Breach Wizards
By Harvey Randall published
🏆 Wizard casts defenestrate.
![Fortnite Ballistic FPS](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ynY3DfkaTzQVVpfUqvdyBd-320-80.png)
Ballistic, Fortnite's new tactical FPS mode, is a deeply unserious Counter-Strike clone that's going to be huge anyway
By Jake Tucker published
Where's Ecks? This tactical FPS reinvention will feel familiar to Fortnite and Counter-Strike plans, but right now it's clunky and dull.
![Delta Force](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5jhBa2JuJR4Hftpk83MweJ-320-80.jpg)
Delta Force's large scale combat reminds me of Battlefield's very best
By Jake Tucker published
HAWK OPS Delta Force is copying Battlefield's homework, but it's still easy to recommend.
![A spaceman in an elaborate set of red armour fistbumps the player.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X4eiyaz6gSS4RDNnCV7Qam-320-80.jpg)
Void Crew review: Lacks long-term depth, but already the best misfits-in-space game in the whole universe
By Jake Tucker published
Intergalactic, planetary Berate your friends in the vast nothingness of space in Void Crew.
![arc raiders](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jF8yHHtLGkVMP53rrVPodP-320-80.jpg)
Arc Raiders could be the extraction shooter that finally brings the genre to the masses
By Jake Tucker published
Robot Rock Fun, approachable, and visually stunning, Embark Studios might find a whole new audience of extraction shooter converts.
![project arc PUBG](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gEjvWBCRdxPJRxu9AjviYY-320-80.jpg)
The first PUBG spinoff with real promise is a top-down take on Rainbow Six Siege
By Jake Tucker published
DEATH FROM ABOVE When I wasn't getting ganked by Krafton devs, Project Arc was great fun.
![DayZ:Frostline](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PjFJEpDsFCtodwAgJExbTV-320-80.jpg)
DayZ's Frostline DLC makes the brutal survival game even more inhospitable
By Jake Tucker published
DayZed & Confused Hell frozen over.
![The Sims 4 - The Grim Reaper stands in a room that is on fire](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X2kx9eP3FkCatD4sq9uK6G-320-80.jpg)
The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100
By Phil Savage published
Top 100 We only have 100 spots to list. Not every game is going to make it.
![PC Gamer Top 100 2024](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/y2arqx3WECAFy9EHhfe8CH-320-80.jpg)
The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
![In Gray Zone Warfare, an assault rifle-wielding private military contractor advances through a field. Other combatants follow behind, while a scout helicopter flies in the distance.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NXNqWtAXixmGSMond39WgH-320-80.jpg)
Gray Zone Warfare's first big update is coming and it feels like a game-changer
By Jake Tucker published
Night and Day The Night Ops update is doing more than adding 24 hours to the day.
![Climbing a mountain in Cairn](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/StwGudnsXAm9dbPigjR8Yj-320-80.png)
Cairn might be the best climbing game I've ever played, and I wish it was released already
By Jake Tucker published
Ascended Do sweat the technique.
![Orcs Must Die! Deathrap war mages in front of an explosion](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/U3Rq4p74r4YuQTc2ZwTufV-320-80.png)
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap proves slaughtering orcs is like riding a bike, but way more fun
By Jake Tucker published
Gnome mercy Orcs Must Die!'s roguelite return is more than just a nostalgia hit.
![Arena Breakout: Infinite screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6iGQ4heqJhuzk7bhQ6N3aU-320-80.jpg)
Arena Breakout: Infinite is a snack-sized Tarkov I can't stop playing, but has some awful monetisation
By Jake Tucker published
Storage Wars Arena Breakout is full of interesting ideas, if you can stomach the free-to-play systems.
![Ready or Not screenshot - SWAT cop apparently startled by a woman standing behind him, seen through her legs](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eFQnXhqVBNA5qCT73HENP5-320-80.jpg)
Ready or Not's new expansion takes the tense shooter action to new heights, but the politics hit rock bottom
By Jake Tucker published
Police Story Storm warning.
![Dark Souls 2 art](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xE6DG35sZvSVNyCzEDCVzG-320-80.jpg)
What do we want FromSoftware to do after Shadow of the Erdtree?
By Wes Fenlon published
Bets placed The Elden Ring studio's next project is a complete mystery, but we've got some theories. Okay, requests.
![Killing Floor 3](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iHY9LjSLC72xZ5GatfcUHW-320-80.jpg)
Killing Floor 3 looks like essential co-op carnage and I can't wait to jump in with friends
By Jake Tucker published
Fatal Floor Tripwire’s venerable shooter is back and turning the dials up to 11.
![XDefiant promo art - three XDefiant soldiers and an XDefiant robot dog charging at an enemy](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/e4bN9fqgQQZcbrScDxEmLC-320-80.jpg)
Behind its identikit theme and terrible name, XDefiant is the perfect antidote to those tired of Call of Duty’s modern-day bloat
By Jake Tucker published
Defiantly good X(Defiant) gon’ give it ya.
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