Latest articles by Fraser Brown
Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
Bargain Dates, biggest discounts, tips, annual Steam sale dates, and more.
My favourite extraction shooter, The Forever Winter, adds a playable character with a functional gun for a head, tackles its most divisive mechanic and introduces its biggest region yet
News There's a lot going on in the December update.
'Fallout wasn't designed to have other players': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain was extremely wary of turning it into an MMO
News Long before Fallout 76, we almost had Fallout Online, but Cain had serious doubts.
Sins of a Solar Empire 2 makes space exciting again—and it's a brilliant 4X RTS to boot
🏆 Kaleidoscopic battles, colliding empires and a map that never sits still all make for a potent cosmic strategy game.
It's taken 30 years, but my PC has finally made it impossible for me to enjoy console gaming
Rest in PC There's been a murder!
Fallout's Tim Cain spent 6 years working on defunct MMO WildStar, twice as long as any other game, and thinks that might have something to do with why it failed
News "Games had shifted."
Path of Exile 2 passive skill respecs will no longer cost Scrooge McDuck levels of gold
News Experiment away, Exiles!
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain hasn't made sequels to his other cult classic RPGs because they didn't sell well: 'You should have bought it'
News "Sometimes gamers need to put their money where their mouth is."
Warframe's bonkers 1999 update sneaks out today: Y2K, dating, boy bands, motorbikes—it's gonna be a weird weekend
News Take a trip back in time.
Star Wars: The Old Republic's modernisation update has turned some players' characters into corpses, flattened abs and introduced other quirks: 'Look how they massacred my boy'
News The update has been welcomed by some, but there are several issues that developer Broadsword has acknowledged and plans to rectify.
Path of Exile 2's character customisation can't compete with Diablo 4's hellishly good drip, but the good news is you'll barely notice
Wraeclast Fashion Week Nobody is visiting Wraeclast for cute fits.
Star Wars: The Old Republic's big modernisation plan kicks off today, giving players an excuse to revisit old haunts
News Old Republic, new look.
Steampunk CRPG New Arc Line turned me into a murderous, drug-addled inventor with a giant assistant, and despite its rough edges it won me over
Picking up steam The power of its setting and its dense systems make it easier to overlook its missteps.
10 Path of Exile 2 tips to get started in Wraeclast
Tips and tricks Delve into a dark and doomed world and pulverize some monster hordes.
I hate the cliche, but Path of Exile 2 really is the Dark Souls of isometric dungeon crawlers
Bossing around And it's only heightened my obsession.
When Path of Exile 2 early access ends, Grinding Gear Games won't be murdering your beloved characters
News But they won't be able to live it up in the standard league either.
PlayStation co-CEO spits out a bizarre prediction about the future of AI and gaming—one I pray never happens
News He needs to give that crystal ball another polish.
FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki says the studio doesn't 'have any particular plans to develop Elden Ring 2', but that doesn't mean the 'Elden Ring IP' is over
News Don't say goodbye to the Tarnished just yet.
It's been a decade since Endless Legend, the 4X genre's most inventive weirdo and the closest thing we've got to a modern Alpha Centauri, launched—we're long overdue another one
Legendary Now an independent studio again, I'm really hoping Amplitude is already on it.
Baldur's Gate 3 is going out with a big bang by adding 12 new subclasses, so you can finally become a drunken master or maybe just befriend some bees, along with crossplay and a photo mode
News The end of the RPG's feature-heavy updates is in sight, but some good stuff is still coming next year.
In Stalker 2's horror-filled Zone, nothing is more terrifying than encountering a small, malnourished dog
Quit hounding me They must smell my sausages.
Even if Avowed does well, it doesn't sound like we'll get Pillars of Eternity 3, at least not from Josh Sawyer: 'I am more interested in doing original IP'
News Pillars 2 really burned him out, and Avowed is now the future of the series.
Palworld wasn't 'snubbed' by The Game Awards, says community manager: 'Stop being so over dramatic gamers'
News "Not everything is a conspiracy," he says.
