Robert Zak
Robert is a freelance writer and chronic game tinkerer who spends many hours modding games then not playing them, and hiding behind doors with a shotgun in Hunt: Showdown. Wishes to spend his dying moments on Earth scrolling through his games library on a TV-friendly frontend that unifies all PC game launchers.
Latest articles by Robert Zak

Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced is a bitter-sweet return to Rockstar's money-making machine
By Robert Zak published
Last hurrah A reminder of everything good and bad about the vast criminal caper.

Undisputed has added Jake Paul DLC and given the YouTube grandad-basher a rating equivalent to two-time world champion Ricky Hatton
By Robert Zak last updated
News The new DLC comes alongside a free update with new arenas and improvements to the career mode.

Avowed's inert cities remind me just how good we had it in Skyrim and Oblivion
By Robert Zak published
The Unliving Lands Without reactivity, there can be no immersion.

A long-awaited RPG release hits PC Game Pass Day One this month
By Robert Zak published
Presented by Microsoft
Plus what else we're playing in the great February gaming glut, as nobody else is calling it.

How to make money fast in Avowed
By Robert Zak published
Skeyt Making a living in the Living Lands.

How to find and use lockpicks in Avowed
By Robert Zak published
Picking You'll never have to worry about running out of 'picks again.

My respec in Avowed turned the combat from Skyrim into Dishonored, and now I'm having a blast as an invisible parkour sword-mage
By Robert Zak published
DISAVOWED Finally, a game has broken me of my phobia of do-overs.

This month's PC Game Pass offering features sweet RPGs and brutal actioners from the Far East
By Robert Zak published
It's time to get Persona-l.

Civilization 7 review: Lighter and leaner
By Robert Zak published
Civ-lite Lighter and leaner, Civilization 7 sets its sights on assimilating a new audience.

Some 20 hours in, I can say that Civilization 7's age transitions are the series' most radical and disruptive mechanic yet
By Robert Zak published
New age Entering a new age feels like a soft reset of the game, which may be just what the series needed.

11 years and $750 million later, Star Citizen now has a new star system and MMO-scale server sizes
By Robert Zak published
News Version 4.0 brings big changes, but it still feels like there's a long way to go.

Diablo 4 is free until January and lets you play as its most busted class, so go on a rampage before Blizzard nerfs it
By Robert Zak published
News Give yourself the gift of endless loot this holiday season.

The maddest shooters of 2024 and 2020 join forces, as Ultrakill crosses over into Mullet Madjack
By Robert Zak published
News As if Mullet Madjack could get any more hectic, it now has a Boss Rush Mode with Ultrakill's toughest enemy.

XDefiant's closing-down content dump is enormous, unprecedented, and bleak
By Robert Zak published
News It turns out that the game criticised for lack of content had tons of content all along.

Ubisoft releases new Blood Dragon game... with NFTs
By Robert Zak published
News Not the video game debut Captain Laserhawk would've hoped for.

Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024
By Robert Zak published
News Steam's end-of-year review of what we play and how we play makes for some interesting reading.

PC VR wizard is gearing up to weave his magic on Ubisoft's 2023 open-world adventure
By Robert Zak published
News Bringing the total number of Luke Ross' VR conversions of PC games up to 26.

This upcoming RPG is injecting a healthy dose of magic, demons, and steampunk gizmos into 19th-century Japan
By Robert Zak published
News The publisher of Pathfinder and Rogue Trader is adding to its solid RPG library.

Skull and Bones is reportedly going to remain supported for Year 2, despite no one playing it
By Robert Zak published
News Ubisoft's naval online game looks like it's staying afloat for now, but the numbers don't look good.

'Negotiations are underway' for a Stalker 2 Netflix show, because bleak post-apocalyptic fiction and Chornobyl are a killer TV combo
By Robert Zak published
News GSC Game World owner Maxim Krippa also reiterated plans for story expansions and multiplayer.

Ill-fated co-op slasher Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance disappears in February, though will still be playable solo
By Robert Zak published
News Not many will miss the shaky hack-and-slasher, though our reviewer certainly will.

Play a whole bunch of Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, and other Ubisoft classics for just $1
By Robert Zak published
News The Ubisoft Classics subscription is only $1 right now and gets you access to over 100 Ubisoft games.

You can now leap across levels as a Rat Ogre in Warhammer: Vermintide 2
By Robert Zak published
News The new boss enemy joins its buddy the Bile Troll in the game's recently released Versus mode.
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