Jody Macgregor
Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.
Latest articles by Jody Macgregor
Generative AI is dividing RPG fans: Can AI really play Dungeons & Dragons, and should it?
By Jody Macgregor published
AI DM You taught an AI to play chess? Great. Now teach it to run a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition campaign in the Planescape setting using the 2024 rules.
Final Fantasy 7 retranslation mod promises English-speaking players an experience 'as close as possible to that of Japanese-speaking players'
By Jody Macgregor published
News Let's mosey.
Rogue Waters is a cross between Pirates of the Caribbean, Slay the Spire, and XCOM
By Jody Macgregor published
Even Stranger Tides Don't get it confused with Rouge Waters, a different game that's about makeup application on the high seas.
Every Warhammer 40,000 game, ranked
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Updated 💀 We played them all to determine which games about space marines, space orks, tech-priests and tyranids are worth your time.
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.
PAX Australia's cosplay competition was won by a meticulously outfitted Halsin
By Jody Macgregor published
News "Oak Father preserve you."
420 Blaze It 2 may be a joke, but there's a solid shooter buried beneath the memes
By Jody Macgregor published
PAX Aus My fellow sickos can play the demo now.
Death of a Partisan is one survival game where I didn't starve to death, thank goodness
By Jody Macgregor published
PAX AUS I did get shot by a German soldier and bleed out in the snow, however.
The Kamala Harris campaign is going to stream World of Warcraft tonight to court the gamer vote
By Jody Macgregor published
News WoW? More like "Wow, get off the computer and go vote."
Nintendo fans wished for new hardware, the monkey's paw curled, and they got an alarm clock
By Jody Macgregor published
News It's called Alarmo. That's not a joke.
Silent Hill 2 players are modding away the fog and freeing the camera to discover hidden detail in the remake
By Jody Macgregor published
News There was fog here. It's gone now.
The next game in the Like a Dragon series was almost a fishing game: 'I wanted to make a game called Like a Dragon: Tuna'
By Jody Macgregor published
News We came this close to Dragon of Dojima the Diver.
The FPS/mecha hybrid from the creator of Cruelty Squad, which was an immersive sim designed to make you feel sick, will be out next year
By Jody Macgregor published
News Psycho Patrol R is coming to early access on Steam.
The coolest Prime Day board game deals, as picked by our tabletop gaming obsessives
By Wes Fenlon published
Prime Day deals Here are the board games we'd buy from Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event this week.
343 Industries becomes Halo Studios, confirms switch to Unreal Engine: 'The original Halo franchise was a graphics showcase, it was best-in-class… and that's what Halo needs to be again'
By Jody Macgregor published
News Apparently there are 'multiple Unreal-powered projects in development'.
A 31-year treasure hunt has finally ended
By Jody Macgregor published
News An owl statue worth $165,000 was the prize.
Magic: The Gathering followed its fuzzy animal set with one based on slasher movies and horror novels, a juxtaposition that was 'both a coincidence and deliberate'
By Jody Macgregor published
From Duskmourn Until Dawn So says developer/designer and former pro Magic hall of famer Mike Turian.
The best horror games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
UPDATED These are the best horror games you can play on PC.
The best FPS games on PC
By Morgan Park last updated
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
Revisiting the D&D games of my youth really makes me appreciate how much better things are today
By Jody Macgregor published
Reinstall I don't know if Curse of the Azure Bonds has aged badly, but I sure have.
Diablo 4 has made over $150M from microtransactions, achieved over $1B in lifetime revenue
By Jody Macgregor published
News That's a lot of malfeasance tokens.
Confused by Warhammer 40,000? Now you can learn 40K lore with Space Marine 2's lead voice actor
By Jody Macgregor published
News "Life here is bleak. It's a real bad time for humanity."
Pocketpair confirms Palworld isn't turning into a live-service game and won't be free-to-play: 'We are not changing our game's business model'
By Jody Macgregor published
News You can calm down now.
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