Jody Macgregor

Jody Macgregor

Weekend/AU Editor

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 (opens in new tab). He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun (opens in new tab), The Big Issue, GamesRadar (opens in new tab), Zam (opens in new tab), Glixel (opens in new tab), Five Out of Ten Magazine (opens in new tab), and Playboy.com (opens in new tab), 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.

Articles by: Jody Macgregor

A huge, fiery spell being cast against giant spiders in Hogwarts Legacy.

Hogwarts Legacy almost had a morality and reputation system

By Jody Macgregor published

News "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. Not that anybody cares."

A pureblood elder vampire from The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Cut content mod restores Skyrim's vampires to their former glory

By Jody Macgregor published

News "And so you learn the power of the night."

Hwoarang, wearing a dobok, his fists raised

Tekken 8 is bringing back a character first seen in Tekken 3, and one who debuted in an add-on

By Jody Macgregor published

News Tekken 8 is stacked with familiar faces.

Bobarista Helsie spills milk tea on a Fortnite loading screen

Fortnite is adding ranked play in case you need another way to find out you're not good enough

By Jody Macgregor published

News Say goodbye to Arena and hello to ranked.

Control with auto HDR and native

A Remedy dev modded native HDR into Control, along with a heap of other graphical improvements

By Jody Macgregor published

News The unofficial HDR ultrawide DLSS RT patch makes Control look even nicer.

Ming Xiao and a Malkvavian vampire against a red backdrop

Tim Cain reveals proposed sequels to Vampire – Bloodlines: 'We were planning a trilogy, which I forgot'

By Jody Macgregor published

News Bloodlines' original developers had plans to continue its story.

Kim Kitsuragi

Disco Elysium novel Sacred and Terrible Air has finally been translated

By Jody Macgregor published

News This is clearly a Code 31 emergency.

Homeworld 3

'There is no AI-driven software that I know of that we would put in a shipped game,' says Blackbird Interactive's president

By Jody Macgregor published

News Though as the tools improve, that's likely to change.

Hollow Knight Silksong protagonist Hornet

Hollow Knight: Silksong may be delayed, has 'gotten quite big'

By Jody Macgregor published

News Expected to release mid-year, Silksong is still in development.

A Cathayan woman sits on a throne

Total War: Warhammer 3 roadmap outlines the next year of DLC and updates

By Jody Macgregor published

News Three add-ons are detailed, and each will expand three races.

Garett climbing a building in Thief: The Dark Project.

Help, I can't stop listening to audio loops from the Thief games on repeat

By Jody Macgregor published

News Beats to stalk and steal to.

A bird perches on a sign in Skygerfall

While you wait for Skywind and Skyblivion, you could be playing Skygerfall right now

By Jody Macgregor published

News A completed mod lets you experience Daggerfall's main questline in Skyrim.

crossguard saber stance

Jedi: Survivor preorder and deluxe edition bonuses are going missing

By Jody Macgregor published

News "The teams are aware of the reports and are investigating the issue."

Two men gasp at a magenta grenade

CS:GO broke its peak player count record yet again with 1.8M players

By Jody Macgregor published

News Up from 1.5M in March.

Blade wears a Book Club t-shirt

Creative director of Midnight Suns says it was originally even more talky: 'we cut 30 conversations'

By Jody Macgregor published

News "We cut a ton, because we realized this is just simply too much."

An angel holding a staff descends in a ray of light

Magic: The Gathering Arena is finally coming to Steam this month

By Jody Macgregor published

News Four years after leaving beta, Arena gets a Steam page at last.

3 Hunt Showdown characters

40% of Hunt: Showdown players have never killed another player, says Hunt: Showdown's general manager

By Jody Macgregor published

News "Balance is tricky."

Image for The whole Super Mario Bros. Movie was uploaded to Twitter

The whole Super Mario Bros. Movie was uploaded to Twitter

By Jody Macgregor published

News But does it count as really watching it? David Lynch has yet to reply.

A woman in a winter coat stands in front of a small plane

The challenges of telling compelling stories in survival games

By Jody Macgregor published

Campfire Tales Getting a satisfying narrative out of a survival game can be as hard as punching wood out of trees.

Three mercenaries fight back to back

Mercenary RPG Wartales has sold over 600,000 copies

By Jody Macgregor published

News The developers of Northgard have done well with their latest release.

A pixel skull above a progress bar at 100%

CoD's Season 3 update broke the game for a bunch of players, and they're so upset one sent the devs a pizza

By Jody Macgregor published

News Players with a specific line of AMD GPUs have been experiencing crashes since the update.

Blank-eyed survivors around a campfire

Don't Starve Together goes on sale for the cheapest it's ever been, breaks concurrent player record

By Jody Macgregor published

News Seven years after launch, more people are not starving together than ever.

Using Steam's Notes app to keep track of things in Elden Ring like "stop dying"

New Steam feature lets you pin windows over games, including guides, notes, and web pages

By Jody Macgregor published

News Want to watch videos while you play without having a second screen? Now you can.

Pyromancer Chandra summons a fireball

March of the Machine, Magic's latest set, is great for some formats but not others

By Jody Macgregor published

Format wars The new Magic: The Gathering cards are a perfect illustration of why there are so many different ways to play Magic now.

The Colosseum

Get Humankind's new DLC free for a limited time

By Jody Macgregor published

News That's pretty cheap for a Colosseum.

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