Robin Valentine

Robin Valentine

Senior Editor

Formerly the editor of PC Gamer magazine (and the dearly departed GamesMaster), Robin combines years of experience in games journalism with a lifelong love of PC gaming. First hypnotised by the light of the monitor as he muddled through Simon the Sorcerer on his uncle’s machine, he’s been a devotee ever since, devouring any RPG or strategy game to stumble into his path. Now he's channelling that devotion into filling this lovely website with features, news, reviews, and all of his hottest takes.

Articles by: Robin Valentine

A player climbing onto a chimera to attack it in Dragon's Dogma 2.

Squealing pigs, disgruntled bison, and the most beautiful frying meat I've ever seen: Dragon's Dogma 2 is just as wonderfully weird as the first game

By Robin Valentine published

A WORLD OF ITS OWN If strapping an explosive mine to a troll's head is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

Scorpion and Subzero fighting in Mortal Kombat 1.

Mortal Kombat 1 review

By Robin Valentine published

BARE BONES A solid but oddly soulless entry that fails to commit to being a series reboot.

CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing "Cyber Rodeo" grand opening party in Austin, Texas, on April 7, 2022. - Tesla welcomed throngs of electric car lovers to Texas on April 7 for a huge party inaugurating a "gigafactory" the size of 100 professional soccer fields.

Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200-year-old gun: 'I was armed but not dangerous'

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS

Kenshi fighting Kitana in Mortal Kombat 1.

Ed Boon wanted every fighter in Mortal Kombat 1 to be played by a famous actor, with Keanu Reeves as Kenshi

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Wasn't Megan Fox enough?

An investigator and a policeman looking at a crime scene in Trail of Cthulhu.

One of the best Lovecraftian tabletop RPGs ever is ridiculously cheap right now

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Grab 20 Trail of Cthulhu books at a nearly 95% discount.

Zevlor, leader of the tiefling refugees, looking surprised, in Baldur's Gate 3.

Just in case you murder everyone, Baldur's Gate 3 has back-up NPCs—and even back-ups for its back-ups

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS The tiefling refugees will always find a new leader, no matter how stab-happy you are.

The protagonist of Tenebris Somnia, a young, blonde-haired woman

My new greatest fear is meeting the two-faced monster from this survival horror game that combines retro pixel art with FMV

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Tenebris Somnia is uniquely creepy, and you can play the demo now.

Starfield First Contact

The best Starfield quests, from corporate espionage to Alien-inspired horror

By Fraser Brown published

Stellar Hop in your ship and hunt down these unmissable adventures.

The Prince standing with his hands on a table staring at you.

2008's Prince of Persia was one of Ubisoft's strangest experiments—but it's hardly aged a day in 15 years

By Robin Valentine published

PARTNERS IN TIME From its unique combat system to its shocking twist ending, Ubisoft's failed reboot is full of character.

A blue slipper

I've finally figured out the answer to Starfield's greatest mystery: why my spaceship's cargo hold is always full of misc items

By Robin Valentine published

CYBERJUNK No more will I be plagued by mystery slippers and mugs.

Nitara the vampire holding a globule of blood in Mortal Kombat 1.

If you've ever wanted Megan Fox to literally kick your skeleton out of your body, then boy does Mortal Kombat 1 have a fighter for you

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Nitara the vampire returns to the series.

The player character floating in space in Starfield.

Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me

By Robin Valentine published

WASTING SPACE Bethesda's latest can't help but feel shallow by comparison.

Art from the D&D book Candlekeep Mysteries.

Dungeons & Dragons' latest sale offers cheap ways to get into the game—here's what I recommend picking up

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Start your own monster-slaying adventures today.

Gale wearing a wizard's hat and nothing else in Baldur's Gate 3.

Turns out Baldur's Gate 3's companions weren't supposed to be such horndogs: "It was a bug"

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Finally, I can Long Rest in peace.

A purple Starfield spaceship flies through a debris field while evading enemy fire.

How to win space battles in Starfield

By Robin Valentine published

FIGHT SCHOOL Become a space ace and strike fear into the Crimson Fleet.

A player character wearing a hat and poncho in New Atlantis in Starfield.

How to hide your spacesuit in Starfield

By Robin Valentine published

SUITS YOU It just seems polite to change into your civilian clothes in cities.

Starfield — a player character standing in front of an NPC guard, who's been left in their underwear by an unfortunate bug

How buggy is Starfield? Somewhat, but definitely less than other Bethesda games

By Mollie Taylor published

Bug Report Here's how Starfield's been running for seven PC Gamer editors.

An evil hag in Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur's Gate 3 breaks all of D&D 5e's taboos—like an eccentric DM who house-rules everything

By Robin Valentine published

GATE KEEPING Larian have made perhaps the most faithful D&D game yet, but it's nothing like an official Wizards of the Coast campaign.

The city of Baldur's Gate.

The Baldur's Gate Gazetteer lets you continue your Baldur's Gate 3 adventures in tabletop D&D—and you can grab it for free right now

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Claim it on D&D Beyond and create your own stories of crime and conspiracy.

The Stormcast Eternal heroes of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin investigating a haunted temple.

An hour under relentless siege by orcs and angry ghosts in the world of Warhammer has me convinced that Realms of Ruin is the next great RTS campaign

By Robin Valentine published

HAMMERING IT HOME Understanding the spirit of Frontier's new RTS, thanks to an army of spirits.

A rogue and a wizard fighting hordes of undead in Gallowspire Survivors.

Gallowspire Survivors, a mash-up of Pathfinder and Vampire Survivors, comes to Steam Early Access on September 14

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Slay hordes of undead and loot a billion treasure chests.

Hercules Mulligan posing for the camera in Hamilton Simulator.

Hamilton Simulator in Roblox lets you sing enemies to death with characters from the musical

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS The world will never be the same.

Lae'zel talking to the player while holding her sword up in Baldur's Gate 3.

15 important D&D terms to help you understand Baldur's Gate 3

By Robin Valentine published

DUNGEONS & JARGON From AC to saving throws, learn the jargon that could keep your character alive.

Juliet Starling looking out at a crowd of zombies in Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP.

The Lollipop Chainsaw remake finally has a name, just in time to get delayed a year

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is now due summer 2024.

A vampire elf looking dapper

Larian's had to patch Baldur's Gate 3's save files to be infinite size, 'to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys'

By Robin Valentine published

NEWS The new hotfix prevents all your choices from clogging up your "personal story database".

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