Phil Savage
@octaeder.bsky.social
PC Gamer's Global EIC. Mostly just talk about Destiny 2.
Finally got around to watching Oppenheimer, and while it was generally good, the bit where he happens to translate /that/ quote from the Bhagavad Gita mid-sex scene is maybe the most cringe bit of filmmaking I've seen this decade.
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Finally got around to watching Oppenheimer, and while it was generally good, the bit where he happens to translate /that/ quote from the Bhagavad Gita mid-sex scene is maybe the most cringe bit of filmmaking I've seen this decade.
It's my last day of work this year, which means everyone who has added a meeting to my diary for this afternoon is being added to a list.
December 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It's my last day of work this year, which means everyone who has added a meeting to my diary for this afternoon is being added to a list.
Not entirely sure what this console is for any more.
December 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Not entirely sure what this console is for any more.
Didn't quite manage to argue my way into getting Blue Prince the main GOTY award, but this is a good list regardless.
These are our favourite PC games of the year.
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PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025
Our favourite PC games of the year.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Didn't quite manage to argue my way into getting Blue Prince the main GOTY award, but this is a good list regardless.
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Promise Mascot Agency (2025)
December 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Promise Mascot Agency (2025)
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New episode! The podcast eats itself. An episode of The Back Page, all about the back pages of games magazines. Our guest is @octaeder.bsky.social!
Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/59QW...
Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/59QW...
The Back Page Episode + ARC Raiders (with Phil Savage)
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November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New episode! The podcast eats itself. An episode of The Back Page, all about the back pages of games magazines. Our guest is @octaeder.bsky.social!
Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/59QW...
Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/59QW...
100! PC! Games! www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...
The top 100 PC games
Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
100! PC! Games! www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...
Me, only remembering that this accursed website exists because someone linked to a dogshit take.
October 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Me, only remembering that this accursed website exists because someone linked to a dogshit take.
Hello, I am sad about the videogame. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/as...
As Bungie flounders following Destiny 2's disastrous Portal update, is there any saving the game?
I committed myself to the new uber-grindy Destiny 2, and it was so much worse than I thought.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hello, I am sad about the videogame. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/as...
This wasn't a particularly fun review to write, but I'm really not gelling with Destiny 2's new systems. So much of the game right now feels worse than it did two weeks ago.
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Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate review
It's a brand new Destiny 2. Can I have the old one back?
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July 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This wasn't a particularly fun review to write, but I'm really not gelling with Destiny 2's new systems. So much of the game right now feels worse than it did two weeks ago.
www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/de...
www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/de...
WWE ain't got nothing on the style and grace of the Japanese pros.
May 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
WWE ain't got nothing on the style and grace of the Japanese pros.
As part of @pcgamer.com's Witcher 3 10th anniversary celebrations, I was asked to write about the whole Tub Geralt thing, aka, the most notable thing I have done in my career. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ce...
Celebrating 10 years of posting that one image of Geralt in a bathtub
From screenshot to cake, Tub Geralt became a defining icon of The Witcher 3.
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May 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As part of @pcgamer.com's Witcher 3 10th anniversary celebrations, I was asked to write about the whole Tub Geralt thing, aka, the most notable thing I have done in my career. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ce...
This really rings hollow when "lawless space cowboy shit" is already a rich vein of Destiny storytelling, but also one severely lacking in the current version of the game. This just reads as Bungie jettisoning the 'vibe' already built in favour of the version of it that lets them have lightsabers.
🚨NEW: Bungie responds to concerns around Destiny 2 Renegades expansion, saying "everything… is in-canon" and they’re "leaning into the aesthetic, tone, and vibe of Star Wars to tell a Destiny story with Destiny characters" - thegamepost.com/destiny-2-st...
May 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This really rings hollow when "lawless space cowboy shit" is already a rich vein of Destiny storytelling, but also one severely lacking in the current version of the game. This just reads as Bungie jettisoning the 'vibe' already built in favour of the version of it that lets them have lightsabers.
Based on what I've played so far, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 feels like a real modern Oblivion successor. Only instead of helping Sheogorath unleash a storm of burning dogs, you're tracking the village idiot to his sauerkraut den because he's stolen half the cabbages.
February 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Based on what I've played so far, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 feels like a real modern Oblivion successor. Only instead of helping Sheogorath unleash a storm of burning dogs, you're tracking the village idiot to his sauerkraut den because he's stolen half the cabbages.
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stalker 2 is a very good, very buggy videogame. so it's stalker, basically. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/st...
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review
Say it with me now: get out of here, stalker.
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November 20, 2024 at 2:09 PM
stalker 2 is a very good, very buggy videogame. so it's stalker, basically. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/st...
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If you’d like to follow the PC Gamer team on Bluesky, here’s a starter pack with everyone On Here so far.
November 18, 2024 at 8:48 PM
If you’d like to follow the PC Gamer team on Bluesky, here’s a starter pack with everyone On Here so far.
I will say this for The Game Awards: it's an audacious excercise in branding. The discourse every year suggests that people genuinely believe it's /the/ de facto official industry award show, but like, they just called it that. It's a trick. A spell that only works if you believe.
November 18, 2024 at 8:58 PM
I will say this for The Game Awards: it's an audacious excercise in branding. The discourse every year suggests that people genuinely believe it's /the/ de facto official industry award show, but like, they just called it that. It's a trick. A spell that only works if you believe.
At the point of Satisfactory where I know just enough to be dangerous. It's all nightmare spaghetti factories and "fuck it, that'll do".
November 16, 2024 at 12:47 PM
At the point of Satisfactory where I know just enough to be dangerous. It's all nightmare spaghetti factories and "fuck it, that'll do".
*Extremely just played Final Fantasy 16 voice* "Mayhap, you prick"
November 15, 2024 at 4:17 PM
*Extremely just played Final Fantasy 16 voice* "Mayhap, you prick"
Me, shouting to the heavens because I stubbed my toe on the bedside table: "Fuck SBMM"
October 30, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Me, shouting to the heavens because I stubbed my toe on the bedside table: "Fuck SBMM"
At 2,595 words, this is actually one of my shorter Destiny 2 reviews. Even shorter version: it's good. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/de...
Destiny 2: The Final Shape review
Destiny's first saga ends with one of the best expansions in the series' history.
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June 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
At 2,595 words, this is actually one of my shorter Destiny 2 reviews. Even shorter version: it's good. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/de...
Wrote a bit about what PC Gamer's Baldur's Gate 3 review means in the context of a media outlet that hasn't given out a 97 score in 16 years and/or ever. https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-pc-gamers-highest-scoring-game-in-16-years-heres-why/
Baldur's Gate 3 is PC Gamer's highest scoring game in 16 years. Here's why
It's been a long time since we've been this excited by a new PC release.
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August 16, 2023 at 7:16 PM
Wrote a bit about what PC Gamer's Baldur's Gate 3 review means in the context of a media outlet that hasn't given out a 97 score in 16 years and/or ever. https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-is-pc-gamers-highest-scoring-game-in-16-years-heres-why/
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I threatened to do it yesterday, so here it is: andor scenes as dril tweets
August 15, 2023 at 5:43 PM
I threatened to do it yesterday, so here it is: andor scenes as dril tweets
A snake, going about her important snake business.
July 26, 2023 at 9:57 AM
A snake, going about her important snake business.