Phil Savage

Bath

UK Editor-in-Chief at PC Gamer

Global Editor-in-Chief, PC Gamer.

Featured in: Favicon

pcgamer.com Favicon

yahoo.com (+3) Favicon

techradar.com Favicon

flipboard.com Favicon

space.com

gamesradar.com Favicon

sbsun.com

msn.com

pcpowerplay.com.au Favicon

apcmag.com

Articles

'You've seen the number of releases from AAA publishers dwindle and dwindle and dwindle': Clair Obscur's runaway success was helped by staying smaller scale in a world of inflated budgets

4 weeks ago | pcgamer.com | Phil Savage

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a tight, 30-hour RPG from a relatively small team that, since release, has sold over 3.3 million copies. In short, it's been a resounding success—singular and distinct, it looks and feels like nothing else around. It's a game that's particularly interesting when compared to probably the most well-known turn-based RPG series in the world.
'You've seen the number of releases from AAA publishers dwindle and dwindle and dwindle': Clair Obscur's runaway success was helped by staying smaller scale in a world of inflated budgets | Flipboard

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Phil Savage

10 Classic Games That Will Never Need A RemakeIn the last couple of years, we've seen more remakes and remasters, allowing us to experience older games through the lens of modern hardware. The …
Celebrating 10 years of posting that one image of Geralt in a bathtub

1 month ago | pcgamer.com | Phil Savage

It's 2017, and I'm in Warsaw, visiting CD Projekt Red to play its new game, a standalone, multiplayer version of Gwent. Before I'm allowed to do that, though, I'm asked a question by the studio's PR manager… one that's clearly been puzzling him for well over a year: "Why do you keep posting images of Geralt in the bath?"At the time I didn't have a good answer.
Bungie announces the next four Destiny 2 expansions, and yes, the second one is literally just Star Wars

1 month ago | pcgamer.com | Phil Savage

In today's Destiny 2 reveal event, Bungie kicked off the next major 'saga' of the game. It's called the Fate Saga, it'll unfold over multiple years, and it will start on July 15 with the first expansion, The Edge of Fate. But that was just one of four expansions that Bungie announced today, and it's the second one—due out later this year, on December 2—that will raise the most eyebrows. It's called Renegades, and it's… well, it's Star Wars.
'We are so back': After a month of spent strangling itself with monetisation, promising new auto-battler The Bazaar finally makes things right for its players

2 months ago | pcgamer.com | Phil Savage

A month ago, The Bazaar launched in open beta. It was a disaster, alienating a faithful community that had been building up steam throughout the game's closed beta period. It wasn't just that players saw the new autobattler's free-to-play monetisation as extreme, drawing pay-to-win accusations, but that the game's creator—former professional Hearthstone player and streamer Reynad—went scorched Earth at the community subreddit.
'We are so back': After a month of spent strangling itself with monetisation, promising new auto-battler The Bazaar finally makes things right for its players | Flipboard

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Phil Savage

1 day agoThe worlds richest, most divorced man streamed the game from a plane only to be relentlessly bullied by viewers. Elon Musk, seemingly keen to repair some of his gamer cred after he admitted to account boosting, streamed himself playing Path of Exile 2 during a flight as a part of an “airborne …
The biggest update since Path of Exile 2's early access launch is coming next week, bringing a new class and a bunch of endgame changes

Mar 27, 2025 | pcgamer.com | Phil Savage

Grinding Gear Games has announced the Dawn of the Hunt update for Path of Exile 2. It launches on April 4, and it's a big one: the first major content drop to hit the early access ARPG. The headline feature here is a new class—the Huntress—but GGG has also got plenty of new toys for every character to enjoy. New ascendancy options, new skills, new support gems and new uniques—in all, it should result in a pretty major shakeup to buildcrafting.
'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback

Mar 21, 2025 | msn.com | Phil Savage

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback

Mar 21, 2025 | pcgamer.com | Phil Savage

Destiny 2 has had a turbulent history—it's a game that, since its release in 2017, has seen many ups, downs, and outright blunders. So a GDC talk from one of Bungie's developers titled "Rescuing a Playerbase from the Doldrums" could apply to any number of periods throughout the game's life. At this talk specifically, though, Destiny 2 principle designer Alan Blaine addresses the state of the game back in late 2022.
'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback | Flipboard

Mar 21, 2025 | flipboard.com | Phil Savage

What Alternative App Stores Are There for the iPhone? At the end of January, Apple promised to open up its closed iOS operating system to third-party software providers in the EU and thus allow …

Contact details

Emails

[email protected]

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers: 5K
Tweets: 12K
DMs Open: Yes

Phil Savage @Octaeder

17 Oct 24

One of the benefits of being global EIC is that there's really nobody who can stop me from turning a rant that probably belongs on the Destiny 2 subreddit into an article on a major website.

PC Gamer @pcgamer

Bungie is claiming that a bug with one of Destiny 2's exotic weapons is actually a feature, and I'm going to go into excruciating detail about why I think that's wrong. https://t.co/2I3nVMZZD6

Phil Savage @Octaeder

20 Aug 24

I am tired and in Germany. Let's Gamescom, I guess.

Phil Savage @Octaeder

13 Aug 24

Guild Wars 2 still has the best mounts. Here's me mucking about in a preview session with the new version of the Warclaw. https://t.co/CSpknGCsDL https://t.co/1qeuFE978X

Phil Savage

Articles

'You've seen the number of releases from AAA publishers dwindle and dwindle and dwindle': Clair Obscur's runaway success was helped by staying smaller scale in a world of inflated budgets

'You've seen the number of releases from AAA publishers dwindle and dwindle and dwindle': Clair Obscur's runaway success was helped by staying smaller scale in a world of inflated budgets | Flipboard

Celebrating 10 years of posting that one image of Geralt in a bathtub

Bungie announces the next four Destiny 2 expansions, and yes, the second one is literally just Star Wars

'We are so back': After a month of spent strangling itself with monetisation, promising new auto-battler The Bazaar finally makes things right for its players

'We are so back': After a month of spent strangling itself with monetisation, promising new auto-battler The Bazaar finally makes things right for its players | Flipboard

The biggest update since Path of Exile 2's early access launch is coming next week, bringing a new class and a bunch of endgame changes

'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback

'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback

'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback | Flipboard

Contact details

Emails

Socials & Sites

X (formerly Twitter)