Katie Wickens
Katie is a freelance writer with almost 5 years experience in covering everything from tabletop RPGs, to video games and tech. Besides earning a Game Art and Design degree up to Masters level, she is a designer of board games, board game workshop facilitator, and an avid TTRPG Games Master - not to mention a former Hardware Writer over at PC Gamer.
Latest articles by Katie Wickens

With flesh-eating elves and blood-sapping undead, Divinity Original Sin 2 is the perfect alt co-op RPG
By Katie Wickens published
Opinion Opinion | Gather your goth pals, it's time to face the Void

10 years on, one of my favorite co-op games Project Zomboid is... not on sale, again
By Katie Wickens published
Opinion Opinion | But it's still good news if you have pals that love pulverizing the undead

Mass Effect veteran says Valheim showed him what an "accessible" survival game could look like in a genre defined by games like Ark and Rust
By Katie Wickens published
News Settle down, not every survival shooter has to have PvP elements shoehorned into it.

The creator of anticipated city-builder got their start by making one of the most iconic Skyrim mods
By Katie Wickens published
news Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles is born of Sala's will to break free from the everyday grind.

Diablo 4 Rogue suffers another wardrobe malfunction, as this time their underwear gets nerfed
By Katie Wickens published
News No more bums for you, love from Blizzard.

Former BioWare lead says his new survival game is only $30 because "there's only so many dollars to go around" in a competitive genre
By Katie Wickens published
News But make your shiny AAA-looking game cheap, and they will come

I've been a DM for 10 years, so here are my 5 tips on starting your campaign right
By Katie Wickens published
Guide Advice from almost a decade of GMing experience

DnD Artificer class guide: How to use and master these versatile magic-infusers
By Katie Wickens published
Guide Tinker to your heart's content, or die trying

DnD Rogue class guide - how to play these artful tricksters
By Katie Wickens published
Guide Strike hard and fast from the cover of darkness

AI game coding tools instantly result in Angry Birds clone, and opens some potentially dangerous floodgates for mobile storefronts
By Katie Wickens published
news Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI… and all that sweet, unchecked IP

Despite reports that The Last of Us multiplayer development has stalled, director says he’s still working on it
By Katie Wickens published
News This will they, won't they is a real rollercoaster for fans

World of Warcraft: Worldsoul Saga expansions are being developed simultaneously
By Katie Wickens published
News That could mean less inconsistencies in the writing, at least

Diablo 4 Aspects will be organised within the Codex of Power… eventually
By Katie Wickens published
News It'll be a massive improvement when it comes to inventory management

Diablo 4 Uniques were "generally not exciting enough", so the devs updated almost every single one
By Katie Wickens published
News "This is how we're going to be looking at making Uniques, uh, unique going forward"

Against all odds, The Super Mario RPG remake retains the original's dirtiest joke
By Katie Wickens published
news But will we ever find out what Princess Peach has hiding in her bedroom?

Dragon's Dogma 2 designers "holed up for three days and two nights" with a pledge to figure the game out
By Katie Wickens published
News "It was by combining these little ideas together that the overall concept and shape began to emerge"

Baldur's Gate 3 players are sharing the game's rarest and best-hidden magical items
By Katie Wickens published
news "Though this rotting chair leg doesn't look like much, every splinter vibrates with barely-contained power"

Nobody likes Baldur's Gate 3's Githyanki, but they should
By Katie Wickens published
news These folks are one of D&D's best kept secrets

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 fan crafts Into the Spider-Verse recreation so good that even the game director is impressed
By Katie Wickens published
news What's up danger?

The actor behind Baldur’s Gate 3’s Astarion finally met the writer behind Astarion, and it was unbelievably wholesome
By Katie Wickens published
news The meta cuddle to beat all meta cuddles

Assassin’s Creed Red logo and female protagonist appears to leak via Ubisoft writer
By Katie Wickens published
news The katana-wielding samurai is looking more and more likely to be one of the game's main protagonists

Baldur's Gate 3 player spends hours trying to save the RPG's least death-fearing NPCs, only for them to turn on the player right at the end
By Katie Wickens published
news "I'm doing this for Barcus," they repeat, while getting their butt handed to them by the prisoners they just saved

The voice of Baldur's Gate 3's most unhinged romance option didn't know they were romanceable: "The most awkward thing was recording the sounds"
By Katie Wickens published
news The Emperor's voice actor talks about his experience playing a sexy tentacle monster
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