Katie Wickens

Katie Wickens

Freelance writer

Katie is a freelance writer with over 5 years experience 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

Pages from the books of Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
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

Guide
A DnD Artificer fires a magical pistol while lying on a train, with a mechanical construct standing over them
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

Guide
Keys From the Golden Vault cover artwork, showing two Rogues rappelling into a building
DnD Rogue class guide - how to play these artful tricksters

By Katie Wickens Published

Guide Strike hard and fast from the cover of darkness

Guide
Angry Birds Clone by Javi Lopez.
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

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Factions 2 trailer screenshot.
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

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Worldsoul Saga expansion trailer screenshot
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

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Diablo Immortal Adventure Journals Elite quests taite
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

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Diablo 4 Season 2
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"

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Princess Peach Showtime
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?

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Dragon roaring in Dragon's Dogma 2.
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"

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Baldur's Gate 3
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"

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Baldur's Gate 3
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

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Miles Morales speeding through the air.
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?

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Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3
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

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Assassin sits atop a flared roof with a red sunset in the background.
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

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The legend himself, Barcus, arms wide.
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

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Baldur's Gate 3
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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World of Horrors screenshots
Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft collide in the cosmic horror roguelike storming Steam, and the trailer alone is about to give me nightmares

By Katie Wickens Published

news Prepare for the unholy union of two impeccably horrific influences

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Peter Parker stands over his aunt in a hospital bed
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 lead says Miles and Peter succeed because they're relatable: "It's hard to identify with a billionaire"

By Katie Wickens Published

news Making relatable characters is a matter of helping the masses connect with them on a basic human level

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Balthazar gestures at the screen in Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 player discovers way to cheese one of Act 2's most notorious bosses with a bit of RPG housekeeping

By Katie Wickens Published

news There's power in a little tidying up

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Devora Wilde on stream playing out Lae'zel's sex scene.
"Where did that hand just go?": Lae'zel's actor sleeps with Lae'zel while playing as Pink Lae'zel in one of the funniest Baldur's Gate 3 streams ever

By Katie Wickens Published

news The Baldurs Gate 3 stream that takes self masochism to a whole other level

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Fuji and Pirilika chatting
Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless launches with some questionable JRPG character traits

By Katie Wickens Last updated

News Including the main character's propensity for vomiting blood.

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Dungeon Full Dive GM looming above player characters with dice.
Possess your D&D miniature in VR with this upcoming TTRPG game

By Katie Wickens Published

NEWS Dungeon Full Dive brings D&D to life in virtual reality.

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The Jackbox Party Pack 10 game
Another Jackbox party pack is on the way

By Katie Wickens Published

news The new game marks ten years of Jackbox party packs, and brings home the chaos.

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Vulthuryol in flight
Starfield players are pining for the iconic bosses of Skyrim and Fallout

By Katie Wickens Published

News Checkov is rolling in his grave right about now.

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