Carrie Talbot

Carrie Talbot

Carrie is a former News Editor at PCGamesN, now a freelancer and writer based in the sunny UK. With a master’s in English Lit from Oxford, she has a special interest in dissecting narrative and characterisation, and exploring games’ unique powers for storytelling. She’s an RPG nut who’s never happier than when saving fantasy worlds, scorching foes with spells, and trekking virtual miles on her companions’ every whim. She’ll tell you just how many hundreds of hours she’s plugged into Baldur’s Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2, The Witcher 3, and Skyrim if you ask really nicely. Also a Fable obsessive, so only mention it if you *really* want to lose a few hours of your own.

Latest articles by Carrie Talbot

Baldur's Gate 3
I let real-life dice rolls decide my Baldur's Gate 3 fate, and now I'm going (back) to hell

By Carrie Talbot Published

Features Letting the IRL RNG gods decide my fate was always going to be risky

Features
Tunic
Players of last year's best Zelda-like are still trying to crack its secrets, but its creator didn't expect them to dig this deep

By Carrie Talbot Published

News "Yeah, it was a little faster than we thought"

News
Spyro the Dragon
Spyro the Dragon creator says Mario and Sonic are now "embedded in our subconscious"

By Carrie Talbot Published

News “Along with Mario, I also think Sonic and Spyro are part of that ‘subconscious designer’ in our heads”

News
The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall
The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall nearly destroyed Bethesda: "If you weren't putting in 60 hours minimum, your job was in danger"

By Carrie Talbot Published

News “It was potentially the end of Bethesda”

News
Skyrim
Skyrim's lead designer says he played the RPG for 1,000 hours - "and for 950 of those hours, it was broken"

By Carrie Talbot Published

News “In every studio, those 950 hours, you're playing a broken game”

News
Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 knocked my RPG halo off, and it's all Astarion's fault

By Carrie Talbot Published

Opinion Opinion | Baldur's Gate 3 has made me challenge the meaning of good versus bad in video games

Opinion
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    Late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata never wanted tons of Mario and Zelda sequels because that's "not the kind of company I want Nintendo to be"
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    My least favorite Blood of Dawnwalker mission has the best writing in the whole RPG, and I never want to play it again
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    Here's how to watch this year's PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct
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    With "11 kills, 12 kills at a time," battle royale hybrid Project Zeta is not your daddy's MOBA (or your brother's hero shooter)
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    Wardogs studio checks the Steam accounts of their hires to make sure they're "passionate about FPS games" as "you wouldn't let me go and make Final Fantasy"

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