PC Powerplay

PC PowerPlay is Australia's original and best-selling PC games magazine, with 100% Australian content. Its distinctive, informed and amusing style is widely respected. Offering a mix of games and hardware coverage, the magazine gives a complete picture for the PC entertainment enthusiast. Breaking news of new games, detailing reviews of upcoming games, and helping readers make sense of the array of hardware and tech products that hit the market each month. PC Powerplay doesn’t just promote tech, it benchmarks and analyses it to help gamers make the most intelligent purchasing decision.

PC Powerplay

"JOHN ROMERO IS A REALLY LOVELY GUY FOR SUCH A SATANIC DUDE"

The PC PowerPlay team

QUANTUM PROCESSOR? • The ‘first product of the quantum processing algorithm’ was, in fact, not that

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

A LARA DIVIDED • How TOMB RAIDER’s early marketing campaigns objectified an icon

IDENTITY CRISIS • The many faces of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft

SMOOTH AS SILK • Some famous animation examples

ANIMATED DISCUSSION • Sumo Digital’s THOMAS CROFTS on the craft and importance of animation in games

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE LOST CROWN • Not the Prince of Persia game you wanted, but the one you need

CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY • We played Cyberpunk 2077’s expansion at Summer Game Fest

PAYDAY 3 • Robbing a bank without a plan is as hard as it sounds

TOTAL WAR: PHARAOH • Total War returns to a more grounded take

ALAN WAKE 2 • Gorgeous and eerie, but the core mystery isn’t convincing

MORTAL KOMBAT 1 • With SF6 and MK1, we’ll be talking about 2023 for decades

STAR WARS OUTLAWS • Ubisoft’s Star Wars game looks like the best thing it’s made in ages

AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA • Ubisoft’s Avatar game looks like a Far Cry clone so far

ASSASSIN'S CREED MIRAGE • Ubisoft is making the Assassin’s Creed I’ve been asking for

BALDUR'S FATE • After more than two decades, the wait is fi nally over. BALDUR’S GATE III is here and, as Robert Jones discovers, it’s changing the scope of what an CRPG can offer forever

CASTING CALL • Meet just a few of Baldur’s Gate III’s potential new companions

THE BALDUR'S GATE CRPG TIMELINE • Follow the series’ numerous releases on PC

WELCOME TO THE CITY OF BALDUR'S GATE • The metropolis has been lovingly recreated by Larian Studios

A TRIPLE THREAT • Meet Baldur’s Gate III’s primary antagonists

DOOM GUY • PC PowerPlay talks to industry legend JOHN ROMERO about his life in videogames

LEAVIND ID • Extract from Doom Guy, recalling the split between John Romero and John Carmack

PC PowerPlay REVIEW

This month's Lilith-worshipping reviewers…

THE BUTCHER RETURNS • Diablo IV’s iconic boss is equipped to kill you

LIVING HELL • Fiery builds and lots of skeletons in the fantastical darkness of DIABLO IV

PICK YOUR PLAYSTYLE • Rogue vs Necromancer

ELIGIBLE BACHELOR(ETTE)S • A who’s who of London’s likeliest suitors

FIRST DATE JITTERS • Date squids and solve murders in MASK OF THE ROSE

SEMI-PRECIOUS • LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM charms despite a fractured identity

IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS • My favourite interactables

IRON CURTAIN • Retro-style shooter HROT is surprisingly whimsical for its grim looks

ROLLERPOSER TYCOON • Parking up the wrong tree in PARK BEYOND

A WOLF IN JEEP'S CLOTHING • LEGO 2K DRIVE is a tyre’d and tested formula, ruined by corporate greed

LE-GO OF YOUR CREDIT CARD DETAILS • Parents are...