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

“DOOM'S MOST HELLISHLY WICKED, ADRENALINEPUMPING EPISODE YET”

The PC PowerPlay team

“PRAISE THE PILE!” • FOXHOLE players battle the odds and build a religion around a corpse pile

Highs & Lows

MONSTER CLICKS

MOD WARNING

“SIMPLY NOT TRUE”

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

WORLD BUILDING • The MORROWIND mod that's older than the game itself

EXPANSION PACKED • An evolution in expansions

3D OR NOT 3D • Some unforgettable character models

BUILDING CHARACTERS • KARINA BASTOS on being a freelance 3D character artist in the game industry

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

NIGHTINGALE • What's on the cards for the next big survival game?

BEAST • This mad grimdark tactical RPG let me become a satanic Wolverine

MOONLIGHT PEAKS • A vampire farm sim that let's you decorate your property

THE INQUISITOR • Vampires, jesters and pigs in a thoroughly muddy fantasy world

ICON OF SIN • John Romero is dragging us back to hell in SIGIL II, original Doom's brand-new, devilishly devious, unofficial sixth episode

Doom Guy on Doom • On Doom's 30th, John Romero reflects on the iconic FPS

THE HISTORY OF DOOM • Charting 30 YEARS of the genre-defining (and redefining) FPS series

FROM DOOM GUY TO DOOM SLAYER • How Doom's protagonist evolved into the ultimate killing machine

DOOM TIMELINE • Charting FPS history

THE ALTERNATE DOOM • Doom has seen various alternate versions and spinoffs

DAD MOD • Here's a selection of the best Doom mods

GAME OF THE YEAR 2023 • Celebrating the absolute best of the last 12 months of PC gaming

JACOB RIDLEY

MOLLIE TAYLOR

CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY

WARHAMMER 40,000: DARKTIDE

DREDGE

ALAN WAKE 2

STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR

TYLER COLP

EVAN LAHTI

JOSHUA WOLENS

ROBIN VALENTINE

DAVE THE DIVER

REMNANT 2

TCHIA

ARMORED CORE VI

SHADOW GAMBIT: THE CURSED CREW

SEAN MARTIN

ANDY CHALK

STREET FIGHTER 6

SYSTEM SHOCK

BALDUR'S GATE III

THINNER CITY • CITIES: SKYLINES II is a lot bigger than the original, but not quite better

UNNATURAL DISASTERS • Tornadoes aren't as dangerous as an incompetent mayor. Here are my man-made catastrophes

GRID UNLOCKED • There are lots of ways for your citizens to get around without using cars, which eases traffic problems. Here are a few…

THE GANK SQUADS OF MOURNSTEAD • Or: my new sleep paralysis demons

A TALE OF TWO GAMES • LORDS OF THE FALLEN is a great Souls-like, haunted by some bizarre choices

A SCIENTIFIC DIFFICULTY GRAPH • (It's a little inconsistent)

KILLER COP • ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY'S engaging, hyper-violent combat only takes it so far

OCP CRIME PREVENTION UNIT 001 • Dead or alive, you're coming with me!

NIGHT TERRORS • ALAN WAKE 2 is a wild barrage of creative storytelling and visual flair

CANON BARRAGE • To fully understand the story, make...