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

“LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IS ONE OF PC GAMING'S MOST PLAYED GAMES”

The PC PowerPlay team

BAD ROLL • RPG devs blame the temporary death of CRPGs on ‘vibes-based forecasting’ from retailers

AFEELA NERVOUS!

POTTER CASH

FULL OF HOLES

Highs & Lows

THE UGLY EPIDEMIC • Stuffed full of brands and tie-in skins, shooters are getting harder to look at

FAST FASHION • The worst kinds of cosmetics we all have to deal with nowadays

TRY ME, I DARE YOU • Demos past and present well worth your time

DEMONSTRATION MAN • TOBIAS GRAFF, CEO and co-founder of Mooneye Studios, on making a game demo

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

UNITED 1944 • WWII squad shooter risks being another unknown soldier

SOLIUM INFERNUM • Satanic strategy with demonic divisions on hellish hexes

PACIFIC DRIVE • Take a road trip through mankind's folly

RAILROADS & CATACOMBS • The roads are rails, but you cannot comb the cat

ESCAPE FROM TARKOV: ARENA • A back-to-basics shooter that punishes mistakes

CREATING A RIFT • Updating LEAGUE OF LEGENDS is a mammoth task, but this year Riot Games has taken more risks than usual

MEET THE NEW BARONS • With three new Barons to take down you need to know who you are up against

DISCOVER THE NEW BOT LANE • An old favourite gets some big changes this season

WHAT COULD 2025 BRING? • Despite the new season just launching, the team already has ideas for 2025

THE HISTORY OF GRAND THEFT AUTO • With GRAND THEFT AUTO VI finally, officially revealed. PCPP charts the rise, rise, and rise of one of gaming's biggest series

RECKONING BALL • A thousand years of wrongs put right in TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

TOME TO KILL • The Black Library bangers that inspired this quest

REVENGE INCARNATE • How Belegar spent his time restoring the Karaz Ankor

REVIEW

Crysis point

This month's mad reviewers…

YOU'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE • Pandora's most dangerous occupants

THE FRONTIER IS CLOSED • A Pandora's box of technical issues in AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA

HUNTING AND GATHERING • Breakdown of time spent in Frontiers of Pandora

STAID MARIAN • GANGS OF SHERWOOD's four-player fighting is all too frivolous and all too fleeting

THE GANG'S ALL HERE • These guys are in the game

A TYPICAL CHAOS CULTIST LAIR • Dedicated to Slaanesh, god of excess

MARKET DOWN • WARHAMMER 40,000: ROGUE TRADER gets the tone right, but combat's a drag

MOTLEY CREW • Some of the early companions you'll meet

OUT OF THIS WORLD • COCOON is a beautiful, tactile, ingenious puzzle adventure

WONDER BALL • Each colour contains its own world

SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED • Restoring and building houses isn't enough

FLIP SERVICE • Live the property fantasy, debt-free, in HOUSE FLIPPER 2

ISLAND STYLE • How long it takes for your island to look good

DISNEY CROSSING • DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY scratches that Animal Crossing itch,...