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

"THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO HEED THE CALL OF FFXIV"

The PC PowerPlay team

BLAME JOEL • HELLDIVERS 2 is controlled by one mysterious man

WHITE OUT

BIG N-EWS

RENESCAPE, NOT EIGHT

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

BIG DECK ENERGY • How roguelike deckbuilder BALATRO uses poker, without really being poker

NO JOKE • A few of my favourite Balatro jokers

HARD TO HARD • Four different approaches to difficulty

DIFFICULTY CURVES • Game designer JOHN DENNIS explains how to get difficulty balancing right

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

MANOR LORDS • City building with epic battles in a game laying siege to Steam

DUNGEONBORNE • Explore the dungeons of Steam Next Fest’s biggest hit

PLANE ACCIDENT • Liven up a walk in the woods by investigating a crash

AGE OF MYTHOLOGY: RETOLD • Revamped graphics, changes to unit numbers and more

KINGMAKERS • Just another medieval combat game, with attack helicopters

SPELLROGUE • Remove the randomness of dice with smart thinking and maths

A NEW DAWN • A whole new world of adventure awaits PC gamers in bold new expansion FINAL FANTASY XIV: DAWNTRAIL

FINAL, FINAL, FANTASY, FANTASY • Here are some of my favourite references

NEW HORIZONS • Taking a peek at what’s to come in Dawntrail

A FRESH UPDATE • Some neat quality-of-life changes incoming

BRANCH OUT • ELDEN RING: SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE is FromSoftware’s most ambitious expansion yet

TRAILER ANALYSIS • All the big moments from the Shadow of the Erdtree reveal

GUESS THY ENEMY • Attempting to categorise the new enemies

GUIDED BY GRACE • Why we love FromSoftware’s colossal RPG ELDEN RING

REVIEW

Road warrior

This month's buccaneering reviewers…

FOUR-TO-SIX WHEEL HEAVEN • Other top vehicles in PC gaming

FAST & CURIOUS • Repair, improve and pilot a quirky station wagon in survival game PACIFIC DRIVE

THE BUICK ESTATE STATION WAGON • The car that most influenced Pacific Drive’s four-wheel star

TRILOGY TIMELINE • Three classic adventures in three years

LOST ARC • TOMB RAIDER I-III REMASTERED brings ancient treasures back into the light

ARR-RIGHT • SKULL AND BONES is a fun game that’s hamstrung by today’s live service conventions

SHIVER ME TIMBERS! • Four other pirate games to try on PC

RULE'S GOLD • Five genuine rules as dictated by the pirate code

DEATH FROM ABOVE • A selection of the tools of destruction

BUG HUNT • HELLDIVERS 2 is a masterful, hilarious squad shooter, when it works

WISH YOU WERE HERE? • The galaxy’s finest tourist spots

EDEN PROJECT • Death is just the beginning in BANISHERS: GHOSTS OF NEW EDEN

EDEN FOR TWO • The ingredients in Banishers’ cauldron

GHOSTED • Partners in ghostbusting, but also in love

PIXELS COUNT • Persona 3 Portable vs Reload

MIDNIGHT POWER • PERSONA 3: RELOAD is a big,...