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“A WHOLE NEW EPIC WOW ADVENTURE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN”

The PC Gamer team

PC Gamer • #387 OCTOBER 2024

BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Highs & Lows

GOING BANANAS • Over 30,000 players occasionally click a JPEG—why? Good question

BANANARTISTS • Community submissions from fruit-lovers on the official Banana Discord

THAT’S SO RANDOM • Four more procedurally generated gems

GENERATION GAME • Vincent Abric, engine and tools programmer at MOTION TWIN, on procedural generation

STAR WARS OUTLAWS • Ubisoft’s latest is slick but disappointingly familiar

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD • Dragon Age becomes what it was probably always destined to be

ASSASSIN’S CREED SHADOWS • The best-looking AC combat in ages, as well as strong stealth

PAX DEI • A promising medieval ‘social sandbox’ from EVE alumni

GREEDFALL 2 • Gunpowder fantasy goes forwards and back and upside down

GRAY ZONE WARFARE • A new open-world take on the mil-sim extraction shooter genre

DOWN TO EARTH • WORLD OF WARCRAFT: THE WAR WITHIN forges a new path fueled by a 20-year history

WHAT’S NEW • Major features in The War Within

THE CREW • Who will be joining you?

THE FUTURE OF WOW • Looking ahead at the Worldsoul saga

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