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.

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BUT NOT FORGOTTEN • Devs create an SGF tombstone for fallen game studios

LIFE AND DEATH

HUGE LOSS ON SUICIDE SQUAD

TEAM GREEN

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

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

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

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

THAT'S SO RANDOM • Four more procedurally generated gems

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

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

DUSTBORN • Let me smash fascists and flirt with my situationship

GUILD WARS 2: JANTHIR WILDS • Make a house a Homestead with the new player housing feature

DOWN TO EARTH • WORLD OF WARCRAFT: THE WAR WITHIN forges a new path fuelled 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

REVIEW

Running rings

This month's Tarnished reviewers…

LORE DROP • The major players in SotE

ABSOLUTELY DIVINE • SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE masterfully concludes FromSoftware's glorious action RPG

WEAPON SPECIALIST • SotE's new weapon types

SPANDEXCOM • CAPES turns superhero combat into a brain-twisting tactical puzzle

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER • The many layers of Capes’ combat system

ICONS OF THEIR SPORT • F1 24 allows you to play career mode as several famous drivers

STARTING TO FLAG • Another odd in-betweener year for F1 24

A STANDARD RACE WEEKEND • The ups and downs of being a racing driver

TROUBLED WATERS • STILL WAKES THE DEEP is more than the sum of its horror parts

ENTER THE CHINESE ROOM • What games is this developer known for?

PERFECTLY SHAPED • After a difficult year, Bungie pulls off a miracle with DESTINY 2: THE FINAL SHAPE

TURN UP THE LIGHTS • How do the new super abilities shape up?

PALE OUT • There's a lot to do in the Pale Heart

BRAIN TRAINING • How does the new raid stack up?

HEAVENLY • A garden of diabolical delights make SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V: VENGEANCE feel fresh

NAHOBINO NOTES • Meet the game's protagonist

8-BIT GAMING • Rack up a high score in handheld puzzle games

ZAP • Grab a notebook – every answer is a mystery in LORELEI AND THE LASER EYES

OUIJA DOES IT •...