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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POWER PLAY • Maximum power gaming

Gaming news

IN THE STARS • Bethesda’s “Skyrim in space” STARFIELD has been delayed to 2023

Highs & Lows

INSIDE BASEBALL • How 38 STUDIOS’ failed MMO gave us Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

RECK YOURSELF • The worst remake titles of all time

KINGDOM COME • How the Copernicus team came together

BALANCING ACT • Blizzard hopes for big change by switching OVERWATCH from 6v6 to 5v5

NEW ERA • What exactly will be in Overwatch 2?

A COLLECTION ASIDE • It’s definitely possible that MEGHANN O’NEILL is getting soft in her middle age, but she found a lot of the following games to be unreasonably difficult, mostly in challenging, frustrating, surprise dying, “learn to play” kinds of ways. Luckily, those are all the things she finds fun, in medium sized doses. It’s also lucky that there was at least one purely fun game in the collection, because there probably actually are only so many words you can type into a recalcitrant parser. Please consider your own preferences for fun as you decide which of these games are for you.

THE LEGACY OF GENRE. • For a game that has not aged particularly well, it took me a long time to notice.

DESERT POWER • For the first time in 20 years, war returns to Arrakis in real-time 4X DUNE: SPICE WARS

FOUR HOUSES • Who you’ll be playing as, and scheming against, in Dune: Spice Wars

WASTELAND HAZARDS • The other factions aren’t the only threat on Arrakis

SANDS OF TIME • A masterful sci-fi adaptation that shaped the future of the RTS? That would be DUNE II.

DUNE BUDDIES • Dune II’s sequels and remakes

SAINTS ROW • A more grounded take, but don’t worry: it’s still extremely silly

DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY • It Disney get any better than this

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM • A stealth adventure with an identity crisis

F1 MANAGER 22 • An irresistible chance to undo Binotto’s mistakes

GERDA: A FLAME IN WINTER • An important story muddled by numbers

STORMGATE • StarCraft II’s devs reunite to make the RTS of their dreams

V RISING • Build, battle, and bite in this vampiric survival game

TURBO OVERKILL • A chainsaw for a leg, you say? Okay, I’m in.

MAXING THE MINIMUM • Inside the often-thankless, quietly imaginative task of developing for LOW-SPEC GAMING

DEAD RECKONINGS • René Tschacher explains how the dev tailors simulations like Dead Man’s Diary for lower-spec PCs

SKY HIGH • Alexander Murphy on bringing MoH: Above and Beyond to the Oculus Quest platform

AAA TO B • Three developers offer thoughts on trends in blockbuster game visuals

REVIEW

Small claims

This month’s corrupted, mutated reviewers…

EVIL EVOLUTION • Warp Surges trigger progressive mutations in the enemy

CONTROLLED CHAOS • Dealing with cosmic plagues in WARHAMMER 40,000: CHAOS GATE – DAEMONHUNTERS

ALL ABOARD! • Things to do on your ship

SMASHING STUFF • Tearing down TEARDOWN’s voxelated worlds never gets old

TOOLS OF THE TRADE • No...