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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BLUE SKIES • Red death

The PC PowerPlay team

PAST OASIS • After admitting their MMO ‘sucks,’ DONKEY CREW reworks the entire game

GAME ENGINES VANISH

DOOM TRACTOR

NIGHTMARE FUEL

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

UNCATCHABLE • Why has no indie riff on POKÉMON taken off on PC?

LEARN ’EM ALL • More games to enjoy

SPRUNG ON YOU • Examples of Sprung Studios’ handiwork

ASK AN UXPERT • Sprung Studios CEO JAMES CHAYTOR on UI, UX, and why they’re so important

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

MINI BREAKS • MOON BREAKER feels pure tabletop, but on your PC

ART SCHOOL • Moonbreaker makes painting easy

CULTURE CLUB • Get to know the first trio of cultures

THE REAL DEAL • How to get into model painting IRL

GODS OF THUNDER • Nick ‘MagzTV’ Read reveals how the Danger Zone and Drone Age updates electrify War Thunder’s hyper-intense combat.

PC gaming in Brazil • PC GAMING IN BRAZIL: EXORBITANT HARDWARE, IRREPRESSIBLE COMPETITIVE SPIRIT, AND THE MOST INFAMOUS LAUGH ON THE INTERNET

THE COUNTER-STRIKE LEGACY • Three moments from Brazil’s love affair with Counter-Strike

BRAZIL’S INDIE FACES • The indie devs we spoke to at the games fest

DEAD ISLAND 2 • Back from the grave… again. With a vengeance

HOMEWORLD 3 • Even in space, you need to use terrain to your advantage

THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL • A gloriously gory spiritual successor to Dead Space

JAGGED ALLIANCE 3 • Escaping the spectre of XCOM by never telling you the odds

MINECRAFT LEGENDS • A strategy spin-off that gives Minecraft a whole new scale

YOU SUCK AT PARKING • A driving game where your objective is to stop

Victoria 3 • Creating utopias and dystopias by gaslight

WYRDSONG • A mysterious new RPG with serious pedigree

The Expanse

Where Winds Meet

Rift of the Necrodancer

Phantom Hellcat

The Great War: Western Front

Lies of P

WARHAMMER 40,000: ROGUE TRADER • This is a real turn for the Matt Allwright series

CAMP CANYONWOOD • Make sure your kids have fun in this management game

REVIEW

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This month’s criminal gang of reviewers…

YOUR RIVALS • These jerks are even worse than you

SAINT NO JOKE • The rebooted SAINTS ROW could really do with a dubstep gun

EASY SLIDER • The four stages of character creation

SMACKPACK

CLOSE COMBAT • MULTIVERSUS is an unexpectedly great matchup – even if it does whiff a few attacks

FIGHTING WORDS • A look at Velma’s game plan

HURRY, CHOP CHOP • It feels good being baaad in CULT OF THE LAMB

PREPARING THE LAMB • Going from kebabee to kebaber

HOW SOULS LIKE WE TALKIN’? • Which From games have been pillaged?

SOULS-YIKES • I am requesting we stop making Dark Souls rip offs like THYMESIA

LOWER THAN BLIGHTTOWN • The lows and lower lows of Thymesia

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER • In IMMORTALITY, art is...