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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GOING BEYOND

BLOWING UP • CALL OF DUTY is still huge - and that could stop Microsoft buying Activision

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

GERALT RELOADED • The big new update for THE WITCHER 3 adds to an RPG that’s aged beautifully

SUNDAY BEST • Gearalt of Rivia (get it?) gets some new goodies

PLAYING DEV • Hyper Luminal develops its own games, too

QA Q&A • SCOTTY LODGE of Hyper Luminal Games shines a light on the QA process

SOUND GARDEN • The great ghost of LOOKING GLASS hovers over Deus Ex, BioShock and Guitar Hero

TAFFER CHATTER • The best of Thief’s dunderheaded guards

MIRROR DIMENSION • The invention of the immersive sim

PARK BEYOND • How Limbic Entertainment is taking the theme park sims off the rails in the best way possible.

WHEN NPCS GET NEEDY • Become lost in the churn, be surrounded by chunder.

MULTIPLE PATHWAYS • Divergent objectives and creative opportunities both.

THE BIG PREVIEW • The best and brightest of a huge year for PC gaming

Starfield

The Great War: Western Front

Stormgate

Company of Heroes 3

Final Fantasy XVI

Street Fighter 6

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Resident Evil 4

Assassin’s Creed Mirage

Skull and Bones

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

Atlas Fallen

Diablo 4

Wild Hearts

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Teslagrad 2

The Invincible

Terra Nil

Nightingale

STALKER 2

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Hyper Light Breaker

Redfall

HORDE MODE • Fight hundreds of alien monsters at once in the bigger, meaner SPACE MARINE 2

BLASTS IN THE PAST • Catch up on the first game’s plot

MARINE BIOLOGY • How does Titus compare to other 40K protagonists?

REVIEW

This month’s grimdark reviewers…

CLASS ACT • The currently available specialisms

SHOTS IN THE DARK • Bash heretics to save a wonderfully horrible world in WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE

WEAPONS OF WAR • My favourite equipment so far

RADIOTHERAPY • SIGNALIS is one of the best psychological sci-fi chillers in years

DEATH-AVOIDANCE AND YOU • Mostly-universal tips for classic survival horror

GET DECKED • The most satisfying cards to play

IRON MAN MODE • MARVEL'S MIDNIGHT SUNS successfully morphs XCOM into social simulation, somehow

DEEP CUTS • Meet the lesser-known Suns in orbit

NEED TO KNOW

ALL GORE • Walk down gaming's moodiest corridors in THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL

FAVOURITE THINGS • Finding the right tool for the job

DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES • EVIL WEST pits cowboys against vampires in a beefy brawler

SINK OR SWIM • Beginning at the end in soggy citybuilder FLOODLAND

EXPAND ALONE • How and why to expand to the other islands

DEAD ON ARRIVAL • Souls-like Metroidvania meets monotony in GHOST SONG

GARBAGE DAY • Bin there, dumped that in SUNSET...