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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“NOW SEEMS THE BEST TIME EVER TO JUMP INTO WARFRAME”

The PC PowerPlay team

CASHING IN • A RUNESCAPE player’s approach to grinding saw the game struggling to cope

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

LOST IN STEAM • RETRO GAMES are added to Steam every month - so why is no one buying them?

ARCHIVAL PIXELS • Retro publisher Pixel Games UK has amassed quite a collection of classics on Steam

GAMING THE SYSTEM • Try running a whole developer

CODE OPEN • Freelance programmer LUKAS DONKERS on the art of coding gameplay into our games

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

TCHIA • Explore a beautiful tropical island filled with magic

HAVENDOCK • Build a thriving town on the ocean in this cosy colony sim

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE AWAKENED • The world's most iconic detective cross-examines an evil doll

SHADOW GAMBIT • The Desperados 3 team wants you to lead an undead pirate crew

INKULINATI • Rabbits, dogs and donkeys take to the turn-based battlefield

KING OF THE CASTLE • Heavy is the head that wears the crown

CROWN DUEL • How THE DUVIRI PARADOX will unite old and new Warframe players

DUVIRI Á LA MODE • Three distinct ways to play Duviri

EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER • The five moods of King Thrax

WAY OF THE SPACE NINJA • Looking back on TEN YEARS OF WARFRAME with Digital Extremes

THE 2005 DARK SECTOR PROTOTYPE • How much DNA survived from Warframe's earliest version?

TENNOCON • Meeting the fans

RIGHT WARFRAME OF MIND • Chatting design with lead concept artist ERIC VEDDER

SPOILER SECTOR • Warframe's greatest twists

VOID OF ANSWERS • Warframe's enduring mystery - who is the Man in the Wall?

NOT SO SILENT ASSASSIN • Creating the soundscape for Warframe with KEITH POWER and GEORGE SPANOS

LOOK INTO YOUR SOULFRAME • What to expect from the next game

PC PowerPlay REVIEW

This month's brain-eating reviewers…

KNOW YOUR NECROMORPHS • From Necro-A to Necro-B

DEAD MAN WALKING • The DEAD SPACE remake is a promising portent for the series' future

DEAD NEW • So what does the remake add?

KEEP IN CONTACT SPORT • ROLLER DRAMA is a narrative game with a few bruises

FRANKY'S FEATURES • Anatomy of a (literally) self-made man

ON THE CRUISE • ONE PIECE ODYSSEY is an easy-going JRPG romp through the manga’s history

ARCING TOWARDS ADVENTURE • The manga story arcs featured in Odyssey

TAKING INVENTORY • Don't descend without these essential items

DEEP DOWN • COLOSSAL CAVE is an education in '70s adventure game design

FELINE FINE • Forspoken is a cat lover's heaven. Here are my faves

DON'T SPEAK • FORSPOKEN could have been excellent if it tried a little harder

EASILY FREY'D • What if enemies could analyse Frey?

TIMELESS CRISIS • PERSONA 3 PORTABLE creeps along, but it's still top-class

THE SOCIAL HOUR • Social Links do more than just empower...