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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"THE RTS GENRE REALLY HELPED DEFINE PC GAMING"

The PC PowerPlay team

CRACKING THE CODE • The designers of some of the BIGGEST RPGs think more complex tech is making things harder

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

CULTURE WAR • Why did the PC gaming community learn to hate prebuilt computers?

THE MEME BATTLEFIELD • A selection of the anti-prebuilt memes that have circulated around the internet

MOD CONS • Try your hand at maps for these games

FOLLOW DESIGNS • MICHAEL HÜLL on being a level designer, and how he got there

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

SHADOWS OF DOUBT • An endless Deus Ex that could become a stone-cold classic

HYPERVIOLENT • System Shock seeks Doom for old-school shooter shenanigans

JAGGED ALLIANCE 3 • Embrace the mess as all of your plans go up in flames

HUMANITY • You got some Lemmings in my 20th century minimalism

WRESTLEQUEST • A wrestling-theme RPG that’ll make you go, “OH YEAH”

KRIEGSFRONT TACTICS • This is my mecha rifle; this is my mecha gun

SLAY THE PRINCESS • Not your typical damsel in distress

A STORM APPROACHES • WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR: REALMS OF RUIN is a fast, accessible RTS - and a grand introduction for Games Workshop’s mythic setting

HERE COMES THE CAVALRY • The RTS genre is back - here are some more games we’re looking forward to

HAMMER TIME • The best Warhammer games you can buy right now

THE HISTORY OF STAR WARS GAMES • The unstoppable sci-fi franchise has spawned a legion of interactive experiences, including some of the PC’s most important games

SUDDENLY SILENCED • The best game ideas that got sent to the garbage compactor

STAR WARS ECLIPSE • What do we know about it right now?

EYE-ON CANON • After Disney purchased Star Wars, the series’ timeline was completely rearranged

THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL GAMES ON PC • From trainwreck ports and moral panics to lootbox disasters

PC PowerPlay REVIEW

This month's Jar Jar Binks dodging reviewers…

TAKING A STANCE • What your favourite combat stance says about you

KESTIS RUN • STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR is a grand sequel with Souls-like action

LORE BREAK • When does Jedi: Survivor happen in the Star Wars timeline?

WEATHER REPORT • Get a heads-up on the worst obstacles waiting in each environment

BE KIND, REWIND • TERRA NIL is a soothing, satisfying and educational environmentalist puzzler

THROWING SHADERS • THE LAST OF US PART 1 is an appalling port of a PlayStation classic

THE FIRST OF THEM • Joel and Ellie’s earliest concepts

CREATURE FEATURE • The island of Avalt is filled with dangerous creatures

ROOK HARD • RAVENBOUND spreads its roguelite ambitions across an island too big for its own good

CARD SHARP • There are almost 200 cards to collect

STRATEGIC RETREAT • MINECRAFT LEGENDS is an action strategy spinoff that fails both genres

MOB WATCH • Legends’ new golems

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