PC Powerplay

PC PowerPlay is Australia's original and best-selling PC games magazine. Offering a mix of games and hardware coverage, the magazine gives a complete picture for the PC entertainment enthusiast. Inside is breaking news of new games, detailed previews of upcoming games, and advice to help 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 they can.

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THIS IS AN RPG THAT FEELS EXCITINGLY FRESH AND UNIQUE

The PC PowerPlay team

UBI STRIKES BACK • Assassin’s Creed boss pushes back on the internet outrage mills

YOU WANT HOW MUCH!?

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOUSE?

REDDITOR’S RTX RELIEF

Highs & Lows

FINDING A PATH • The DRAGON’S DEMAND is trying to do Baldur’s Gate III in miniature

PREVIOUSLY PLAYED • A quick jaunt through Ossian’s history of RPGs

JAPAN’S PC PARADISE • Welcome to DOSPARA, Japan’s biggest and best PC gaming chain

STRANGE SHADOW • Death Stranding encounters Attack on Titan

TOWER OF DRUAGA • A special 40th anniversary limited edition

POST-FINAL FANTASY • FANTASIAN NEO DIMENSION is finally out on PC

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

ARC RAIDERS • The extraction shooter that finally brings the genre to the masses?

THE THING REMASTERED • The rose tint in these glasses is wearing thin

MIRTHWOOD • Trying my best to live out a medieval peasant fantasy

WIZORDUM • Hexen and Heretic are reborn in this first-person spellcaster

EVE FRONTIER • Not a blockchain game, it just uses the old blockchain thing…

BEYOND ASTRA • Strategy and more take over the galaxies of space

BEYOND. FRONTIERS • Space adventure prepares for blast off

TWILIGHT BLADES • HOW CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33, a western dark famtasy evolution of the turn-based JRPG, is bravely venturing into the unknown

SWORDS AT SUNSET • Meet some of the key members of Expedition 33

THE VANGUARD • Sandfall Interactive’s devs on their own game

QUEUE THESE UP • Other great RPGs with turn-based combat

GAME of the YEAR • Celebrating the absolute best of the last 12 months of PC gaming

STARDEW VALLEY

UFO 50

PACIFIC DRIVE

TACTICAL BREACH WIZARDS

CAVES OF QUD

THANK GOODNESS YOU’RE HERE!

STRAFTAT

MANOR LORDS

SATISFACTORY

METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO

ELDEN RING: SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE

HELLDIVERS 2

BALATRO

REVIEW

Legacy gamer

This month’s Marvel-i-fied reviewers…

VEILROADED • DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD nails the action but stumbles on storytelling

PASSION FOR FACTION • Rook’s six allegiance options

LOVE LINE • A diagram of my romance with Lucanis

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS • System performance at 1440p

CLASH OF CLANS • The venerable mech sim innovates with MECHWARRIOR 5: CLANS

ATTENTION TO DETAIL • Lots of great background art to flesh out the world

SPOILS OF VICTORY • A successful mission gets you a lot

CLAYMATION CALEDONIA • Battling faeries, beasties and Englishmen in JUDERO

DRUIDIC DELIGHTS • Just who is Judero?

ROUGHNECK • STARSHIP TROOPERS: EXTERMINATION is buggy and occasionally bloody brilliant

BUG HUNT • Extermination’s arachnid roster is surprisingly diverse

TROOPERS VERSUS DIVERS • Comparison with Helldivers 2 is inevitable, but the two aren’t as identical as it seems

BLOPS • CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 6 is belligerently enjoyable

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