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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PC Powerplay

Remote chance • Steam is taking the ‘local’ out of ‘local multiplayer’.

Strong as a (Parad)ox • PDXCON 2019 announcements? Let s DLC what we have here.

Legends never die • With Blizzard on the ropes Riot Games makes its play.

Vale, the RDR2 rumour mill... • But who watches The Spy?

My Kind of Peephole! • I dust off my crystal ball and deliver a sequence of predictions for the next year in gaming! Marvel at my infallible foresight – some might even call it 2020 Vision!

Bigger and beta • The ins and outs of Steam’s smart new redesign

PRO TIPS • Get the most out of your new library

Eat Pray Love Execute • The semi-autobiographical account of someone who should never have been given any power; me.

Elder blood • The Witcher 3’s fiery deuteragonist, Ciri

MISAT TRIBUTED MISADVENTURE • One of Geralt’s quests belonged to Ciri originally.

A collection aside • The PC indies showing at PAX Australia this year numbered 142, including (a couple of) internationals, student games, games made on the train to Melbourne and an impressive collection from Geek Girl Academy. MEGHANN O’NEILL had some help from her 12 year old son, Nick, for the first time. He only disappeared into relaxing, bird-flying experience, Feather, by Samurai Punk, for a little bit. I think we can all agree on the best game title, though; a student grapple game called “Hooked on a Ceiling.” Meghann also found someone holding an amazing sign; “Geek out with me about Heroes IV. There are dozens of us!” At an event as large as PAX, there certainly were.

above & b eyond • The entire planet is your playground as MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR takes the classic PC sim to new heights.

AIR MILES • Highlights from the series’ storied history

FLIGHT RISK • Simulation versus reality

Beyond a Steel Sky • Return to Union City in Revolution’s next adventure.

HEIR to the THRONE • CRUSADER KINGS III is taking the grand strategy series deeper into RPG territory.

ROYAL DECREE • Things we want to see in CKIII

EXPAND YOUR KINGDOM • Crusader Kings II’s best DLC

Legends of Runeterra • LoL developer market. makes a play for the crowded card game

Surviving the Aftermath • management Rebuild civilisation sim. in this post-apocalyptic

Boundary • A multiplayer shooter that thinks in 360 degrees.

Journey To The Savage Planet • Discover the comedy inherent in exploration.

CRIMEIN AL EMPIRE • The past, present, and future of Rockstar’s world-conquering GRAND THEFT AUTO ONLINE.

EXTRA LIFE • Some of the best GTA Online updates

SNOW JOKE A festive treat

WAR ZONE • How modders and veterans created SQUAD, a military sim like no other.

THICK SKIN • How to take out tanks in Squad

ORDERLY COMMS • Silence isn’t golden anymore.

279 Games • YOUR GUIDE TO THE LATEST PC GAMES.

MIND GAMES • The stats that make up your character

Disco Elysium • Create your dream detective in a surreal adventure influenced by classic RPGs.

CRIME FIGHTER •...