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.

PC PowerPlay

EVERYTHING’S BETTER WITH FRIENDS…

HERE’S THE STUCK SUEZ CARGO SHIP IN MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR • As always, modders deliver.

TOO CRUEL FOR SCHOOL • A cyberpunk cult hit has taken the gaming world by surprise, and grabbed our imaginations by the yarbles. Get ready to enter an alien world consisting only of pain…

AN AGREED UPON FABLE • When players write history, games have to be organised thoughtfully.

Mega textures

DECEPTIVELY SMALL • How HITMAN 3’s developers cut the trilogy’s install size in half

SPACE HOGS • The biggest games on PC as of early 2021

A COLLECTION ASIDE

DRAWING BLOOD • Turtle Rock’s BACK 4 BLOOD has bigger ambitions than just being Left 4 Dead 3.

THE CLEANERS • Meet your zombie-slaying crew

BETTER TOGETHER • The evolution of co-op shooters

CARD SHARK • A love letter to history’s best tricksters, scammers, and cheats

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III • The epic trilogy ends with its largest war yet

GROUNDED • Finally, a survival game with good bugs

Unreal World • Two years on, EPIC GAMES STORE is still a golden ticket for developers and irresistible bait for gamers.

A GALAXY NOT SO FAR AWAY • Gather your launchers

UPCOMING HITS • Epic’s pursuit of exclusives seems to be slowing down in 2021, but there are some standout games that you won’t find anywhere else

PC GAMING LEGENDS • Eight games that have defined PC gaming – and defined us as PC gamers

RAISING THE BAR • The subtle, hands-off storytelling of HALF-LIFE is still hard to beat.

BIG CITY • Key locations in City 17

FALLING IN LOVE • LEMMINGS still haunts my nightmares almost three decades later.

WHITE WILDERNESS • Four of the absolute worst Lemming’s levels

FOUND IN SPACE • How the terror and tenacity of EVE ONLINE changed my life.

LIFE IN SPACE • Five career paths you can take in EVE Online

BUILD ME UP • The joys of creation and destruction in SIMCITY 2000.

SIM-OFFS • SimCity 2000’s many spin-offs

BROUGHT 2 LIFE • How LEFT 4 DEAD cured a toxic LAN environment.

LORE 4 READ • Some of the best comics based on Valve’s excellent games

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION • 30 years of wonders and wars

THE GREATEST INFLUENCER • PC gaming would look very different without CIVILIZATION.

HOLLYWOOD DREAMS • Pretending to be Pixar in 3D MOVIE MAKER, Microsoft’s weird 1995 animation studio for kids.

BREAKOUT ROLES • 3D Movie Maker featured some big debuts

CROWN JEWEL • CONQUESTS OF CAMELOT proved Sierra adventure games could grow beyond goofy parody.

CONQUESTS OF THE LONGBOW

PIXEL PUSHERS PAST • The graphics cards that helped define PC gaming.

Dave’s fave from the grave

Games • YOUR GUIDE TO THE LATEST PC GAMES.

PERSONA OF INTEREST • Who’s who in the Phantom Thieves

FAKE FRIENDS • PERSONA 5 STRIKERS reunites the gang for a bland road trip.

PERSONA NON GRATA • The Personas you don’t wanna meet in your mind palace

THE BRAVE AND THE...