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.

GRIMDARKEST • How dark is too dark?

PC PowerPlay

Gaming news

DAD’S ARMY • Generals are always fighting the last war, and so are game developers.

ALL THE DIFFERENCE • Not less travelled, just waiting to be explored.

Real quest

SEASON PASS • MYTHIC QUEST keeps facing real gaming industry issues with a smile.

A COLLECTION ASIDE

RIDE OR DIE • DARKEST DUNGEON II CHARTS A NEW PATH THROUGH TERROR IN A ROGUELIKE ROAD TRIP TO SAVE HUMANITY. JUST MIND THE ‘NEXT EXIT: MADNESS’ SIGNS.

RIDE IN STYLE • Upgrade your wagon with parts you collect

WHO’S WHO? • You’ll have nine heroes to choose from at Early Access launch

MEMORIES OF MURDER • Darkest Dungeon II vs Darkest Dungeon

STABBING 2.0 • A peek at some of the unlockable skills in Darkest Dungeon II

EXPEDITIONS: ROME • Swords, sandals, and a serious RPG under the toga.

DIABLO II: RESURRECTED • The satanic lord of action RPGs returns

PATHFINDER: WRATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS • A fantasy RPG split between two worlds

ALIVE & KICKING • Playing my first match in BLOOD BOWL 3 – and surviving to tell the tale.

LEAGUE LEGENDS • Star players are cheaper now. So let’s get to know a few of them

BOWLED OVER • There have been more than three Blood Bowl videogames, but who’s counting?

OVER THE YEARS • A timeline of the different versions of Blood Bowl

LET’S KILL CRUNCH • Meet the game makers determined to stop development from ruining lives.

TRIPLE YAY • The big-budget studios changing things for the better.

DARK AGES • The most notorious examples of games industry crunch.

FREE-RANGE GAMES • The best work of the devs we interviewed.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM • A familiar story from a different perspective.

AGE OF EMPIRES 4 • Adding a new dimension to wargaming.

GAMEDEC • Solve crimes as a virtual Sherlock Holmes

TWELVE MINUTES • Solve a time loop mystery without leaving your flat

Games • YOUR GUIDE TO THE LATEST PC GAMES.

FREAK SHOW • The village’s creepiest residents

LADY KILLER • RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE is a collection of bizarre, beautiful haunted houses, with some of the scariest moments in the entire series.

FAMILIAR TERRITORY • All the ways Village is like Resident Evil 4

FLAVOUR TOWN • The Duke’s tastiest stat-boosting recipes

IT’S COMPLICATED • Making sense of the Drakengard-Nier timeline

NIER AT HAND • NIER REPLICANT is a welcome second chance for a singular action-RPG.

BUG OR INTENTIONAL? • It’s full of surreal imagery, but also a few bugs. Can you tell them apart?

ROAD TRIPPIN’ • Strap in for a surreal ride across the American midwest in HITCHHIKER.

MY NAUGHTY REPORT • What do the bosses think?

CIRCUIT BREAKER • SILICON DREAMS asks, are you feeling lucky, cyberpunk?

MOTO IMMORTALS • Four legends from MotoGP 21’s retro rider content

SCRAPING BY • Despite technical wobbles, MOTOGP 21 justifies another annual release.

Tech • YOUR GUIDE TO PC...