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

DAMN THE TORPEDOES • Full speed ahead!

NEWS

THE GREEN DEATH • Peripeteia is shaping up to be the most memorable cyberpunk game Poland has ever produced. Get ready to party like it’s 199X...

TWO POINT TOWER DEFENSE • When game genre mashups teach you how to play.

VIDEODAMES • The grandma gamers of the GRAND DAMES.

AWESOME FOURSOME

A COLLECTION ASIDE

WORLD OF WARSHIPS • THE EPIC WARFARE OF WORLD OF WARSHIPS CELEBRATES ITS SIXTH BIRTHDAY!

SHIPS OF DISTINCTION

WEIRD WEST • A new perspective on immersive sims

SHOCK & AWE • COMPANY OF HEROES 3 is coming to wake up the RTS genre.

BRICK BY BRICK • How destruction transforms a map

TANKS A LOT • Personalise your engines of destruction

THEY’RE GOOD COMPANY • Meet a few of the companies you’ll be able to field

GLAMPING • Rating the US faction buildings

MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY • Banter, ’80s bangers, and not a microtransaction in sight

LIGHTS OUT • In the open-world post-apocalypse of DYING LIGHT 2: STAY HUMAN, the choices you make can change an entire city.

DEAD SET • A history of Techland zombie games

HAROLD HALIBUT • A beautiful stop-motion game ten years in the making

ALLIANCE OF THE SACRED SUNS • Dune meets Crusader Kings in this ambitious strategy game

WE ALL PLAY GAMES • From indies to blockbusters, developers are striving to include disabled players now more than ever

NOT JUST AAA-CCESSIBLE • Indies are leading the charge of accessibility

WIN SOME, LOSE SOME • Accessibility is improving – but for some it’s hit-and-miss

FIX THIS PLEASE • The four most complained about accessibility issues

Games • YOUR GUIDE TO THE LATEST PC GAMES.

ORIGIN STORY • Old World’s civs and original leaders

SOMETHING NEW… • OLD WORLD is a historical 4X that feels like the future.

URBAN PLANNING • How Old World cities are born

RISE ABOVE • THE ASCENT is a quality action-RPG set in a mind-blowing cyberpunk city

CITY SLICKER • The Areology’s coolest locations

NUCLEAR OPTIONS • CHERNOBYLITE is that rare game that makes you feel the weight of your decisions

THOUGHTLINE MIAMI • CRUELTY SQUAD, the reanimated corpse of a great immersive sim

BIO-MOD BOD • The tools you’ll take into the field

LEGO ISLANDS • LEGO BUILDER’S JOURNEY captures the joy of those little plastic bricks

BRICKING IT • A brief history of Lego games

THE SIEGE OF RUDHELM • How an objective-based battles plays out

FOR THE ORDER • Go out without a limb in CHIVALRY II’s glorious medieval battles

Tech • YOUR GUIDE TO PC GAMING HARDWARE.

Roccat Magma • A budget board, but still really good value.

PC CONTROLLERS • When a keyboard and mouse just won’t cut it, it’s time to go analogue.

GAMING CHAIRS • How to pick a styling seat.

MASS EFFECTS • How VOLUNTEER COMPUTING is narrowing down the search for neutron stars

FEEL THE PULSE • Pulsars light up the night...