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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SPACE... THE FINAL • We’re mixing our metaphors again.

WAR THUNDER GETS A BRAND NEW ENGINE AND PRETTIER GRAPHICS IN ITS BIG ‘NEW POWER’ UPDATE • The sky now looks nicer in the military simulator.

Sea of Thieves will see its ‘biggest year yet’ in 2021 • Rare promises a lot of ongoing support for the pirate sim.

Former EA boss Patrick Söderlund’s new studio is making a PVP shooter • Embark’s first project has also entered full production.

Twitch criticised over its ‘exploitative’ affiliate fast-track scheme • What’s five bucks for monetisation and streamready music?

INTEL’S MANUFACTURING IS BROKEN AND NEW ROCKET LAKE CPUS PROVE IT • The next six months are make or break as Intel hurtles towards existential crisis.

DARK WINTER • The big brother of the played-out Fallout franchise becomes fresher with each new instalment, delivering a delightful blend of top-down tactical combat and sci-fi lunacy.

THE MOST TOYS • In a game you can’t win, expansions are inevitable.

BIG TIME • How 2018 indie sleeper AMONG US became a global smash hit.

AMONG CHARTS • Among Us’ growth, by the numbers

A COLLECTION ASIDE

ONE GIANT LEAP • Be the first person to set foot on an alien world in ELITE DANGEROUS: ODYSSEY, an expansion that dramatically widens an already vast galaxy.

PAINT JOB • A look at Odyssey’s evocative concept art

TAKING SHAPE • Milestone Elite Dangerous updates

OUT OF THIS WORLD • Odyssey’s planets will look better than ever.

BALDUR’S GATE III • It’s finally here, but was it worth the wait?

PER ASPERA • Grow a colony that extends across the entire Red Planet

EMPIRE OF SIN • A new boss is in town to take over the forgotten gangster sim genre

INFINITE AMMO • How ’90s shooters escaped their certain Doom with an indie retro revival.

CANON FODDER • The holy texts of the retro shooter movement

YOUNG BLOOD • The next wave of retro shooters making their way to PC

EVIL GENIUS 2: WORLD DOMINATION • No, dear reader, I expect you to die.

GRAVEN • A Hexen-inspired shooter that aims to take us back to 1998.

HAAK • A mini-Metroidvania with serious style.

SHLOCK HORROR • Looking back on the pioneer of fear that was HORROR SOFT.

BACK FROM THE GRAVE • How to play Horror Soft’s games today

FACES OF DEATH • Horror Soft’s death scenes are so grotesque that you can’t help but laugh

Games • YOUR GUIDE TO THE LATEST PC GAMES.

SQUAD GOALS • Meet our favourite fresh faces in Star Wars: Squadrons

A NEW YOKE • Exhilarating dogfights make STAR WARS: SQUADRONS a worthy heir to X-Wing vs TIE Fighter.

FLIGHT SCHOOL • Before you take the controls, know what each button does

DON’T FORGET • A quick catch up on the Amnesia mythos

FEARLESS • AMNESIA: REBIRTH is an unforgettable follow-up to a horror classic.

ONES TO WATCH • This season’s best young stars

ON ME HEAD, SON • A solid if uninspiring season awaits, as FIFA 21 sneaks a top half finish.

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