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There is also, apparently, an endless supply of Games Workshop video games... that’s it; that’s really all the future is. But, thankfully, for every dozen or so shitty mobile games or z-tier PC release, we happen to get a good one. And with a quality

The salt is oh-so-real. Riot’s latest blogpost about Valorant reveals some of the lengths the developer is going to in order to combat cheaters. Even before the game was released, catching cheaters has been one of Riot’s major priorities – not unreas

Fallout: The Frontier was in production for seven long years. A mod for Fallout: New Vegas the size of a full AAA release, its feature set was impressive: three huge playable campaigns, new weapons, full voice acting, and driveable, heavily-armed veh

Retrogaming; the fervent and irrational pursuit of a nostalgic experience, especially when your modern operating system won’t play nice (or other, unknown, logistical complications occur). Somehow, games from 2006 are now included in my definition, s

The Minecraft community continues to blow minds with its incredible builds, but even in that lofty company Minecraft Middle-earth stands out. This block-by-block recreation of JRR Tolkein’s world has to be seen to be believed. All of Middle-earth’s t

2020 was a decent enough year for MEGHANN O’NEILL in many ways, at least in comparison to how many others experienced it. She did find that (after working remotely and sitting at the computer all day) she did not want to sit (in the same place) and p

After more than five years surrounded by Vermintide’s skittering, shrieking Skaven, Fatshark has jumped into the grimdark future of Warhammer 40,000. Darktide pits another four brave souls against unrelenting waves of monstrous enemies in a city bein

RELEASE May 2021 | DEV Arkane Studios | PUB Bethesda | LINK bethesda.net/game/deathloop Deathloop puts you in the role of Colt, an assassin trapped on a giant party island where the main attraction is killing him. Colt, meanwhile, has eight targets w

Agent 11 is the kind of person who smooths back his hair at the start of a brawl, straightens his tie before breaking a nose with the flat of his hand. You never actually see his face, but from the way he bobs around, the man seems very happy in his

I love playing the role of the wanderer in games, but it’s pretty difficult to explore virtual worlds without some bloodthirsty monster trying to kill me. Is it too much to ask to quietly traverse The Witcher 3’s Novigrad, collecting herbs and pickin

Tactical RPG King Arthur: Knight’s Tale begins with an ending. The legendary monarch’s adventures, love triangles, and battles are behind him – we’ve heard them all before – and the future’s looking grim. Because he’s dead. His killer, Mordred, is ri

PCPP scores its games on a 1 to 100 scale. The higher, the better – though 100 is by no means a “perfect” game. We’re not convinced such a thing exists, so consider a 100 a masterpiece of PC gaming, despite its inevitable flaws. A 50 is a decidedly a

I’m on an aimless walking tour of Night City. Somehow I’ve ended up in the Japantown neighbourhood’s Arasaka-financed streets, where animated billboards for ‘Sweet Clean Speed’ and pornographic braindances climb the flanks of utilitarian skyscrapers,

Shadowlands is one of World of Warcraft’s most ambitious expansions yet. There are times where I feel a little overwhelmed by all of its complex progression systems. When I’m not chipping away at expanding my Covenant’s Sanctum, I’m exploring its dar

Leaving time travel, telekinesis, and mind reading to the wayside, Dontnod has stepped away from the supernatural themes of its previous games for Twin Mirror, a psychological-drama of mystery and conspiracy. This genre of game should be well within

I’ve got Feds breathing down my neck, a friend I need to betray, employees getting into love triangles and rivals making big plays – no wonder mob bosses end up a bit high-strung. There are times when Empire of Sin’s missions and emergent chaos colli

When Zeus banished the evil titan Typhon to Tartaros, an infinite abyss of torture and suffering, he thought that would be the end of it. But Typhon has escaped, stripping the gods who imprisoned him of their powers and wreaking havoc on their home,

Since it began back in the ’90s, Sports Interactive’s Football Manager series has walked a fine line between showing you what’s happening and leaving you to fill in the blanks. It’s easy for those outside its gravitational pull to take the piss out o

1 This is a… erm… actually, I have no idea. 2 One phog is sucking water from a pipe, the other is vomiting it through the hose. Perhaps painfully. 3 You’ll drag these huge square watermelons around to use as bridges. Obviously. 4 You’ll have fungi bo

Would you classify this game’s protagonists as ‘cute’, or ‘a horrific monstrosity’? I think I’ll go with ‘both’. It’s still fashionable to put in a claim of cognitive dissonance, after all. I’m not ashamed to say (perhaps I should be) that, when I fi

Our Power Award is given to products that are best in class no matter your budget. Our Smart Buy Award goes to products that balance performance with price tag. CPU INTEL I7 7700K INTEL.COM.AU MOBO ASUS Z270 ROG CROSSHAIR VI HERO ASUS.COM.AU RAM 2 X

PRICE From $119 ONLINE www.thrustmaster.com The Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Edition is a flight stick made in the image of an Airbus sidestick. It’s an officially licensed tie-in. And as well as the base controller you can get a throttle set an

With the arrival of AMD’s RX 6000-series, we now know exactly how the high-end of graphics cards looks for this GPU generation. At the pinnacle of performance, you’ve got Nvidia’s RTX 3090 sparring off with the RX 6900 XT. That’s a fierce match, but

One of the easiest ways of giving your system a performance boost is to upgrade your storage. This is particularly true if you’re still rocking a spinning hard drive or two, although SATA SSDs will also see a notable speed boost when you upgrade to t

According to Assassin’s Creed, the fine people of Damascus, Jerusalem and Acre only had about three lines of employment: carrying breakable vases on their heads, accosting citizens accused of petty crimes, or just getting 30 miles a day in on their m

As I am writing these words World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, its eighth expansion, is just a few hours from its official launch. I’ll soon get to embark on a whole new adventure to entirely new realms filled with entirely new enemies, characters to me

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