PC Gamer

In addition to a great visual design, PC Gamer focuses more on communities, user-made content and of course the big-name games we know and love! Each issue also offers exclusive previews and insightful features to make sure you're at the top of your game. Delivering authoritative, honest, informative and entertaining reviews, PC Gamer is the ultimate buyer’s guide.

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“PARCEL CORPS PROMISES TO BE THAT FRESH GAMING EXPERIENCE”

The PC Gamer team

YELLOW RAT’S REVENGE • How a DMCA’d PALWORLD modder got back at Nintendo

THE AXE

AFTER THE DAY BEFORE

100MB WINDOWS

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

A SCUM SUPREME • Developers weigh-in on save scumming

MOTIONAL EXPERIENCE • PHIL STILGOE and JOE ELLS of Centroid UK on the art of motion capture

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE • A whip-cracking look at the newly revealed first-person adventure

DIVINE FREQUENCY • This horror-RPG-FPS built in the Doom engine is terrifying

AVOWED • Obsidian’s next RPG goes all in on first-person action

PALWORLD • Shockingly, animal cruelty doesn’t make for a fulfilling experience

REALM OF INK • Shades of Hades in an inky roguelite adventure

ENSHROUDED • Valheim meets Zelda in this co-op fantasy survival crafting RPG

WHEELIE GOOD • Freewheeling with Belfast-based indie studio Billy Goat Entertainment and its next project, PARCEL CORPS

THE BEST NON-TRADITIONAL WAR GAMES • Is it possible for wargamers to give peace a chance?

Holy hell

This month’s heretical reviewers…

SHOT DEAD • There are flashes of greatness in SUICIDE SQUAD: KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE

PRINCE OF PAR-SIA • PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE LOST CROWN suffers from Metroidvania slowness before it shines

SLAY THE STARFIGHTER • I’ve found a new favourite deckbuilder in COBALT CORE

ROUND 8 FIGHT! • TEKKEN 8 is a blend of nostalgia for fans and a pair of welcoming arms for newbies

HOLY HELL • THE INQUISITOR is a grim yet strangely gripping dark fantasy adventure

DON’T SLEEP ON THIS ONE • Cleaning up in THIS BED WE MADE

RICH ’N BEEFY • LIKE A DRAGON: INFINITE WEALTH is a dizzyingly huge all-you-can-eat Yakuza buffet

GRIMPRESSIVE • Playing hooky with fantasy free-running game GRIMHOOK

PUSH AND PULL • The world is your elastic toy in STRETCHMANCER

RISE AND FALL • Anger is an energy in lurid brawler RISING UP

ICHIBAN APPEAL • Riches to rags in YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON

GUANXI HULK • The kung-fu diplomacy of TOTAL WAR: THREE KINGDOMS

JAGRAS ALLIANCE • MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD: beasts and how to slay them

CPUs • Whether you’re Team Intel or Team AMD, you don’t have to look far to find a fantastic gaming processor.

PROS AND CONS • How esports professionals saved PC PERIPHERALS

CATHODE TO JOY • The reality of gaming on a CRT MONITOR in 2024

BUYER’S GUIDE • Build the best PC for your budget

“You pour rookies in one end and badasses emerge from the other” • Having a chill time watching the occasional noob die in XCOM: ENEMY WITHIN

“The temptation to slit throats is high” • Being a merciful ghost in DISHONORED

“You’re a prototype Big Daddy on the hunt for his lost Little Sister, Eleanor” • BIOSHOCK 2 is almost forgotten, but it doesn’t deserve to be

“Linking perks to personality makes all that stuff you can buy make sense” • A game of two halves, or more, in EA FC 24

DIABLO IV •...