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“WE’VE BEEN TO HELL AND BACK TO BRING YOU OUR COVER FEATURE”

The PC Gamer team

THE X FACTOR • The XBOX SERIES X event was a great advert for Game Pass

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2

NEW GENESIS

UBISOFT’S AVALON

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2010

THEATERS OF WAR • HALO 3 veterans reminisce about unreleased multiplayer maps

Sniping perfected

CUT CONTENT • Early drawings of three maps that never quite worked out

DIVINE INSPIRATION • How an obsession with ULTIMA VII led to some of PC’s best RPGs

KITCHEN VINCKE • The parts that make up Divinity

CLOCKWORK MAN • How a passion to make sims overcame all odds at ARKANE STUDIOS

AUGMENTATION • The Deus Ex developers now fused with Arkane

HIGHS AND LOWS • Arkane Studios amid the hits and cancellations

STAR WARS: SQUADRONS • Dogfights worthy of the franchise finally return

ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA • Are longboats and axes enough to stand out from the crowd?

STAR RENEGADES • Shadow of War meets Fire Emblem meets the kitchen sink

WATCH DOGS: LEGION • Play as anyone – and build the perfect heist crew

PROJECT CARS 3 • Slightly Mad Studio’s racing sim switches to slicks

WINDBOUND • A breezy boat survival sim that captures the joys of sailing

BANNERS OF RUIN • The roguelike deckbuilder genre goes into beast mode

OOBLETS • This life-sim understands the comfort of setting your own pace

GO TO HELL • BALDUR’S GATE III is taking us to dark places, and it’s making darkness a mechanic too.

NOT SO EARLY ACCESS • Why “maybe August” became late September

REVIEW

Port of call

This month’s robot-huntin’ reviewers…

ROBOT WARS • Go on a memorable sci-fi safari as you hunt down robotic big game in HORIZON ZERO DAWN.

NEED TO KNOW

JAW AND ORDER • How to put down a mighty Thunderjaw

WHAT IS HORIZON ZERO DAWN? • The bits and pieces I can recognise in Guerrilla Games’ sci-fi sandbox

STRAND AND DELIVER • Become a post-apocalyptic postman in DEATH STRANDING.

METAL GEAR • Tools of the trade

CITY SLICKER • BEYOND A STEEL SKY builds a LINC to the past.

NEED TO KNOW

GOING BEYOND • Titles we were reminded of as we played

SMOOTH OPERATOR • Creating a team in F12020 brings together a decade of evolution.

NEED TO KNOW

MOST. WINS. EVER.

AWAY WITH THE FAERIES • FAE TACTICS revives and simplifies the tactics JRPG.

NEED TO KNOW

MAGICAL MENAGERIE • A few of the unusual friends you can find

CARD GAME • PAPER BEAST is two halves of a fantastic VR experience.

NEED TO KNOW

BESTIARY • Judging Paper Beast’s best creatures

MEAT IS MURDER • CARRION is more of a buffet line than a hunting trip.

NEED TO KNOW

MEGA BLAST • ROCKET ARENA is an exciting evolution of a classic shooter mode.

NEED TO KNOW

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