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“THE BEST ACCESS AND INSIGHT REMOTE WORKING CAN PRODUCE”
The PC Gamer team
MORE IN STORE • Epic Games becomes a multiplatform publisher
DARKEST DUNGEON
HALF-LIFE: ALYX
JEDI ACADEMY
Highs & Lows
The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?
This month in… 2010
BEAST IN SHOW • How animal sounds are made for games
Bark life
PUP STARS • These pooches are professional voice actors
FUNNY BUSINESS • How SIZE FIVE GAMES became the kings of interactive comedy
MOUNT & BLADE II: BANNERLORD • It’s not finished, it’s still janky, but it’s brilliant all the same
WASTELAND 3 • Dark humour and ultraviolence in a cruel, cold world
SPACE BASE STARTOPIA • To boldly go where Mucky Foot has gone before
IMMORTAL REALMS: VAMPIRE WARS • Supernatural strategy and turn-based bloodsucking
COMPANY OF CRIME • Violent strategy on the streets of swingin’ London
A MONSTER’S EXPEDITION • Looking at humanity’s quirks through very different eyes
IRON HARVEST • In a war between men and mechs, who will win? Mechs, obviously
ROCK OF AGES 3: MAKE & BREAK • Stop-start gameplay leads to some serious marble sadness
MOB RULE • Conquering EMPIRE OF SIN’s Chicago as Al Capone.
DRAGON’S DEN • Meet the new boss
MAKING A RACKET • Here’s where the money’s made
CAP ’ CLOS • How to dress to kill
SHODAN SHOWDOWN • Irrational Games co-founder Jonathan Chey on the difficult development of SYSTEM SHOCK 2 – and how he’s still finding new inspiration in it today.
RATION RATIONALE • System Shock 2 was built around the idea that the player should always be hungry
THE LONG GOODBYE • How DLC gave us closure when the base game couldn’t.
NIGHT TERRORS • “Wolves asleep amidst the trees”
THE UNCHOSEN UNDEAD • Dark Souls 3 used its DLC to introduce game-changing new characters
REVIEW
Lockdown downloads
This month’s hard-bitten survivors…
DEAD ON ARRIVAL • Capcom breaks its streak with RESIDENT EVIL 3, a half-baked remake that falls flat in almost every respect.
FRIENDLY FIRE • A few of the survivors you’ll meet
DULLED • BLEEDING EDGE doesn’t do enough to stand out.
ROLE CALL • Bleeding Edge ticks off all the hero game archetypes
NEED TO KNOW
DEEP DIVE • IN OTHER WATERS lets you explore a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean.
BACK TO SCHOOL • Here’s a lesson from the xenobiologist Ellery Vas about the Singstalk species
LIVE LIKE A KING • Look after peasants and lords in monarch-’em-up YES, YOUR GRACE.
BATTLEFIELD 1243 • The fights of Yes, Your Grace
NEED TO KNOW
The Complex LABRAT • THE COMPLEX is a visually impressive, but unambitious, live-action adventure.
VIDEO OUT • Better FMV games you should play
NEED TO KNOW
REVVED UP • The chase is on in foxy hunting game REV
NEED TO KNOW
POINTY BLEND • Stick...