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. ****Note: This digital edition does not include the covermount items or supplements you would find with printed copies. However if you take out an annual subscription and opt-in to hear from us we will send you any gift codes featured in-mag via email after your new issues become available for download****

“GRIMDARKNESS, OVER-THE-TOP VIOLENCE, AND HUMOUR”

The PC Gamer team

COPYCAT? • Woman says LEAGUE OF LEGENDS character is based on her, Riot denies it

V:TM BATTLE ROYALE

WARZONE BOMB DRONE

SOUND BEAMING TECH

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2010

HACK THE PLANET • MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR modders imagining a better Earth

How to

WEIRD WORLD • The most existentially troubling spots on Flight Sim’s algorithmic Earth

FAR OUT • How THE SIMS shaped the career of Far Cry director Alex Hutchinson

DOOM SCROLL • How id Software reclaimed its history by losing its leaders

TERMS OF EN-TEAR-MENT • How to refer to Doom’s protagonist

ENGINE DRIVERS • The bloody path left in id Software’s wake

BOOK OF TRAVELS • Adventure in a world where you’re not forced to be the hero

GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH • It’s time to play triceratops trumps

KING OF SEAS • Looking like hot ship, flagging this one now

EVERSPACE 2 • Be nice to Freelancers, they may come back with homing missiles

SECOND EXTINCTION • For anyone who thought Muldoon was the hero of Jurassic Park

LIGHT IT UP • WARHAMMER 40,000: DARKTIDE is coming, so grab your torch and chainsword

HIVE TOURS • It’s a prime holiday destination – just ask Nurgle

TOOLS OF THE TRADE • Choose your weapon

MEET THE NEIGHBOURS • Who you’ll be sharing the hive with

PC GAMER GAME OF THE YEAR 2020 • Celebrating the best in PC gaming from a year like no other

BLASEBALL

IF FOUND

FINAL FANTASY XIV

HALF-LIFE: ALYX

MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR

HADES

DOOM ETERNAL

CLOUDPUNK

FORT TRIUMPH

WIDE OCEAN BIG JACKET

ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS

SPELUNKY 2

VALORANT

ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA

CRUSADER KINGS III

MONSTER TRAIN

RISK OF RAIN 2

BLACK MESA

PHASMOPHOBIA

PARADISE KILLER

DEATH STRANDING

HOW WE REVIEW

OUR SCORING SYSTEM EXPLAINED

Chaos reigns

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

This month’s hairy, axe-wielding reviewers…

VIKING INVASION • ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA is the best Assassin’s Creed to date.

SKILLING IN THE NAME OF • Some must-have abilities you should get from the skill tree

GAME DAY • When you’re not hewing off limbs, there’s some fun side stuff

DRAGON QUEST • YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON doubles down on the series’ RPG elements with a brave new turn-based battle system.

NEED TO KNOW

FREAK SHOW • Some of the weirder enemies you’ll face

STUCK IN THE MUD • DIRT 5 ventures down a well-travelled track.

NEED TO KNOW

AROUND THE WORLD • Dirt 5, travel correspondent

PRETTY FALCON GOOD • Talon stories of good vs eagle in the world of THE FALCONEER.

NEED TO KNOW

WING AND A PRAYER • Decoding the UI

ANOTHER BUG-HUNT •...