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“PERSONAL COMPUTERS GIVE US PERSONAL EXPERIENCES”

The PC Gamer team

BEHIND THE MASK • RAZER moves from PC to PPE

FAREWELL, CS:GO BOTS

AUTOMATA’S FINAL SECRET

MAC’S SIMS 4 PALETTE

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2011

SHIP OF DREAMS • Before Cameron’s Titanic, a game let you explore the doomed vessel

Talking heads

SHIP MANIFEST • The passenger and crew of the RMS Titanic

LORD OF CHAOS • How XCOM’s JULIAN GOLLOP improved on the board games he loved

FIRST CONTACT • Three inspirations that hatched XCOM

DETECTIVE AGENCY • The story of Irrational, the studio that shut down to rediscover its roots

RATION PACK • A guide to some great games from former Bioshock devs

GROUNDED • Finally, a survival game with good bugs

RUINARCH • Heard of god games? How about a devil game instead?

HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER • Heavy lifting is a joy in zero gravity

TAINTED GRAIL: CONQUEST • A goat-man and the Grim Reaper walk into a bar…

GLOOMHAVEN • The acclaimed fantasy board game steps onto PC’s hex

HALF-LIFE 2

RAISING THE BAR • The subtle, hands-off storytelling of HALF-LIFE 2 is still hard to beat.

BIG CITY • Key locations in City 17

FALLING IN LOVE • LEMMINGS still haunts my nightmares almost three decades later.

WHITE WILDERNESS • Four of the absolute worst Lemming’s levels

FOUND IN SPACE • How the terror and tenacity of EVE ONLINE changed my life.

LIFE IN SPACE • Five career paths you can take in EVE Online

BUILD ME UP • The joys of creation and destruction in SIMCITY 2000.

SIM-OFFS • SimCity 2000’s many spin-offs

BROUGHT 2 LIFE • How LEFT 4 DEAD cured a toxic LAN environment.

LORE 4 READ • Some of the best comics based on Valve’s excellent games

THE GREATEST INFLUENCER • PC gaming would look very different without CIVILIZATION.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION • 30 years of wonders and wars

HOLLYWOOD DREAMS • Pretending to be Pixar in 3D MOVIE MAKER, Microsoft’s weird 1995 animation studio for kids.

BREAKOUT ROLES • 3D Movie Maker featured some big debuts

CROWN JEWEL • CONQUESTS OF CAMELOT proved Sierra adventure games could grow beyond goofy parody.

CONQUESTS OF THE LONGBOW

PIXEL PUSHERS PAST • The graphics cards that helped define PC gaming.

Dave’s fave from the grave

Unreal World • Two years on, EPIC GAMES STORE is still a golden ticket for developers and irresistible bait for gamers.

A GALAXY NOT SO FAR AWAY • Gather your launchers

UPCOMING HITS • Epic’s pursuit of exclusives seems to be slowing down in 2021, but there are some standout games that you won’t find anywhere else

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OUR SCORING SYSTEM EXPLAINED

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This month’s elusive but deadly reviewers…

RAVEON • IO Interactive gets experimental...