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“TURTLE ROCK IS HOPING TO RECLAIM THE CO-OP CROWN”

ROBIN VALENTINE

The PC Gamer team

GHOST IN THE MACHINE • HEROBRINE: a decade-old Minecraft legend both exposed and made real

PRINCE OF PERSIA

CRACK A BREW ON

ASS EFFECT

DIY

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2011

DECEPTIVELY SMALL • How HITMAN 3 ’s developers cut the trilogy’s install size in half

Mega textures

GLORIOUS MUD • How one man’s love for spinning tyres birthed MUDRUNNER

DIRTY WEEKEND • The best places to get mucky on PC

BIG BAD WOLF • How MACHINE GAMES reversed the reputation of licensed games

MACHINE GUN-DAM • The lineage of Wolfenstein’s bots

ALTERNATE TIMELINE • The way the wolf pack came together

BALDUR’S GATE III • Druids are set to turn Larian’s RPG sandbox into a zoo

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III • The epic trilogy ends with its largest war yet

ROGUEBOOK • Another chapter in the story of deck-building roguelikes

CARD SHARK • A love letter to history’s best tricksters, scammers, and cheats

EXO ONE • Control a morphing spaceship on a journey across the galaxy

VENBA • A journey to rediscover a culture of cooking

WOBBLEDOGS • Breed a mob of mutating dogs in this strange virtual pet sim

KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE • In parts of England some say that King Arthur is not dead

DRAWING BLOOD • Turtle Rock’s BACK 4 BLOOD has bigger ambitions than just being Left 4 Dead 3.

THE CLEANERS • Meet your zombie-slaying crew

BETTER TOGETHER • The evolution of co-op shooters

WANDERING NOT LOST • Unravelling the curious art and history of videogame mazes and labyrinths – from AMNESIA, through MINECRAFT, to the Minotaur’s lair…

BUILD MORE • Resources for lovers of mazes and labyrinths

AMAZING • Aris Martinian on the making of two Minecraft mazes

HUNTING GROUNDS • Fredrik Olsson on the making of Amnesia: Rebirth’s fear labyrinth

Dead set

HOW WE REVIEW

This month’s young, hip, and trendy reviewers…

FAKE FRIENDS • PERSONA 5 STRIKERS reunites the gang for a bland road trip.

PERSONA OF INTEREST • Who’s who in the Phantom Thieves

PERSONA NON GRATA • The Personas you don’t wanna meet in your mind palace

ONI SOULS • It’s a yokai for a yokai in NIOH 2: THE COMPLETE EDITION.

BOSSING IT UP • Your first biggest problems in Nioh 2…

NEED TO KNOW

LUPINE TO CONCLUSIONS • WEREWOLF: THE APOCALYPSE – EARTHBLOOD is an old-fashioned brawler with teeth.

THE BRAVE AND THE BALD • The hero of our story, Cahal

SHARP AS HELL • THE MEDIUM ferries third-person horror into a new life.

SCARY HOLIDAY

HARPOON ON • Darkly atmospheric action adventure OLIJA delivers great grapples.

GREAT GRAPPLES • The best things in games that latch on to another thing

BRUTAL LEGENDS • Make your own myths in GODS WILL...