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“AT ITS HEART IT’S JUST A BIG, EARNEST CELEBRATION OF GAMES”

The PC Gamer team

OFFICIAL IDIOTS ACT • WAR THUNDER fan says tank is inaccurate, leaks classified military documents to prove it

EVGA 3090S ROASTED

FF XVI CLUES

R-RATED MINECRAFT

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2011

ANALOG FLICK • BOOMERANG X brings gamepad control closer to mouse-aim than ever

Test drive

FLICK FINDINGS • I played some games using Flick Stick. Here’s what worked best

BIONIC MAN • Meet TRENT OSTER, the bloke who launched Neverwinter Nights twice

HIGHER POWER • Three strange facts about Bioware’s onetime majority shareholder, Elevation Partners

THUGS IN SUITS • The rise, fall and redemption of Mafia developer ILLUSION SOFTWORKS

ROAD WORKS • The evolving cars of Mafia’s timeline

ALLIANCE OF THE SACRED SUNS • Dune meets Crusader Kings in this ambitious strategy game

WEIRD WEST • A new perspective on immersive sims

BOYFRIEND DUNGEON • A dating sim where you romance deadly weapons

DREDGE • Lovecraftian fishing game puts squid back on the menu

HAROLD HALIBUT • A beautiful stop-motion game ten years in the making

IN SOUND MIND • Experimental horror that harks back to the Source era

DEEPEST CHAMBER • Dead good deckbuilding in a Dark Souls-esque world

LIGHTS OUT • In the open-world post-apocalypse of DYING LIGHT 2: STAY HUMAN, the choices you make can change an entire city.

I SCREAM • How the Howler was created

DEAD SET • A history of Techland zombie games

WE ALL PLAY GAMES • From indies to blockbusters, developers are striving to include disabled players now more than ever

NOT JUST AAA-CCESSIBLE • Indies are leading the charge of accessibility

WIN SOME, LOSE SOME • Accessibility is improving – but for some it’s hit-and-miss

FIX THIS PLEASE • The four most complained about accessibility issues

DEAD CERT • For hundreds of days, Brian Hicks battled to finish DAYZ – and didn’t quite get there.

BEST LAID PLANS • The DayZ features that never happened

CZECH IT OUT • Great games from the Republic

REVIEW

Mixed up

This month’s historically significant reviewers…

SOMETHING NEW… • OLD WORLD is a historical 4X that feels like the future.

NEED TO KNOW

ORIGIN STORY • Old World’s civs and original leaders

URBAN PLANNING • How Old World cities are born

RISE ABOVE • THE ASCENT is a quality action-RPG set in a mind-blowing cyberpunk city

CITY SLICKER • The Arcology’s coolest locations

LONDON CALLING • Four Londoners are about to have a very bad day in narrative adventure LAST STOP

COR BLIMEY • Other games that get the UK right

NUCLEAR OPTIONS • CHERNOBYLITE is a rare game that makes you feel the weight of your decisions

NEED TO KNOW

MUTATIONS • Chernobylite dabbles in many...