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"THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO HEED THE CALL OF FFXIV"

This month Decided that retiring to the French countryside with Final Fantasy XIII heroine Lightning sounds pretty darn good. Chardonnay, Camembert, chocobos… what’s not to like? Final Fantasy XIV is now ten years old and, joyously, it shows no signs of stopping any time soon. For Final Fantasy fans like myself (as well as a lot of the PC PowerPlay crew), we’re living our questing, raiding, and chocobo-riding dreams. And, with FFXIV’s epic new expansion, Dawntrail, dropping in winter 2024, PC gamers are about to be welcomed to explore an entire new world. With new lands, cities, jobs, dungeons, threats, gear, activities and more on offer, there’s never been a better time to heed the call of FFXIV. ben.mansill@futurenet.com…

"THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO HEED THE CALL OF FFXIV"

Helldivers 2’s galactic war is much more than a mission selector. In a short time, players have become invested in the status of their favourite planets and reacted to gains and losses in a sector’s liberation. The simulated conflict has become an unexpected focal point of the Helldivers 2 experience. Unexpected to players, that is. To developer Arrowhead Game Studios, the war is a product of planning and storytelling by a specific behind-thescenes individual pulling the strings: what Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt described to PC PowerPlay as Helldivers 2’s ‘dungeon master’. “We have an actual person with the job title of game master,” Pilestedt told PC PowerPlay. His name is Joel, and he takes his job very seriously. “We have a lot of systems built into the game where the game master…

HIGHS Share the love Larian won big at the DICE Awards, and used its speech to speak out against layoffs. Incognito mode Steam has launched a ‘Mark as Private’ function, letting you hide your more, ahem, delicate games. Space Quest NASA has released a tabletop game that asks: what if a dragon stole the Hubble Space Telescope? Low blow Unionised YouTube workers were told they’d been laid off in the middle of a live-broadcast Austin City Council meeting. Out of the game EA let go of five percent of its workforce in February. Cursed Tomb Tomb Raider I-III Remastered on the Epic Store was mysteriously better than every other version, until Aspyr yanked it offline. LOWS…

People overestimate the importance of getting into things. “Oh, we ended up in the VIP lounge,” you humblebrag to your colleague, as they silently regret asking what you did over the weekend. “Oh, we’ve bought a timeshare in the Maldives,” you enthuse to your sister, her forced smile betraying her impatience with how irresponsible you’re being with your money. “Oh, there was a complex series of steam vents The Spy used to reach the underground volcano base,” The Spy tells The Spy’s handler, who stares forward impassively, never moving, never blinking, always listening. The Spy loves a good infiltration as much as the next person, but it’s only half the story. What if, after you’ve arrived, you really, really want to leave? The VIP lounge is loud and tacky. The timeshare…

BIG DECK ENERGY

PCPP INVESTIGATES As a poker fan I’m always on the lookout for a new poker game. I’m especially keen to find games that use poker in interesting new ways, like RPG We Slay Monsters or roguelike Poker Quest, both of which use poker hands as their combat system. So, when poker-inspired roguelike deckbuilder Balatro came along I was eager to talk to its developer – not just about the game, but also what I assumed would be our shared love of poker. “It’s funny, I don’t play poker at all,” says LocalThunk, solo developer of Balatro. That is pretty funny, actually, because Balatro has, well, quite a lot of poker in it. You begin with a standard deck of 52 playing cards, you make poker hands like straights, flushes and full houses…

BIG DECK ENERGY

DIFFICULTY CURVES

THE UNSUNG HEROES OF DEVELOPMENT Before entering game development, John Dennis was “an art teacher who really didn’t enjoy teaching!” as he puts it. A friend who was working at Team 17 encouraged him to apply for a game designer job there, which, after some hesitation, he did. “I was the first game designer they’d had.” Though at the beginning he wasn’t sure precisely what a game designer did, he was clearly a quick learner. He stayed at Team 17 for 15 years, and had advanced to the level of head of design, leading a team of 14, by the time he left. After a few years at Activision, he moved on to working with New Star Games and Five Aces, where he’s been for the past ten years. The game he worked…

DIFFICULTY CURVES

1 month EUROPA RELEASE April 16, 2024 | DEVELOPER Novadust Entertainment A Studio Ghibli-inspired adventure-puzzler, PC gamers play as android Zee as he solves the mysteries of a fallen utopia. Looks promising. TALES OF KENZERA: ZAU RELEASE April 23, 2024 | DEVELOPER Surgent Studios A Bantu-inspired Metroidvania in which you must try to reclaim the spirit of your father in the beautiful but treacherous land of Kenzera. HOMEWORLD 3 RELEASE May 13, 2024 | DEVELOPER Blackbird Interactive Another delay has seen the much-anticipated third game in the beloved sci-fi RTS to fall back to a mid-May release date. Keep the faith. 3 months SENUA'S SAGA: HELLBLADE II RELEASE May 21, 2024 | DEVELOPER Ninja Theory The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning original Hellblade, Senna’s Saga sees Senua return in a brutal journey of survival through Viking Iceland. STAR WARS OUTLAWS RELEASE 2024 | DEVELOPER Massive…

Ah, the life of a medieval central-European peasant. Untroubled by the taste of Doritos or the mental anguish over whether to buy a Steam Deck or not, their only cares in life were where their pigs had got to and the constant threat of dying in a thousand imaginatively grisly ways. No wonder they’re such great fodder for videogames. Manor Lords contains many such peasants, doing wholesome things such as ploughing with oxen and planing trees down into timber, but also features spearmen, disease and the leading cause of death among the common people of the time: lords of the manor. Despite its developer’s inspiration from actual historical events, Manor Lords isn’t set in any particular time period. And in contrast to a certain other game in this magazine’s preview section this…

Dungeonborne came out of nowhere to be the surprise hit of Steam Next Fest. A medieval fantasy extraction dungeon crawler that is effectively Escape From Tarkov but with swords and skeletons, it is difficult not to love. It also isn’t difficult to figure out where its inspiration came from. You’d easily be forgiven for thinking you’ve seen Dungeonborne in action before. Despite only breaking cover as Steam Next Fest kicked off, it will feel instantly familiar to anyone who is aware of Dark and Darker, the similar game that blew up last year only to be bogged down by legal battles. From the setting to visual style and of course, the main gameplay loop, almost everything in Dungeonborne feels like it has been taken straight out of Dark and Darker and…

First-person games tend to hand you a shotgun then send you off in search of someone to unload it into, so it’s a refreshing change to play a game in which the most dangerous thing you’ll be waving around is a cordless drill (and you’ll need some batteries for that too). Plane Accident is not a game about causing a jumbo jet to plummet from around 30,000ft, but instead casts you as an investigator, first on the scene following a crash and responsible for working out what happened using drones, email, and little flags that mark the location of debris. The tutorial mission is entirely set in a warehouse, with all the parts and items you’ll need in easy reach, but once you’ve sniffed out the reason this plane crashed (it looks…

AGE OF MYTHOLOGY: RETOLD

The upcoming Age of Mythology: Retold has just shown off its signature mythological monsters in detail, including the terrible Medusas, the flying Pegasus scout, and the titan Cerberus, and I’ve got to say the monsters are dang good looking. These visually punchy new models are part of the overall effort to make Age of Mythology: Retold a real upgrade from the original 2002 game, including changes to the models as you upgrade through the ages – though they come complete with a stack of classic sounds and twists on the old animations. The Medusa death sound is just as I remember it. That’s just what Age of Mythology: Retold producer Earnest Yuen had to say when I spoke with him about the remake, which will release this year on PC and Xbox.…

AGE OF MYTHOLOGY: RETOLD

The first 22 seconds of a game trailer can tell you a lot. They set the scene, perhaps flash some publisher or engine logos, and establish the setting of the game in an easily digestible way. In Kingmakers’ trailer, we see armoured warriors clash on the field of battle. Aha, you think. I know what this game is all about. With Manor Lords also donning its armour and hefting its sword in this issue, it might be forgivable to think that PCPP has been taken over by fans of medieval warfare. And while that might actually be true, following the siege of PCPP Towers in 2020 that saw nasty trebuchet injuries all round, it’s the 23rd second of the trailer that shows Kingmakers isn’t ploughing the same ridge and furrow as…

SpellRogue is a roguelike that makes you feel like a genius. As you pick up spells you’ll start to create combinations that just feel too powerful and would surely have been nerfed if the developer had noticed. Then, after a while, you’ll realise this is exactly what they wanted you to do. Best described as Slay the Spire but with dice, SpellRogue is less about building a big deck of spells and more about making the most of your limited options. You’ll start out a run with three base spells and can add up to four more. You’ll have access to all seven spells every turn, but you will need to roll some dice and get some luck to use them. Some require specific numbers whereas others just require a numerical…

It’s been a wonderful decade of adventuring for our Warriors of Light, but Final Fantasy XIV isn’t done with us just yet. While Endwalker wrapped up the Hydaelyn-Zodiark storyline, Square Enix has flung the door wide open on a whole new adventure in upcoming expansion Dawntrail. It’s an exciting new arc that’s awaiting us, one which director and producer Naoki Yoshida described as “the very best summer vacation” during last year’s Las Vegas Fan Festival. I’m sure it’ll be a muchneeded pivot from the world-ending doom and gloom the Warrior of Light has dealt with for the last few years, and I’m dying to know more about just what Dawntrail will bring. Thankfully, I was able to have a chat with Yoshi-P – the nickname Yoshida is more widely known by…

FINAL, FINAL, FANTASY, FANTASY

RETURN TO IVALICE: STORMBLOOD These Final Fantasy XII-themed alliance raids are fun. Sure, one of the bosses tortures you with maths, but the fights and visuals are still unrivalled. SIGMASCAPE 4.0: STORMBLOOD Final Fantasy VI’s Kefka remains the coolest series villain, so it’s no surprise he makes an appearance. He even gets a rearranged version of his theme, Dancing Mad. BARBARICCIA: ENDWALKER One of the many FFIV references in Endwalker, Barbarricia has a fantastic modern design and a fun hair-filled and windy fight to go along with it. THE MANDERVILLE GOLD SAUCER: A REALM REBORN You can’t do Final Fantasy references without FFVII, and what better way to honour the game than with its giant casino complete with minigames?…

FINAL, FINAL, FANTASY, FANTASY

NEW DUNGEONS Mystery Dungeon #1 These don’t have names yet, and I won’t attempt to invent one. It’s very lush and tropical though, with caves and rivers ripe for exploration. Mystery Dungeon #2 Much colder compared to #1, with giant purple crystals and a strange aura. It looks like there’s a fortress higher up, too. Mysterious. NEW AREAS Tuliyollal Yok Tural’s seaside town with some gorgeous South Americaninspired architecture. Solution Nine A futuristic town lined with neon lights and towering glass skyscrapers, located in Xak Tural. Yak T'El A plush zone, home of the Xbr’aal group of Hrothgar and the Mamool Ja. Shaaloani An arid zone, giving big old-school desert vibes complete with mine railways. NEW JOBS Pictomancer What if Banksy was a catboy? Pictomancer trades a sword for a giant paintbrush that can be used to draw pictures of elements and beasts to bring down…

UNOBSTRUCTED EYEGLASSES No more choosing between a hat or some nice specs. Dawntrail is giving equippable glasses their own slot so you can both see and look stylish. TIME TO STRATEGISE Strategy Boards are coming to Dawntrail, offering a much nicer way to demonstrate mechanics and positionals. The UI is still in the works, but what we’ve seen looks like it’s gonna be helpful. MORE DYE SLOTS Take a dye slot, double it, and bam, you got two. Dawntrail will have two dye channels for a ton of its gear, letting you experiment with more colour schemes and create unique palettes. PIXEL FACELIFT Dawntrail will start to trickle in a larger graphical upgrade. Things like shadows and lighting will be given a nice revamp too, giving the decade-old MMO a shiny new coat of paint.…

You might well ask why Elden Ring needs an expansion. FromSoftware’s brilliant fantasy RPG is already colossal in its scope and depth – several orders of magnitude larger than any game that preceded it. Yet any longtime fan of FromSoft’s work would have a quick and definitive answer – expansions are where the studio typically does its best work. From Dark Souls’ Artorias of the Abyss to Bloodborne’s The Old Hunters, From Soft’s expansions see its games at their most vivid, intense and strange. More than simple continuations of the base, FromSoft’s expansions are often surrealist side adventures that fold back into the main narrative in surprising, yet essential ways. Much like the base game, Shadow of the Erdtree aims to be exactly that, only more so. Following two years of…

TRAILER ANALYSIS

HATCHING A PLAN 1 The trailer opens with a shot of a withered arm dangling from a cracked, round egg. This is Miquella’s cocoon. Found in Mohgwyn palace deep beneath Caelid, it’s through this cocoon players will access the Land of Shadow. ON THE TRAIL 2 This area with the graves was shown in the key art, with Miquella riding on horseback. The fact that the Tarnished rides through the same area demonstrates that players will quite literally be following Miquella’s trail. BOUGH TO YOUR MASTER 3 The tree looming over the Land of Shadow does not appear to be the Erdtree. Interestingly, Miquella’s Haligtree has a similar split trunk, although one of the splits is broken when the player visits the Haligtree in Elden Ring. The veils above the tree, meanwhile, are similar to…

TRAILER ANALYSIS

GUIDED BY GRACE

Land of open glory FromSoftware applies its world design to a realm of vast scale Exploration has always been a part of FromSoftware’s games, but Elden Ring puts pushing toward the horizon at the front and centre of its design. Like most of the studio’s games, Elden Ring’s key areas are guarded by brutally tough bosses. But Elden Ring doesn’t expect you to beat them through pure skill or grinding attrition. Instead, the emphasis is on tracking down the tools that will help you overcome the challenge and gradually accrue power. To this end, FromSoft builds a world that seeps adventure from every crag and crevice. Crucially though, The Lands Between aren’t simply large and beautiful. Since the days of Demon’s Souls, FromSoftware has exhibited a knack for infusing the familiar with the…

GUIDED BY GRACE

HOW WE REVIEW We review each game on its own merits, and try to match it to a reviewer who’s a passionate expert in the field. The main aim of reviews is to help you make buying decisions. To this end, we’re selective about what we review, and try to focus on the notable, interesting, exciting or surprising. DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT DLC might be new missions for a game, or it might be a single new item. If we think you want to know about it, we’ll review it. EARLY ACCESS Any released alpha, beta, or otherwise unfinished game that you can currently pay for. For these games, we won’t assign a score, but we will tell you whether they’re worth your time. THEY'RE BACK Whenever there’s a bargain or re-release of a significant game, our expert will…

We don’t know about you, but we here spend far too much time behind the wheel of our cars. And not in a pleasurable way, but a ‘school runs and commuting’ type of way. And, worse, when we’re not driving we’re fixing up the car to keep it roadworthy for more driving. Thank goodness therefore that it’s easy to spend spare time getting behind the wheel of a virtual car… wait a minute… [checks notes] and also spend time fixing up the virtual car… [checks notes again] hey, are we sure this is right, guys? The thing is, though, as our Pacific Drive review shows, this is a fantastic game about fixing up, driving and making a personal bond with a car that’s loaded with character, in a game that’s packed with…

This month's buccaneering reviewers…

CHRIS LIVINGSTON Specialist in Stroking camshafts Currently playing Pacific Drive This month Legally married a Buick Estate. We all went to the wedding. KERRY BRUNSKILL Specialist in Backflipping with guns Currently playing Tomb Raider This month Shot bats, lots of bats. Oh, and in Tomb Raider I-III she went and… SHAUN PRESCOTT Specialist in Pieces of eight Currently playing Skull & Bones This month Shopped for parrots on Tortuga. A pirate must have an on-trend feathered friend. JON BAILES Specialist in Mindless patriotism Currently playing Helldivers 2 This month Dispensed FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY muchly and with extreme prejudice. HEATHER NEWMAN Specialist in Midnight operations Currently playing Persona 3: Reload This month Spent far too long giving cutey Koromaru tickles behind the ears. Stayed up very late.…

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With sincere apologies to the Magnum Opus from Mad Max, the Saud Kruger Orca passenger liner from Elite Dangerous and Arthur Morgan’s horse, I have a new favourite ride: the station wagon in Pacific Drive. It’s amazing. It didn’t look like much at first: just a typical late ’80s family wagon with wood panelling and a hatchback trunk. But over the course of the last 35 hours I’ve turned it into an armour-plated, radiation-resistant tank positively bristling with sci-fi gadgets. And it’s only a little bit haunted. Those upgrades (and the ghosts in the shell) are the result of barrelling through a hellscape of nightmarish weather, crumbling roads, and more horrifying anomalies per square mile than the entire STALKER trilogy combined. Pacific Drive, the debut game from developer Ironwood Studios, is a…

Lara Croft may need no introduction, but her first three artefact-swiping, wildlife-bothering, lever-pulling adventures were in real danger of becoming exactly the sort of forgotten relics she hunts for. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered hauls this trio of excellent action-adventure-puzzle hybrids and their original expansions – foundational examples of a style of game we’re still enjoying today – back into action. This is the definitive version of these games, feeling both 25+ years old and also brand new at the same time. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered runs fantastically: whether played on PC or Steam Deck, it scales to whatever my current display’s maximum resolution is without effort or fuss. No matter how long I played or how many times I jumped between games, saves, or hardware, it never did anything other than…

The appeal of Skull and Bones is laser focused. It’s about being on a boat. You have to want the fantasy of sailing big pirate boats and you need to not want much else for your time and money. You may come wanting to live the fantasy of being a ruthless waterborne pilferer, but to live that fantasy you first need to love sailing a boat in the direction of crafting materials. In Skull and Bones you’re allowed to get off your boat, but only to interact with vendors, mission-givers, mayhaps a buried treasure chest. In the vast island-dotted expanse of the Indian Ocean there are two major pirate settlements where blacksmiths, carpenters, refiners, and most contracts (missions) are doled out, both for the main quest and its endgame component. There’s also…

DEATH FROM ABOVE

ORBITAL STRIKE A brute-force earth scorcher from above, useful for taking out buildings as well as hostiles. Can also be used to coat an area in smoke or toxic gas. EAGLE A jet fighter is always ready to perform a deadly fly-by, hammering the ground with bullets or bombs as it goes. Steer well clear as it approaches. AUTOMATED TURRET A great choice when you’re defending a position, thinning out crowds. It will only fire at enemies, but tough luck if you get in the way. MINES A pod scatters these around an area, and each one is visibly marked with a red light. That doesn’t mean you’ll always notice in the heat of battle, though. HEAVY WEAPONS From machine-guns to laser cannons and beyond, you’ll need these to back up your standard kit. The largest models require assistance…

Picture the scene: four soldiers make a desperate scramble for their dropship on an alien planet, pursued by enormous, dagger-clawed bugs. Machine-gun fire rattles, green goo erupts, the landing pad teems with beasts as the quartet piles through the boarding hatch and their ride blasts off at the last available second. It could be a Hollywood action sequence, but in Helldivers 2 it’s merely the end of another mission. Indeed, it’s amazing just how often a Helldivers 2 sortie climaxes in screaming, skin-of-the-teeth heroics. And it remains exciting time after time, because that Hollywood ending is never guaranteed. Maybe you get tagged yards from completing your great escape. Maybe by a spray of bullets from a wheeling teammate. Maybe the group’s impossibly overrun, yet one of you somehow dives home and…

Banishers imagines a world where the restless dead are a common occurrence, be they wisps, giant monsters or chatty ghosts bearing unfinished business. Much as you’d call a plumber to fix a leaky pipe, here you send for a Banisher to remove a troublesome spirit, either by hacking it to bits or peacefully ascending it to another plane of existence. They’re basically Witchers, but without the genetic experiments that leave them emotionally bereft. If anything, Banishers is a game that goes the other way, practically wallowing in the full emotional palette as you aid a landscape that has been torn apart by trauma. There’s the trauma of the resident ghosts – many of which are literal manifestations of anger or sorrow – but also the trauma of the two main characters,…

Persona 3 Reload isn’t just a re-release or hi-res tune-up of the 2006 turn-based classic Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. It’s a true remake, with nearly every aspect of the game other than the story changing in subtle or major ways. What feels like thousands of voiceover lines, impressive new persona animations, sharp graphic design and some nifty quality of life features give Persona 3’s solid story a high 2024 shine. Sixteen years ago, Persona 3 was a landmark release for RPGs. The way it combined a sim-style RPG about high school life with a dungeon crawler including both Pokémon androguelike elements gave it lots of depth. Which is also a way to say that Persona 3 Reload is long. Really, really long. Enormously long. You’re playing for a full year, one…

What a joy it is to be back in Celeste’s world, with its distinctive colour palette and chiptunes to warm your bones on its snow-covered mountain. Celeste 64 isn’t a sequel, but a small game made in celebration of its sixth anniversary. Collect strawberries in an intricate platforming level, while suffering a heroic number of deaths. Same as it ever was, but with one key difference: it’s now in 3D. It’s an alarming shift from the previous game, which is one of the most exquisite and precise 2D platformers yet made. When you failed to pass Celeste’s devious platforming challenges, you could only blame yourself. Likewise, when you succeeded, it was all down to you. It felt so good to jump and dash across its twodimensional planes that the thought of…

Before WASD and mouseaiming became the norm, there were all sorts of crazy control schemes for first-person games, and in that light Neural Parasite’s isn’t too bizarre. You move with your feet – by which I mean you click on a pair of on-screen feet, alternately, to make your character walk. So that’s left click to step forwards, or right click to step backwards, clicking the left shoe then the right, well, you get the idea. To turn around, you click the arrows at the edges of the screen – it’s as if keyboards were never invented. I’m struggling to imagine a worse control scheme for a firstperson shooter. Luckily, Neural Parasite isn’t an FPS. It’s a first-person survival horror, a genre where control awkwardness isn’t just expected, it’s almost celebrated. When…

No one puts as much effort into a game’s presentation as Locomalito, developer of sidescrolling shmup Super Hydorah, and other games with a distinctly arcade sensibility. These are new games that look like retro rereleases, complete with hi-res screen borders, CRT filters and even box art to print out at home. That’s not to say the attention to detail is lacking in-game, as these feel like games that could have been unearthed from a ’90s time capsule. Toxic Tomb resembles a Master System game, with its looping, one-room stages and simple premise. You play as a demon trying to save a power plant, by killing the ghouls that have set up shop in its reactors – er, forget what I just said about that simple premise. But it’s just an excuse to…

RTX 40-SERIES SUPER GPUs

Three new graphics cards in the same month – what a super way to kick off spring. These three new ‘Super’ graphics cards are a chance for the green team to tinker with core counts, buses and budgets to appeal to our PC gaming sensibilities, and I’m pleased to say this lot are a lot more appealing than the last. Each Super graphics card carries more cores than the non-Super variant of the same name, and that’s about the extent of the improvements for the RTX 4070 Super. However, the RTX 4070 Ti Super comes with an entirely different GPU to the RTX 4070 Ti. RTX 4080 NVIDIA $1,799 Much maligned 1 The RTX 4080 was launched in November, 2022 and for most of the time since I, and many others, have been hoping for…

RTX 40-SERIES SUPER GPUs

It’s been around for long enough now that we take it for granted. A new game comes out, dripping in graphics, and occasionally when we run it at 4K it dips to an unplayable 58fps. So we go into the video options, turn the ‘DLSS’ option on, and get back on with walking through neon-lit streets in our game du jour. But DLSS is worth paying closer attention to. This tech is indistinguishable from magic. It’s upscaling our games in real time, at the point that the frame is being rendered by the GPU. It’s able not just to take a 1080p image and produce a very convincing 4K version that doesn’t eat up resources, but also to interpolate between rendered frames for a smoother visual experience and a higher overall…

WHERE WERE YOU?

CRYSIS Imagine pressing a button in the graphics options and watching your framerate double. We’d have been able to play it. BOILING POINT The thing is, it wasn’t that bad. The pioneering shooter might actually have been playable, with AI’s help. GEOFF CRAMMOND'S GRAND PRIX 3 Trying to gain the upper hand over messrs Schumacher, Hakkinenn and Villeneuve at 10fps was not easy. METRO 2033 2010’s finest barely playable tech demo. The shooting was really meaty too, not that you could ever enjoy it at the time.…

WHERE WERE YOU?

AUSTRALIAN PC AWARDS 2024 And the winners are…

The time has come for the big reveal – as we announce the 2024 winners across all categories of the Australian PC Awards! After exhaustive testing, comparisons, benchmarking and taking into account value, innovation, quality and features, we have our winners. Everything important that goes inside a PC, connects to a PC, or is important to the PC has been rated by the team of experts at PC PowerPlay, with help from our colleagues at APC, TechRadar and PC Gamer. If you’re looking for an upgrade – this is the list you want. And if you’re planning a complete new rig, well you can’t go wrong with choosing the gear here. Maybe you already run something we’ve awarded, in which case you are 100% entitled to feel chuffed about your wise purchase. The…

AUSTRALIAN PC AWARDS 2024 And the winners are…

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