PC Powerplay

Hello everyone. I’m Ben, and I’m your new editor. With thanks to David for all his good work over the years, it’s my turn for a go at this. Though, it’s not my first time at the helm of this legendary magazine. I launched PC PowerPlay back in 1995 and was the editor for the first five years. Maybe we still have one or two readers from back then that remember that incredible time:) Now, it’s a slightly different world. The internet is everywhere, and yes indeed you sure can get a lot of gaming goodness there, but what made PCPP the best in the old days still holds true today. It’s quality, readers. Good writing, careful planning, and access to the top devs that like to show and tell us…

ROCKSTAR REPORTEDLY HALTS RED DEAD REDEMPTION REMASTER BECAUSE OF GTA TRILOGY MESS Planned overhauls of Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto 4 have apparently been put on the back burner. Nothing succeeds like success, as the old saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in videogames. Sequels have been a foundational part of the business for years, and more recently remakes and remasters have become big, bringing our favourite games from years gone by onto new hardware. But two huge and obvious candidates for the remastering treatment – Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto 4 – have reportedly been halted by Rockstar. The problem, according to Rockstar insider Tez2, is the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition, a remastered set of Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas, which…

It’s official: Starfield is not launching November 11 2022 as originally planned. It’s instead now aiming at “the first half of 2023”, according to an official Twitter update. Bethesda repeatedly claimed that the game wouldn’t be delayed, but the marketing has told a different story. With a focus on developer waffle over substantive reveals, the official videos have been light on concrete info. With only brief in-game clips shown, it’s been hard to believe that the game was only months way. Director Todd Howard has dubbed it “Skyrim in space”, but he’s keen to emphasise that it aims to do more with character customisation than Skyrim did: “Some things we didn’t do [in older games]: the backgrounds, the traits, defining your character, all of those stats... a lot of the things that…

HIGHS Take-yo time Ghostwire: Tokyo’s director is interested in making a sequel. MM-No Final Fantasy XIV producer Yoshida recently asked that players in a new PvP mode stop saying “Nice job!” to opponents. Lego May Cry Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga arrived with an unexpected quality: air-chains and infinite combos. LOWS That sucks Bethesda has also delayed Arkane’s vampire co-op shooter Redfall to the first half of 2023. You bet Streamer Félix Lengyel aka xQc, admitted spaffing about $2 million on gambling in April. Deus Next? Square Enix has sold Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and three game studios for $300 million. A bargain?…

GAMING’S LINEAGES EXPLORED “THE WAY HE PRESENTED IT TO ME WAS THAT HE WAS PUTTING TOGETHER THE 1927 YANKEES” “Must have been born under a lucky star, this one,” mutters the gnome pushing the cart that carries your dead body. His voice is leaden with irony. Your luck extends only to the fact that your corpse is in one piece. A fat lot of good that’ll do you on your way to the incinerator. It’s an opening most reminiscent of Planescape: Torment, the classic RPG that begins in similarly macabre circumstances. But it also evokes The Elder Scrolls – namely the census taker who processes your entry to Morrowind, and mentions that you were born under a certain constellation. In that game, it’s a detail that contributes to a sense that you’re favoured…

It’s not often that a multiplayer shooter decides to reinvent itself six years into its life. In the age of service games that never stop updating, Blizzard is taking a chance by revamping large parts of its competitive FPS and slapping a ‘2’ on the end of it. Overwatch 2 is not a sequel in the way we understand them. What I’ve seen of the multiplayer PvP beta so far feels more like an expansion. Overwatch 2 will have more heroes, more maps and an intriguing PvE story mode, but Blizzard is also taking this opportunity to completely upend the meta it’s spent six years building with one simple rule change – Overwatch 2 is no longer a 6v6 game. One tank slot is gone and it’s now 5v5. Hearing lead hero…