PC Powerplay #242 August 2015

To say that this has been a crazy production cycle does not do the month credit. It has been insane, thanks to the timing of deadlines and events. Between June 3 and July 8 the PCPP team have put to bed three magazines – two issues of PC PowerPlay and one PC PowerPlay Tech Special, as well as a Games of the Future Hyper special. Everyone has bruised fingers and saddle sores from the amount of time we have spent sitting and typing. Not that we’re complaining, mind you. It’s an exciting time to be in the media. My first Computex in early June was an amazing experience. It served as a crash course in the tech trends I was behind on and I got to see the literal future…

DANIEL WILKS Repeatedly slept through his alarm @drwilkenstein MALCOLM CAMPBELL Ate one sandwich BENNETT RING Fought Batman @bennettring JAMES COTTEE Demanded a refund @j_cottee MEGHANN O’NEILL Moulded young minds @firkraags JAMES O’CONNOR Was born in war @jickle BEN MANSILL Quit smoking NATHAN LAWRENCE Didn’t contribute ALESSANDRO GUARRERA Dressed like Tony Montana @ALguarrera DAVID HOLLINGWORTH Bought a broken horse ALEX MANN Took a break after E3 CAMERON FERRIS Became a casualty of the rubber band wars @pcpowerplay SEAN FLETCHER Broke his mouse…

LETTER OF THE MONTH WINS! Write in to PCPP with your rants, considered opinions, and endless run-on sentences of pure awesome. The address is letters@pcpowerplay.com.au.  Each letter read by hand! This Letter of the Month winner scores himself an ARC 100 Solid State Drive courtesy of the fine folks at OCZ! LETTER OF THE MONTH THE FINAL FRONTIER G’day again. Sorry to bug you but i thought you might like to see one of my past projects and my current project. The first one on my YouTube channel took 5 years to complete. I started this before I started playing Eve Online. I no longer have this ship as it was sold to a business man for his kids to play in, lol. https://youtu.be/0OFiL1GDIE4 The next one is…

> Rhys Jennings: I really enjoyed it. Love the front cover > Joshua Geraghty: It would be cool if you guys had like a section where you re reviewed old school games (with a different rating system) n see how they held up and what u had to do to get them to work, what mods you used etc etc > Rob Thomas: Needs more helvetica!!! > Luke G-Man: Loved it. Especially the rainbow six special and the page about Tom Clancy himself. > Corey Evans: Too many spelling and grammar mistakes. If I’m going to read out dated news, I at least expect the quality to be better than what I read online. > davidbowie: No Simpsons reference on front cover for “Regicide” 0/10 would not bang. > jaytee83:…

I’m writing you this email because I always wanted to enter your PC rig competition in your magazine but never had a cool computer until now. 4 MOST IMPRESSIVE ELEMENTS: 1) Asus Maximus V11 ranger motherboard. I love the bios. It makes it so easy for a 1st time PC builder to overclock. 2) Asus GeForce GTX 970 strix direct cu 11 4gb graphics card. I like the GPU tweak software. 3) 4 X 4gb of Kingston Hyper X Beast DDR3 memory gets the job done. 4) Intel core i7 4790k CPU also gets the job done. LAST UPGRADE: My last upgrade was the TP-Link archer t8e Wi-Fi card. I needed it to connect to the home Wi-Fi DREAM UPGRADE: My dream upgrade is to make a simple pilot gaming…

If you’ve been hearing about the closed beta test of Wargaming’s World of Warships, and been wanting to get in on the action, this is your D-day. The game has now hit open beta. The closed beta slate has been wiped clean (which was a little alarming, we must say), but now you can join the rest of us and see what might be Wargaming’s best free to play title yet. It’s slower and more deliberate than World of Tanks, and a much more polished sim than World of Warplanes, presenting a great take on naval combat before the age of the guided missile. So sign up now, at http://worldofwarships.asia/…