PC Powerplay #240 June 2015

Time flies when you’re having fun and living between deadlines. I first started on this magazine around 15 years ago, my first full time magazine job after I finally got shot of being an employment agent. The magazine had already been around for five years. Now, 15 years later, I’m back and the magazine is celebrating its 20th year in print. It’s a huge milestone for a magazine and a huge honour for me. It was my start in the games mag inddustry and being able to sit in the big chair for the 240th issue feels like a great achievement, even though you guys, the readers are more to thank for our longevity than I will ever be. Rather than simply blow our own trumpet for the issue, we’ve…

DANIEL WILKS Moved house @drwilkenstein MALCOLM CAMPBELL Spent time with his family BENNETT RING Talked to Tripod @bennettring JAMES COTTEE Defended Jeff Minter @j_cottee MEGHANN O’NEILL Got a teaching job @firkraags JAMES O’CONNOR Didn’t contribute @jickle BEN MANSILL Saw the Back Street Boys NATHAN LAWRENCE Went far, far away ANGUS BAILLIE Stayed silent ALESSANDRO GUARRERA Continued interning @ALguarrera DAVID HOLLINGWORTH Stole cars CAMERON FERRIS Went grey(er) @pcpowerplay SEAN FLETCHER Started selling out…

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 a sweet Turtle Beach Grip 300 Gaming Mouse Kit! LETTER OF THE MONTH OFFENCES Felt I had to respond to Daniel Wilks article in issue 239. I certainly agree that citing people’s opinions and comments from years ago as justification for getting offended is not rational nor reasonable and that would be far better if we respected other people’s views and not look to get offended. That being said, describing people (or a particular person) with differing views as being “gullible and an idiot” seems to be…

Matthew Schmidt: I don’t know who Michael Schmidt was, but he sent in exactly the same Readers Game of the Year things I did! Great issue overall. I don’t know if the layout has changed much in recent issues, but it seems to flow nicer from cover to cover making a nice sit down read in one sitting. I’ll spare you the details of where that sit down read takes place. (Whoops – I screwed that up, sorry mate. Daniel) Rhys Jennings: found my first error. Somewhere you have put cs go as cs gp. Other than that, I really enjoyed the issue. Thanks MAKE YOURSELF HEARD! facebook.com/pcpoweplay www.pcpowerplay.com.au…

This is the gaming setup I have built up over the last 5 years to play Eve Online. I have multiple accounts and control up to 7 toons at a time. FOUR FAVOURITE FEATURES: 1. This setup runs 7 different PCs/clients, all running through an old Hewlett Packard router I got from a clearing auction. The most impressive machine in this array is my two HP Z400 quad core Zeon workstations with 120gb SSD drives and water cooling. They also the two most recent additions to the setup, and are housed in a full size server cabinet along with the internet browsing servers at the very bottom. Both running GeForce GT 730 4gb Graphics cards. 2. BenQ EW 2720 27” Monitor 3. Razor Naga mice 4. The Samsung SSD drives…

Ever wanted to modify your game, but didn’t know how? Have the urge to jackknife a lightsabre, or chainsword, over every ancient blade you see? Do you have an unhealthy fixation with Game of Thrones, and really, really want to make it into an RTS. Thanks to the new Assembly Kit from Creative Assembly, and a bit of help from our vapoury friends at Steam, you can now download a beta version of the Total War Atilla assembly kit. This kit will be familiar to modders of Shogun II and Rome II. The kit offers the following tools: DaVE, which lets players edit database entries; enables editing of the game’s database entries. BOB, which enables the processing of raw data such as textures, models and animations; TeD, which lets players…