PC Powerplay #237 March 2015

Anew year and my first solo issue on the magazine. It’s an interesting time to come onto a title, as the beginning of the year is usually the time when there are few to no announcements and an equal dearth of releases, but so far 2015 is shaping up pretty well. Coming into this job, little did I know that my first real cover would be an exclusive (and depending on the release dates of a couple of European magazines potentially a world exclusive) look at a brand new game based on a property I have loved for decades. I grew up wargaming and roleplaying, with Warhammer Fantasy being a personal favourite thanks to the detailed lore and nihilistic world view. To be able to take a look at a…

DANIEL WILKS Judged Jam. @drwilkenstein MALCOLM CAMPBELL Spent time with his family. OLIVER BARLES Left us for a golf course. BENNETT RING Moved to Melbourne. @bennettring JAMES COTTEE Did the robot. @j_cottee MEGHANN O’NEILL Was scared of Chocky. @firkraags JAMES O’CONNOR Tried to adopt Glottis. @jickle BEN MANSILL Refused to look backwards. JOAB GILROY Hated zombies. @joabyjojo ROBERT NORTH Got street. ANGUS BAILLIE Got sick ALEX MANN Talked about Dark Souls 2. DAVID HOLLINGWORTH Went to the fjords. CAMERON FERRIS Had to catch public transport. @pcpowerplay…

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 PD-G1 headset valued at $199 thanks to the good people at Audio-Technica! LETTER OF THE MONTH BROWN SPACE TROUSERS Alien Isolation. Wow! What a game. You guys really hit the nail on the head with your review for this one. From the anticipation of the game’s release to the, repetitive but, enticing dev talk about the game, its atmosphere, its level design, its INCREDIBLE lighting and sound. Yes, there are some issues, like having to restart the first mission a couple of times till you got the sequence wrong and…

Doug McLean: Awesome issue. Great reviews and interesting articles. Loved the RAAF simulator piece. Just wished there were more hardware reviews because now I want to get into more flight simming. Any recommendation on a good entry level HOTAS/Rudder pedal combo? I’m ready to upgrade from my $50 Logitech joystick. Matthew Schmidt:›It was all right, I generally don’t get much out if multiplayer games so most of the mag didn’t interest me too much. That’s rare though. Daniel Gibbons:›Do you guys like star citizen or hate star citizen. This issue sends of some mixed signals on that one. David Marshall:›I brought elite dangerous a few weeks ago it’s awesome , had the Commodore 64 version when I was a boy MAKE YOURSELF HEARD! facebook.com/pcpoweplay www.pcpowerplay.com.au…

FOUR MOST IMPRESSIVE FEATURES: 1. 3X 27” Asus MX279H FULL HD Frameless Monitors 2. 2-way Sli Gigabyte Ge Force GTX 780ti Windforce OC 3gb 3. ASUS Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 4. Samsung 840 EVO 500GB LAST UPGRADE: 32GB Corsair Vengence Pro Black 2133mhz DREAM UPGRADE: Another Gigabyte Ge Force GTX 780ti Windforce or a Corsair K70, my Microsoft office keyboard is a bit out of hand. *Hysterical laugh* FAVOURITE FEATURE: It has got to be my 3 screens, even though it make me slightly dizzy in games, it just looks... MAJESTIC! WHY SO SPECIAL?: I built the Machine myself and took me ages, my sweat and tears have melded into the artwork. 1. 81” of sweet ASUS monitors give ample room for gaming, working, adult content (when he gets…

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number has been refused classification and effectively banned from sale in Australia. The Classification Board who make classification decisions for films, computer games and certain publications deemed the highly anticipated sequel too offensive for Australian audiences, exceeding the bounds of the adults-only R18+ classification that was introduced in 2013. The original Hotline Miami received an MA15+ classification. The Classification Board provided the following reason for their classification: “The computer game is classified RC in accordance with the National Classification Code, Computer Games Table, 1. (a) as computer games that “depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally…