What size is the human eyeball? Why aren’t scientific measurements listed in American so we can understand them? What animal should always wear goggles? These questions, along with everything you wanted to know about PAX can be answered in the next 76 minutes of your life if you listen to this podcast. Don’t tell me that you’re not curious why a man was giving out diamonds to playtesters; what we thought of the great Houdini of PC gaming (Duke Nukem Forever), Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad and Torchlight 2 after playing them on the floor; what the most popular game was; and everything else that we saw, experienced, and even hope to forget about this year’s fanfest in Seattle. You want to know; we want to tell you. So stop reading this and crank up the podcast.
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This month’s PC Gamer has the world-exclusive first review of Sid Meier’s Civilization V! Plus our definitive review of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, an exclusive reveal of the big changes coming to League of Legends, hands-on with Dragon Age 2, a first look at BioShock Infinite, and much more!
Plus, is that cover art awesome or what?
Still bummed out that you weren’t able to make it up to PAX this year to participate in the PC Gamer panel? Be bummed out no longer, faithful readers! We’ve uploaded the audio of the entire shindig onto our website for all to enjoy.* In the panel, titled “The Five Wonders of PC Gaming”, we talk about everything that makes gaming on the PC a uniquely awesome experience, including the recent indie blowup Minecraft, StarCraft II, the classic Chex Quest, and flight sim enthusiasts.
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*For maximum enjoyment, shout out your own questions during the Q&A segment and pretend that we’re responding directly to you!
Thanks to the killjoys behind the Hague and Geneva Conventions it’s now illegal to win a war by inviting your enemies to sham peace talks then feeding them poisoned danishes. You can’t disguise your tanks as ambulances. Soldiers can’t even use fake arms to pretend to surrender any more. All the furtive fun has been stripped from warfare.
PAX is just around the corner and most of the PC Gamer crew is mid-flight to the convention center. There they’ll be meeting readers, hosting a panel on PC gaming, and of course playing the best games and reporting on the latest news in the industry. Our ground team, Andy Bauman and Josh Augustine, talk about what they expect to see at PAX, the latest news–including Elemental’s review and ATI disappearing off the face of the earth forever–and answer some reader questions. Enjoy and be sure to tune in for PAX coverage over the weekend!
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It can’t be an easy job, building on what could happily be called the biggest gaming franchise currently in existence. But the team at Treyarch do have one big idea they’re adding to the Call of Duty formula. It’s simple, it’s time-tested, and it’s so obvious that you’ve got to wonder why it wasn’t in the last one. It’s gambling.
At PC Gamer, we hate redundancy. We hate redundancy so much that we won’t even tell you how much we hate redundancy. But we hate it. That’s why during this weeks podcast, we decree that the two Dakotas shall be consolidated into one. And in between our political proclamations, we discuss all manner of PC gaming news, including:
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Epic-length two-hour podcast! Evan, Logan, Josh, Dan, Andy and newcomer Chris Comiskey relay a flood of news coming out of Germany’s Gamescom. Relic’s Dawn of War II expands while Dawn of War III peeks over the horizon, Torchlight 2’s co-op trailer triggers a Pavlovian drool response, Jagged Alliance goes online, and Microsoft brings back Age of Empires and Flight Simulator – sort of. Then we play World of Warcraft: Cataclysm’s Collector’s Edition: buy or no buy, answer listener questions and interview the CEO of hardcore strategy publisher Paradox Interactive.
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Without good peripherals, your brand-new, screaming-fast gaming rig can feel almost as aged and clunky as your old one. But attach a new complete set of a high-end mouse, keyboard and headset, and it completely changes the way you interact with your games.
And today could be your lucky day. Logitech has given PC Gamer two full sets of their freshly updated high-end gaming peripherals to award to our readers. Two winners will each receive:
The G700 Wireless Gaming Mouse
The G930 Wireless Headset
The G510 Gaming Keyboard
Let the contest begin! Click the jump to find out how to win!
If you create a PC Gamer account, we love you. Our way of showing you this is to get you free access to closed betas from time to time, and we’re about to do just that for playful online shooter MicroVolts. It’s like a third-person Team Fortress 2, but you’re tiny, so whole maps play out in bedrooms and backyards. You need to be signed up to receive our newsletter, which is ticked by default when you create an account. If you’re not already a member of our community, just take a sec to sign up – we’ll be sending these keys out at 5pm BST (12 noon EDT).
