Also, THE TOP 100 IS HERE. Yes, the sexiest list of the year has arrived, in which we deliver our infallible and entirely correct list of the 100 best PC games in the world right now. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll want to write a strongly worded letter of disagreement. You can argue the case for your favourite games in the top 100 discussion happening on our forums right now.

The issue hits shops today and subscribers should have had it for about a week. It’s also available online, through Zinio and through the Apple Newsstand. Read on to find out what else lies behind the beard.

In our previews section this month, Tom Francis takes to the lanes in Dota 2, Chris Thursten takes to the planes in X-Plane 10, then takes the reins in Warlock: Master of the Arcane. Tom takes the blame in Faster Than Light and Chris uses hammers to maim in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, winning the previews section by a score of 3 -2. Elsewhere, Will Porter takes a look at Mass Effect 3 and Henry Winchester checks out Sniper Elite V2.

The reviews section doesn’t rhyme quite as well as the previews section this month, but it’s full of exciting games. Reviewed inside: Star Wars: The Old Republic, Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand, Trine 2, APB Reloaded, Anno 2070, English Country Tune, Ignite, Sonic Generations, Serious Sam 3: BFE, Magicka: The Stars are Left, Rochard, InMomentum, Cave Story+, Fractal: Make Blooms not War, Grotesque Tactics 2: Dungeons and Donuts, Waves, Dead Island: Bloodbath Arena and For The Awesome.

In Extra Life we recount some of the funniest and strangest things that have happened to us in games recently. Rich McCormick becomes an accidental cannibal in Skyrim, Henry is way ahead of the criminals in LA Noire, Tom F dons a jetpack in Spelunky and Chris bribes all the space pirates he can throw money at in Sins of a Solar Empire.

Then there’s our top ten free downloads section, in which we gather together some great Shogun 2 mods and go slightly insane playing Worry of Newport. Tom Senior returns to Terraria to explore the huge 1.1 patch in Update, and Duncan Geere discovers how Bioshock was made in a four page feature we decided to call “The Making of Bioshock.”

There’s tons more inside, like Adam’s hardware report on a way to use SSDs to speed up your system, our round-up of the best heatsinks for your CPU and our special report on this year’s most promising racing sims. If you subscribe you’ll get each issue, cheaper, earlier, and clad in our cover-line free cover (as seen above). You can also buy it online, through Zinio, or Apple Newsstand. Enjoy the issue!

As we ready ourselves for the Christmas feasts and New Year’s celebrations to come, we thought it would be the perfect time to look back and celebrate the very best of 2011 in our Game of the Year Awards. We also take a good look forwards at the most exciting games of 2012. The new issue contains a comprehensive run down of every game scheduled to come out on PC next year, so you can plan ahead, or simply reflect on how awesome PC gaming is going to be in the next 12 months.

There’s more inside, of course. Much, much more, including free access to Settlers Online, a free car in APB Reloaded, and our review of this little indie game you may have heard of called Minecraft. The issue will hit stores next Wednesday, andwill also be available to buy online, via Apple Newsstand and on Zinio. Read on, Padawan, and learn the secrets of Issue 235.

With every single game of 2012 successfully previewed, we switched our favourite review-bots from “dormant” to “judgemental” and let them loose on the latest releases. First, there’s the small matter of our six page review of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Tom Francis took care of that one. Then we left-clicked on Steve Hogarty to select and right-clicked on Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, used RICHARD COBBETT on LA NOIRE, para-dropped Graham onto Modern Warfare 3 and sent Jaz tunnelling deep into Minecraft’s bountiful crust.

This issue we also review Need for Speed: The Run, Sword of the Stars 2, DC Universe Online free to play, Jurassic Park: The Game, The Tiny Bang Story, Disciples 3: Resurrection, The Binding of Isaac, Fifa Manager 12 and Lord of the Rings: War in the North. Then, to top it all, Jon Blyth steps out of the shadows swirling a glass of cognac and offers another overview of this month’s eclectic selection of re-releases in They’re Back.

In this month’s Now Playing, Tom F can’t stop killing Orks in Space Marine, Chris Thursten can’t stop killing Orcs in Orcs Must Die! Tom H can’t stop killing cops in Payday, Rich can’t stop shooting men in Battlefield 3 (with his camera) and Henry Winchester can’t stop … licking boxes. With his cybernetic tongue. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution. After that, Chris pulls his axe out of an Orc and takes a nostalgic trip through Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Phil Savage takes a look at the latest Team Fortress 2 update.

There’s even more PC gaming goodness locked away between the covers this month. Discover the best in portable gaming in our rundown of the latest laptops in the Tech section, learn about Microsoft’s increasing support for Kinect on PC, and follow the adventures of Dragonbjorn in an exclusive excerpt from Stormcloak McCarthy’s bestselling new novel, Nord Country For Cold Men. If you’d rather receive each issue early, clad in our coverline-free subscriber covers (like the one above), then you can subscribe, and save a wad of cash in the process. Enjoy the issue!

But what’s inside? The screaming warrior on our cover gives away our huge Skyrim preview, but there’s more. Much, much more. We turn the office into the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. We talk to Gabe Newell about his Dota 2 obsession, delve into Firefall, take a look at Planetside 2, invent the perfect version of Left 4 Dead 3 and Tim strokes a Tribble. Read on to find out why.

This month's subscriber only Skyrim cover. DOVAKHIIN!

We have seen the future, and it is glorious. It involves a team of PC gamers clustered around PCs, pretending to pilot a starship without nuking themselves to death. The game is Artemis: Bridge Simulator. The mission: boldly pilot a ship around the place. Expect carnage, incompetence, and more than a few Star Trek gags in our eight page Artemis feature.

In other future news, our writers have flown all over the place to see some of the most exciting upcoming releases, including Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, Mass Effect 3, Bordlerlands 2, Tribes Ascend, Anno 2070, Planetside 2, World of Warplanes. That’s all before our enormous ten page Skyrim preview, in which Tom Francis heads to the depths of Skyrim’s deepest dungeons to electrocute, and then punch anyone who tries to steal his mighty battleaxe. Then we present 50 reasons to be excited about the upcoming free-to-play jetpack shooter, Firefall.

In the huge reviews section this month, we turn our glowing mono-eye of judgement on *deep breath* Dead Island, F1 2011, Desktop Dungeons, Age of Empires Online, Space Marine, Supreme Ruler: Cold War, Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation, Bastion, The Baconing, Achron, War inc. Battlezone, Chantelise…

*gasp* …Storm: Frontline Nation, Traffic Manager 2011, Men of War: Vietnam, Pirates of the Black Cove, Serious Sam: Doubled, Cthulhu Saves the World, Dungeons of Dredmor, E.Y.E.: Divine Cybromancy and Tim Stone’s review of magnificent German Bus Simulator, OMSI.

It’s not just our reviews section that’s massive this month. Extra Life has grown, too. This month, Tom F dives into TF2 as a Scout and is accidentally really good at it, Chris Donlan prays to the crate gods in Super Crate Box, Phil Savage becomes Frozen Synapse’s equivalent of a Pool Hall shark, Tim goes back on the WoWcrack and Tom Hatfield mods Fallout 3 into something else entirely. That’s before Tom S gets Japan drunk to make more ninjas in Shogun 2, Rich gets to the chopper in ARMA 2 and Duncan Geere destroys the entire universe and bowls with stars in Universe Sandbox.

New to Extra Life this month, we introduce the Battle Report. Rich gives a blow by blow account of one of the finest matches in the Major League Gaming Anaheim tournament. In Update Tom Hatfield goes a bit tank mad in World of Tanks, Tim plays Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops and makes them fight, and Chris Livingston goes on safari to see explosions in the wild in Far Cry 2. We also take a good look at the making of Total War: Shogun 2.

There’s still the hardware section, this month’s competition, our special report on the million dollar Dota 2 tournament, the Face Off and even more to discover. It’s too many pages to fit into one web post. There’s only one solution, and that’s to pick it up and read it for yourself. We hope you enjoy it. For an insight into how it all came together, check out our series of video diaries on the making of issue 232. If you’re inclined to subscribe, you can do so now to get every issue delivered to your door, cheaper, faster, and clad in our exclusive subscriber covers.

Subscriber copies will be mailed out very soon, and the issue will hit store shelves on September 28. Within, you’ll find a code that can be entered into Steam to instantly add the hat to your Team Fortress 2 backpack. It’ll fit the head of every class, and we find it looks especially fetching on the Spy. His cloaking powers make him the ideal candidate for any press trip that’s likely to end in a gun battle for a control point (which frankly is most of them). Once you’ve redeemed your code, be sure to put it on and come kill us on the PC Gamer Team Fortress 2 server.

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In this month’s preview section, Tim takes a look at Star Wars: The Old Republic’s endgame, Kim makes a horrible mess of the Emperor’s children in Space Marine, Rich takes a look at Tribes: Ascend and the becomes one with the night in Batman: Arkham City. We also take a look at Carrier Command: Gaea Mission and Tropico 4, and fire diseased badgers over high stone walls in Stronghold 3.

Then we sent Jon Blyth to the strange dystopia of Dishonored, a world devastated by a rat plague, powered by the oil of a race of tentacled whales. You’re a bodyguard-turned-assassin out to kill those who have wronged you using stealth, magic, weird gadgets and good old fashioned stabbing. It looks extraordinary.

Criag smeared warpaint all over his face and dived into Arma 3 to see how Bohemia Interactive plan to create the most realistic military sim ever. Once he’d returned giggling from his adventures we all put on party hats and took a look at some of the best PC games we’ve never played. Rich plays Morrowind, Owen becomes completely hooked on League of Legends, Tom Francis goes back to the first System Shock and Graham finally plays Deus Ex.

Our world exclusive Deus Ex: Human Revolution review fills our review section with its dark, golden radiance, but we’ve also turned our laser eye of judgement on the rest of the month’s releases. You’ll find reviews of FEAR 3, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Puzzle Agent 2, Solar 2, Global Agenda free-to-play, Proun, Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops and the mighty Street Sweeper Simulator. In the light of its recent move to free-to-play, we re-review Team Fortress 2 and Jon Blyth delivers fresh verdicts on Dungeon Keeper, Settlers 7, Privateer and more in They’re Back.

In this month’s now playing Tom Francis tells the tale of a robo-war of staggering scale. Six of us take on two malevolent AI opponents in an epic game of Supreme Commander. Rich faces up to his competitive side and beats it in a race in Trackmania United, Owen lures a bunny rabbit into his Terraria lair and Tom Hatfield gets shot to pieces in World of Tanks. Finally, Tom Senior, Tom Hatfield and Tom Francis fight to become the best Tom in Magicka PvP.th

There’s even more hiding in the latest issue. We return to Aion in Update, boot up Hidden & Dangerous in in Reinstall and round up the best new graphics card in our hardware section.

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Read on to find out what else we’ve managed to cram into the August issue of PC Gamer UK.

Leaping out of this issue like a sexually frustrated facehugger, you’ll find even more slithery, horrible aliens as we explore the new Zerg units in our feature on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm. Then we take a look at the best upcoming MMOs in our feature on The New Online Heroes.

Then there’s the small matter of how the PC stole E3 this year. Discover how with our previews on Bioshock Infinite, Far Cry 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, XCOM, Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, Hitman Absolution, Dead Island, Sword of the Stars 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Metro: Last Light, Arma 3 and more.

Snapping ourselves back to the present, we take on all the latest releases in our review section. This issue you’ll get reviews on Duke Nukem Forever, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, Capsized, Beep, The Sims 3: Generations, Terraria, Frozen Synapse, Bioshock 2: Minerva’s Den, Fallout: New Vegas – Honest Hearts, Lego Pirates of the Carribean, Vertex Dispenser, Mythos, Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy, Alice: Madness Returns, The Last Templar, Battleslots and Pride of Nations. Then we physically fight each other to review BUTTON.

Swiftly recovering from list exhaustion, we played yet more games and wrote about the funny things that happened in them in this month’s Extra Life. Richard Cobbett bloodies his sword in The Witcher 2, Tom Francis gets to grips with gravity in Capsized, Chris Donland becomes a dragon in Hoard, Owen absolutley will not learn how to play Brink properly, and Jon Blyth wonders if Bulletstorm is the new Duke Nukem. We also examine the highs and lows of Rift’s first world event in Update, and dive sideways firing golden pistols in Action Half Life 2 for this month’s edition of the Top Ten Free Downloads.

There’s more, of course. We haven’t mentioned Tom Francis’ return to the Fate of Atlantis, or this month’s Hard Stuff, in which our robo-reviewbot Adam Oxford tackles the latest innovations in PC hardware and reviews the latest motherboards. To find out what else lies in store, you’ll have to get hold of the issue yourself. Enjoy.

This month we waged war in every corner of Japan to bring you our impressions of Total War: Shogun 2. It’s a stunning return to form for the series, which is why it’s on our cover this month. You can read all about it in our six page review.

As if one great game wasn’t enough, Rich spent the month talking smack to angry mages and slaying giant lizards to deliver a verdict on Dragon Age 2. Meanwhile, Tim sent our army of review-bots off to play and analyse the rest of the latest releases, and they came back with words on Dead Space 2, Back to the Future, SpaceChem, the Oddboxx, Bloodline Champions, Dungeons and more.

Tom spent the month wearing robes and a fake beard, chiselling mysterious words into a huge slab of stone. We eventually wrestled it off him and realised he had created a list of rules all PC developers should live by. You can read all about them in our Ten Commandments feature. We’ve also had an in-depth look at the haunting remake of Dear Esther, and infiltrated Bethesda to bring you the latest on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

And that’s not all, we’ve packed in previews of Tomb Raider, Battlefield Play4Free, Section 8: Prejudice and Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword. In Now Playing, Rich returned to the land of the dead to write about Planescape Torment, Owen turned into a tiny elf and danced his way through World of Warcraft, Graham took a holiday in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam and Ed recruited some local gravediggers to help save the world in Hinterlands.

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Yes, it might have released back in 2003, but the seminal MMORPG EVE Online has been evolving ever since. We sent Rich to Iceland so he could catch up on the latest from developers CCP. Turns out they’ve been busy and still have a five-year plan of concepts and mechanics that they’re yet to implement. That’s a half a decade of content folks, all deciphered by Rich’s brain, using words.

But don’t fret if you have no interest in space, or MMOs. We still love you. We’ve got our hands on the most exciting games coming to PC and written hands-on previews just for you: Crysis 2, Total War: Shogun, Guild Wars 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Batman: Arkham City all feature.

Then there’s our Game Of The Year Awards. 2010 proved the PC’s strength and diversity. We reward PC Gaming’s new classics over 18 pages. You might be surprised at some of the choices too.

Onto the reviews; recently described by a reader as “simply astonishing”. This month you’ll get our verdicts on Call of Duty: Black Ops, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, Deathspank and more.

In our Extra Life section, Jaz searches for a wooden leg in Arcania: Gothic 4, Tom writes a letter to God after taking Supreme Commander to the next level, and Craig feels the true stress of a Football Manager. We take a look back at League Of Legends in Update and suck all the replay value out of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary.

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Right now snow is falling outside at PC Gamer towers. We feel a bit sorry for Santa, forced to fly around in below freezing temperatures in a rickety open topped sleigh. Your task is to come up with an alternative vehicle for Santa this Christmas. Tell us what it is and give it a name. The funniest and most festive entries will win the prize. Remember, you have to live in the UK to win. The lucky winners will be announced at midday tomorrow.

In fact, the spirit of Christmas (and bourbon) is so strong that we’ll be running two competitions today, so stay tuned for a chance to win more fantastic prizes. We’ll be giving more stuff away every day from now until Christmas day, including Razer headphones, a 64GB USB drive, and a 240GB Corsair solid state drive worth £375.

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But that’s not all! Behind those covers, there’s an entire magazine of fine PC games writing. It begins with Tim meeting with Blizzard and dishing the latest details on, as you might have guessed, Diablo 3. He tells us about zombie bears, how to pimp frogs, and whether the series has really fallen into World of WarCraft’s sparkle-horse fantasy land.

We then get our dukes on Duke Nukem Forever, to find out if the hard man of gaming is still the surly beefcake we remember, or if age has rendered his pecs saggy and wrinkled. Al Bickham scrawled the answer on the walls of the PC Gamer office in poo, but we made him clean up and type it afterwards.

In what little time he wasn’t playing StarCraft 2′s multiplayer, Rich spoke to Jonathan Jacques-Belletete, lead artist on Deus Ex 3, to find out how you design a cyber-renaissance. To justify the rest of his time as “work”, he wrote about his efforts to reach StarCraft 2‘s multiplayer Gold league, in a feature we wittily called Going For Gold.

Craig flew to Lapland to discover Santa’s best toys for this year’s Christmas Gift Guide. Sadly, it does not contain last year’s best gift: baconnaise, which remains the ultimate bacon-flavoured spread.

When done smearing ourselves in foul-smelling paste, we climbed atop PC Gamer towers and gazed meaningfully towards the horizon. There we spotted Dragon Age 2, Rock of Ages, Homefront, Blight of the Immortals (from the developer of Neptune’s Pride), Cargo (from the developer of The Void and Pathologic) and Test Drive Unlimited 2, and wrote previews of each one. We also set our small army of critical mind-thinkers upon the latest games, and they spun out word-opinions on Lego Universe, Football Manager 2011, The Ball, FIFA Manager 2011 and a bunch more.

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You also get a four page feature on the very hardest difficulty mode in Obsidian’s upcoming RPG shooter Fallout: New Vegas. Will Porter writes lots of things about it, and one of them is that it “feels how its already worthy predecessor was meant to.” It’s a rough old desert in the world of Fallout, and Obsidian understand perfectly how it hard it should be to survive there.

We’re also bringing you new info in Shogun 2‘s campaign mode. We saw a battle in action, and it’s a gorgeous display of wind, water and steel that really shows off how much the Creative Assembly have worked on their Edo aesthetic. This month, we’ve reviewed Puzzle Quest 2, Front Mission Evolved, City of Heroes: Going Rogue, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Tidalis, Quake Live, Dead Rising 2, Worms Reloaded, and we didn’t not review RUSE. Maybe.

In extra-life, Rich McCormick reveals his meanest StarCraft 2 strategy ever, Jon Blyth plays Magic: The Gathering in his secret den of shame, Tom Francis enters a disturbing, parallel Far Cry 2 where nobody can speak, Tony escapes a pack of in-bred psychopaths by jumping out of a hotel window (and then plays some Dark Corners of the Earth), and I came up with a decent excuse to print a screenshot of my World of Warcraft character wearing his Scarlet set and bunny ears in theViolet Hold dungeon.

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“But,” you croak. “My computer won’t be able to run these games! It is a pitiful thing, puny and pathetic, putrid and petrified of Portal 2 and its prettiness.” Don’t worry. We’ve put together a ten-page manual that explains everything you need to know about buying and building a new PC. What should you look for in a motherboard? What happens if you bend a CPU pin? How does it all fit together, and how do you make it boot when you’re done? Our guide will take you through it all.

If you’ve already built your beastly PC gaming rig, then all you need are the games. This month we fire our explosive critic-beams (Rich’s is often particularly deadly) at some of the year’s biggest, reviewing Civilization V, StarCraft II, and Need for Speed: World.

Not content? We also spin our grand eye of gaming toward our glorious future with previews of Medal of Honour, FIFA 11, Stronghold 3, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Magicka.

PC Gamer Issue 218 is a magazine-shaped portal to gaming wonder (with a possible application as a shower curtain). It’s on sale now, both in shops and online.

Our cover story is Dragon Age 2 – flip to page 46 for eight pages of screens, interviews, and puns. The forthcoming sequel to Bioware’s 94% scoring RPG spans a decade of your character’s life, giving plenty of time for the stories of your party members to develop without having to cram it into the epilogue. The combat has also been turbocharged. There’s no more preparing to prepare to begin to prepare to attack – when you punch your most powerful skill, some punk gets an arrow in his neck yesterday.

Then, after a short ad for this very website (is your rather generous testimonial on there?), we’ve got four pages of Space Marine, Relic’s new third person shooter set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, for your eager perusal. It starts with a soul-stirring quote from the Space Marine Codex (shut up, the Codex Astartes is great) and ends with a dev from Relic laughing off the monumental challenge of squaring up to the likes of Killzone and Gears of War. Relic, like the Space Marines, know no fear. Unlike the Space Marines, their fingers are small enough to use a keyboard.

There’s plenty more where that came from. As well as our first look at Portal 2 and Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online, our Civilization 5 hands-on and new details on Elemental: War of Magic, we’ve reviewed Transformers: War for Cybertron, Flotilla, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, Sam & Max Episode 3, the new Total War DLC, Lego Harry Potter, and Tropico 3, to name a few. We bring you up to speed on the latest Red Orchestra update, teach you which ArmA 2 mods to install, and take a fond look back at Portal.

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