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PC Gamer UK October issue – Portal 2

Graham Smith | Magazine, UK Subscriptions | 01/09/2010 11:55am
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PC Gamer 218 has already emerged through the letterbox-shaped portals in our subscribers’ doors. You can now buy it via the newsagent-shaped portals in your town or city. Do you see the rhythm I’m building here? This month we sent Tom to Valve in a plane-shaped portal, and he came back not just with the first information on Portal 2’s brand new co-op, but interviews with Gabe Newell about Valve’s follies, future and Left 4 Dead’s fairy origins. Oh my.

What’s in the Civilization 5 boxed set?

Jaz McDougall | News | 12/07/2010 18:34pm
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We love boxed sets at PC Gamer, especially the kind with little metal figures, art books, and soundtrack CDs. Oh, and the game. Guess what the Civilization 5 Special Edition boxed set contains?

Play your Civ 4 maps in Civ 5

Jaz McDougall | News | 26/06/2010 12:49pm
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You know what was cool about Left 4 Dead 2? You could play Left 4 Dead maps with it (you could also play it while still boycotting it, which was convenient). Turns out, that’s also what’s cool about Civilization 5 – all those maps of Faerun you were working on will import right into Firaxis’ upcoming turn based megalomania sim.

New Civilization 5 screenshots and E3 impressions

Tim Edwards | E3, News, Screenshots | 15/06/2010 22:56pm
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Firaxis just demo’d Civilization V to us, showing off some of the new features that make this a break from the previous games. The first: new win conditions that emphasise Social Policy and Government over war and diplomacy.