Don't miss the October issue of PC PowerPlay

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It’s been getting bigger and better for a decade now, and the wildly popular combat game War Thunder has now entered the modern age with the release of a set of 4th gen vehicles that will energise top tier combat.

Our expert in this issue is War Thunder streamer Nick ‘MagzTV’ Read, and Nick has analysed the new vehicles, which includes the mighty ‘Top Gun’ F-14 Tomcat.

Elsewhere in this issue of PC PowerPlay we get hands-on with Homeworld 3 – something that will stir fond memories of old, and hope that it will actually be good.

We’ve a guide to the best joysticks and flight controllers, too, and every gamer needs a decent stick in their armoury, even id flight isn’t their main thing.

Ben thinks he’s probably the most experienced PC gaming editor and writer in Australia. After working on the legendary Hyper magazine in the early 1990s, he founded the even-more-legendary PC PowerPlay mag in 1995, and remained as editor for the first five years during that period of explosive PC gaming evolution. After that he founded Atomic magazine in 2000, shifting his focus a bit more towards PC gaming hardware. After a few years as Atomic editor, Ben took over PC Authority magazine, and is now the editor of APC. He likes 48-hour Sins of a Solar Empire binges when he’s not sitting in his sim racing rig manhandling his precious German equipment.