PC Gamer Magazine's 30th Anniversary Collector's Special Issue Is On Sale Now

PC Gamer magazine 30th anniversary special
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This month PC Gamer celebrates its landmark 30th anniversary issue. For three whole decades PC Gamer has been there reporting on the PC gaming industry's biggest games, names and events, as well as its wider culture, and in this very special issue of the magazine we celebrate that heritage, both looking back on 30 years of PC gaming, but also 30 years of PC Gamer magazine.

PC Gamer magazine 30th anniversary issue

This special collector's issue comes with a bonus 32-page mini-mag supplement that celebrates 30 years of PC gaming. (Image credit: Future)

Many former editors, writers, designers and more return to reminisce about their time on the magazine as well as their experiences in the industry. In addition, this issue comes with an exclusive 32-page bonus mini-mag and A4 poster featuring three of PC gaming's most notable hero characters. This truly is an issue of PC Gamer magazine not to miss!

PC Gamer magazine 30th anniversary issue

We celebrate 30 years of PC Gamer magazine this issue, too, with more than 15 former editors and writers returning to reminisce about their time making the mag. (Image credit: Future)

And just because we're looking back over 30 years of PC gaming doesn't mean this issue doesn't also deliver the latest previews, reviews, hardware, opinion, and more. Indeed, our 30th anniversary special magazine is one of the most awesome, content-stuffed issues we've ever made.

PC Gamer magazine 30th anniversary issue

Journey back through the history of the best gaming mag in the world. (Image credit: Future)

In terms of cover feature, this month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to Nightdive Studio's brand new Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster, with the studio upgrading the classic FPS for release 30 years after the original debuted in the mid-1990s. We hear from the developers making the game and find out just what PC gamers can expect when this highly anticipated shooter drops next year. 

PC Gamer magazine 30th anniversary issue

This month we chat with GOG about the future of the platform and DRM-free gaming. (Image credit: Future)

And, talking of remastering classic PC games, this special issue of PC Gamer also includes an exclusive roundtable interview with Warren Spector and Paul Neurath, the legendary game developers behind seminal immersive sim System Shock.

PC Gamer magazine's 30th anniversary issue

This special issue come with a bonus exclusive A4 poster, too, featuring three of PC gaming's best heroes. (Image credit: Future)

This issue also comes loaded with previews for some of the most exciting games currently incoming in PC gaming's future, with authoritative write-ups of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Eve Vanguard, Capes, Dragon's Dogma 2, Last Train Home and Thank Goodness You're Here!.

PC Gamer magazine 30th anniversary issue

This issue is stuffed with top previews. (Image credit: Future)

While the PC Gamer reviews machine drops the definitive verdicts on Assassin's Creed: Mirage, Dune: Spice Wars, Wargroove 2, The Lamplighters League, Forza Motorsport, Total War: Pharaoh, Mineko's Night Market, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, among other games.

PC Gamer magazine 30th anniversary issue

We've got a very special group test this month, looking back on the greatest graphics cards of the past 30 years. (Image credit: Future)

All that plus a special group test looking back at the best graphics cards of the last 30 years, a reinstall of cult classic real-time tactics game, Syndicate, the latest dramatic installment of a highly amusing bard's tale in our Baldur's Gate III diary, a special report on Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 with an exclusive interview directly with CD Projekt Red, an appreciation feature focussed on Fallout 3's best quest, Tranquility Lane, a comprehensive guide to the best Starfield mods available right now, a secret level interview discussing the art of creating music for video games, a special time-traveling dispatch from The Spy, and much more too.

Here's to 30 more years of PC gaming!

Issue 390 is on shelves now and available on all your digital devices from the App Store and Zinio. You can also order directly from Magazines Direct or purchase a subscription to save yourself some cash, receive monthly deliveries, and get incredibly stylish subscriber-only covers.

Enjoy the issue!

Pick up a copy of PC Gamer magazine's special 30th anniversary issue today. (Image credit: Future)

PC Gamer magazine 30th anniversary issue

The best gaming magazine in the world. (Image credit: Future)
Print Editor

Rob is editor of PC Gamer magazine and has been PC gaming since the early 1990s, an experience that has left him with a life-long passion for first person shooters, isometric RPGs and point and click adventures. Professionally Rob has written about games, gaming hardware and consumer technology for almost twenty years, and before joining the PC Gamer team was deputy editor of T3.com, where he oversaw the website's gaming and tech content as well its news and ecommerce teams. You can also find Rob's words in a series of other gaming magazines and books such as Future Publishing's own Retro Gamer magazine and numerous titles from Bitmap Books. In addition, he is the author of Super Red Green Blue, a semi-autobiographical novel about games and gaming culture. Recreationally, Rob loves motorbikes, skiing and snowboarding, as well as team sports such as football and cricket.