PC Gamer UK January issue: It's STALKER 2 time, baby!

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Plus: Game of the Year awards, COD vs Battlefield, and more!

PC Gamer issue 365 cover and spreads.
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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, please put a penny in PC Gamer magazine's hat: For then, good boys and girls, ye shall receive the ultimate festive gift. Yes, it's an in-depth delve into the irradiated wilderness of STALKER 2 with all the details you want about the bigger, bolder, and more dangerous open-world sequel. Plus: Game of the Year awards, COD vs Battlefield, and more!

STALKER is finally returning, and this long-awaited sequel hopes to reinvent it: With a full open world and a sprawling, non-linear story. The Zone is bigger and bolder than ever before—and more dangerous, too, with new anomalies, mutants, and factions to discover. You’ll find everything you need to know in our all-access cover feature, including interviews with the developer. Oh, and you’ll find out why deer aren’t as harmless as they seem…

PC Gamer issue 365 cover and spreads.

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It’s also time for our annual Game of the Year awards. After much debate and deliberation, we’ve determined the best releases of 2021—from our favourite RPG, to the year’s most fun co-op game, to, of course, the ultimate best game of the year. The results might surprise you…

All that, plus we’ve gone behind-the-scenes of the huge new Warframe update; reviewed Call of Duty Vanguard and Battlefield 2042 to see which shooter rules the roost this year; discovered a whole new Half-Life story with the Delta full-conversion mod; gone hands-on with cowboy immersive sim Weird West; and much more.

And the print edition even comes with two festive gifts – a Warframe DLC bundle worth £20, and a free 2022 calendar showing off some of the biggest upcoming games.

Issue 365 is out right now on store shelves and on your digital devices from the App Store and Zinio. You can also order directly from Magazines Direct or nab a subscription so you can save yourself a few quid (and get a £10 e-gift card in the bargain). Issues get delivered straight to your door and come with a lovely subscriber-exclusive cover.

PC Gamer issue 365 cover and spreads.

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Rich Stanton
Rich Stanton
Senior Editor

Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."