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“BROKEN ROADS CONTINUES THAT EVOLUTION”

The PC Gamer team

PC Gamer • #373 SEPTEMBER 2023

THE FALLOUT FALLOUT • FALLOUT’s co-creator dropping bombs about the nascent days of CRPGs

Highs & Lows

YOUR DESKTOP PAL • Tracking down JOHNNY CASTAWAY, the forefather of virtual pets

DESKTOP PET BEGINNINGS • Weird and wonderful examples of early virtual pets on the PC

FROGWARES: THE BEGINNING • The company’s first four games

WHAT’S UP HOLMES? • Frogwares founder WAËL AMR on designing puzzles for the Sherlock games

CLASSIFIED: FRANCE’44 • Wage war on Nazis in this densely layered turn-based strategy game

F1 MANAGER 2023 • Is this year’s competitor a pace-setter packed with upgrades?

EXOPRIMAL • A throwback to experimental Capcom action games

IMMORTALS OF AVEUM • Fight a magewar with first-person spell shooting

HELLSCREEN • Shooting backward to move forward in this sick FPS

MOTOGP 23 • You’ll want to pop a helmet on for this one

ROAD WARRIORS • BROKEN ROADS brings the end of the world back home

FOREBEARS • Some of the games that inspired Drop Bear Bytes

AT LEAST IT’S AN ETHOS • Forget paragon/renegade, are you a nihilist?

THE MOST APOCALYPTIC GAMES ON PC • Charting PC gaming’s radioactive history.

OUR RADIOACTIVE FUTURE • The end of the world never ends. Here are three more nuclear-minded games landing on PC soon

RADOMETER • Test your game’s radiation levels with our handy Geiger counter

TRIALS AND EVISCERATIONS • Whether they like it or not, THE OUTLAST TRIALS will test its patients

TOOLS OF THE TRIALS • Stealth isn’t your only path to survival in The Outlast Trials…

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PERFECT KO • STREET FIGHTER 6 is Capcom fighting at its finest

A NEW CHALLENGER! • Meet the fresh faces

A NEW DIMENSION • A 3D fighter-coded brain’s journey in accepting 2D

REFRIGERAIDER • Face to face with Metro City’s deadliest foe

MAGES IN REVOLT • In THE MAGESEEKER, ‘no justice’ means ‘no peace’

BEST PALS • The six friends you’ll meet in the revolution

RUINOUS POWERS • Warhammer 40K’s Chaotic Traitor Legions

ABSOLUTELY RIVETING • Retro FPS BOLTGUN is blessed by the Emperor of Man

ANATOMY OF AN ULTRAMARINE • The tools for the strongest Space Marine

SOWING OATS • A Pachan farmer’s seasonal expenses

PREHISTORIC BLISS • ROOTS OF PACHA innovates in the Stone Age without reinventing the wheel

SPACE ACTIVITIES • All the fun you can have in deep space

DEEP SPACE FINE • Get ready for pure STAR TREK magic in RESURGENCE

MEET YOUR HEROES • Here’s to the second finest crew in Starfleet

A SYSTEM SHOCK TIMELINE • How many have there been, and what’s next?

SHOCKINGLY GOOD • Nightdive’s SYSTEM SHOCK is a great but conservative remake

GETTING ATTACHED • Cyber attachments to take on SHODAN

SHINY OBJECTS • Bird is the word in tactical roguelike MAGPIE

SOLID SNAKE • The moon is...