PC Gamer Issue 231

This magazine was dated October 2011 and priced at £5.99.

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Diablo III lets you pay to win. (1½ pages)
 * Blizzard's upcoming action-RPG will offer players a real-money auction house.

Rewiring our brains. (1 page)
 * Forget the tabloid headlines. PC Games are actually good for you.

Hard Reset wants to reboot the shooter. (½ page)
 * Fresh Cyberpunk first-person shooter from Poland's new developer all-stars.

Should all games have a long beta period? - (1 page)
 * Tim Edwards and Rich McCormick Face Off

Make your own Mincrafts
 * How 3D printing will let us hold our games.

Special Report: Night of the living devs. Owen Hill - (2 pages)
 * Pirate attacks, exploding car bombs and digital knights in shining armour - the story behind Project Zomboid's tormented development.

Previews
Rage - Rich McCormick - (2 pages)

Might & Magic: Heroes VI - Tom Senior - (1 page)

Payday: The Heist - Kim Richards - (2 pages)

Torchlight II - Duncan Geere - (2 pages)

Features
Clash of the MMO Titans
 * When a new wave of MMOs fight. It's gamers who declare the winner.
 * Guild Wars 2 - Rich McCormick - (4 pages)
 * Wildstar - Tom Francis - (4 pages)
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic - Tim Edwards - (4 pages)
 * The Secret World - Rich McCormick - (4 pages)

Devil's Advocate - Tom Francis - (6 pages)
 * Diablo III will let us buy and sell items for real money. But it's also changing how we level up - for the better.

The Hard Stuff
Laptop graphics step up a level - (1½ pages)
 * AMD and Nvidia have both launched new high-end mobile GPUs that raise the bar for laptop gaming.

AMD's new Fusion chips take on Intel - (1 page)
 * AMD's long-awaited hybrid CPU/GPU is here and there are more to come.

Buyer's Advice: SSD Storage - Adam Oxford - (5 pages)

Extra Life
Seeing yourself through other people's eyes in League of Legends - Rich McCormick - (1⅓ pages)

Existentialism and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction - Craig Pearson - (⅔ page)

Graham blasts off with little green men in Kerbal Space Program Graham Smith - (1 page)

Out on a limb in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - Tom Hatfield - (½ page)

Tim has a dark Empires and Allies secret - Tim Edwards - (½ page)

Update: Eve-Bay - (2 pages)
 * Tom Senior dons a monacle and peers into EVE Online's Incarna update

How to... Become the perfect man-machine hybrid - (2 pages)
 * Tom Francis's guide to augs in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Reinstall - Sid Meier's SimGolf - Graham Smith - (2 pages)

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Age of Empires Online - Microsoft - PC

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Other Credits
Deputy Editor
 * Graham Smith

Production Editor
 * Tony Ellis

Section Editor
 * Tom Francis

News Editor
 * Craig Pearson

Web Editor
 * Owen Hill

Art Editor
 * Alvin Weetman

Deputy Art Editor
 * Cliff Newman

Staff Writer
 * Rich McCormick

Interns
 * Tom Senior, Tom Hatfield

Contributors
 * Tim Stone, Adam Oxford, Richard Cobbett, Kim Richards, Duncan Geere, Steve Hogarty, Dan Stapleton, Jon Blyth, Andy Ounsted, John McAllister