Issue July 2015 - PC Gamer (US Edition) (2024)

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IN THIS ISSUEChanging PC at E3For the past few years on PCGamer.com, in the days before the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, we’ve published a joke article imagining “The E3 Press Conference PC Gamers Deserve.” It’s mostly been an excuse for us to daydream and write things like “...and then, through a fog of theater-grade dry ice, Gabe Newell materialized atop a unicorn to announce Half-Life 3.”E3, despite being a mostly exciting few days of announcements, has never given PC gaming an equal place at the table. We get valuable stories and interviews out of E3, but generally speaking it’s the time of year when Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo jostle for position about who can create the most buzz.We got tired of that.For the past several months, we’ve been working hard to organize the first…1 min

IN THIS ISSUETHE HOT MAILZeroes comes to mindI’d really like to see game reviews that also feature low- or mid-range rigs. There are a lot of us playing on older hardware who can’t pay, or who don’t want to pay, for high-end cards, CPUs and plenty of RAM, but it’s hard to judge what the performance of a game will be on the low end before you buy it. I’ve found the minimum given specs aren’t always accurate and they tend not to detail what kind of resolution, settings, or FPS you’d get playing with the bare minimum. I’d have pre-ordered GTA V if I knew I could get even 30fps on low settings at 1080p, but I’m just waiting for someone with similar hardware to post online about their experience.It would be great…2 min

IN THIS ISSUESENDCLICKpcgamer.comLIKEfacebook.com /pcgamermagazineSHOOTsteamcommunity.com /groups/pcgamerWATCHyoutube.com /pcgamerFOLLOW@pcgamerSENDPC GamerFutureUS4000 Shoreline Ct. Suite 400South San Francisco, CA 94080Milk us for moreRiot Games recently announced that it’ll be doing Chroma packs for skins, which is pretty awesome. The kicker? It looks like Chroma packs will cost a cool $5. Now, $5 isn’t an absurd price, but according to modders in the community, changing the colors of a skin takes almost no time at all. Riot has justified the price of the color change by saying it pays for the labor. This is, of course, untrue according to the modders, as the labor is extremely minimal, meaning that Riot is overcharging us for some simple color changes.I’m getting tired of companies trying to milk us for more money than products are actually worth. Brandon OgonIt’s an interesting…1 min

IN THIS ISSUEHOT TOPICCould Halo still be relevant on PC?If they had released Halo 3 to PC with mod support it would be one of the best FPSes on PC and it would sell millions!Joakim TorkveenI wouldn’t say no to the remastered games on PC, even if they were capped at 60fps. At least we’d have them.Russell CopelandOf course. Halo is still a solid franchise. Is it for everyone? No. No game is. After playing the beta, I was pretty happy with the direction it’s going in. I also enjoyed Halo 4’s campaign and the multi worked flawlessly for me, so I have faith in 343. Damn shame MS is too stupid when it comes to this though. If it ported the remaining Halo games over it would make good bank, contrary to…3 min

MONITORDeus Ex returnsThe next game in the Deus Ex series is Mankind Divided and will again star Adam Jensen. Developer Eidos Montreal is promising new augmentations, new locations and a “cloak of conspiracies.”It’s being built in a new engine called Dawn and the PC version will take advantage of DirectX 12 and the most recent version of AMD’s ridiculous TressFX hair tech. Jensen’s pointy beard is going to look amazing.New locations include Utulek Station, a ghetto in Prague for augmented citizens. We may also get to visit Montreal, famously cut from Human Revolution, and Paris, a key location in the first game. Fingers crossed for bigger city hubs this time around.The events of DX:HR were only loosely connected to the first game, but the sequel will have more explicit links to JC…2 min

MONITORTHE SPYIt’s a point of pride for The Spy that he finds two sources for everything. Not just information: food, water, even friendship and personal values. There’s no better way to confuse a would-be hitman than to live two contradictory lives, arbitrarily flipping between them on a whim. This protective reflex either makes The Spy uniquely suited or uniquely unsuited for political office; appropriately, he has never been able to choose.It’s with a certain amount of trepidation, then, that The Spy presents leaked Mass Effect 4 details so unverified, so reliant on a single source, that they might well be total nonsense. They don’t sound like nonsense, however. The rumor goes that the new game will be set in the future of the Mass Effect universe, as humanity sets out to…3 min

Issue July 2015 - PC Gamer (US Edition) (2024)

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