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

PC Gamer issue 365 cover and spreads.
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Christmas is coming, the goose is accepting fat, amuse put a penny in PC Gamer magazine's hat: For then, acceptable boys and girls, ye shall accept the ultimate blithe gift. Yes, it's an all-embracing burrow into the ablaze wilderness of STALKER 2 with all the capacity you appetite about the bigger, bolder, and added alarming open-world sequel. Plus: Bold of the Year awards, COD vs Battlefield, and more!

STALKER is assuredly returning, and this long-awaited aftereffect hopes to reinvent it: With a abounding accessible apple and a sprawling, non-linear story. The Area is bigger and bolder than anytime before—and added dangerous, too, with new anomalies, mutants, and factions to discover. You’ll acquisition aggregate you charge to apperceive in our all-access awning feature, including interviews with the developer. Oh, and you’ll acquisition out why deer aren’t as controllable as they seem…

PC Gamer issue 365 cover and spreads.

(Image credit: Future)

It’s additionally time for our anniversary Bold of the Year awards. Afterwards abundant agitation and deliberation, we’ve bent the best releases of 2021—from our favourite RPG, to the year’s best fun address game, to, of course, the ultimate best bold of the year. The after-effects ability abruptness you…

All that, additional we’ve gone behind-the-scenes of the huge new Warframe update; advised Alarm of Assignment Beat and Battlefield 2042 to see which ballista rules the roost this year; apparent a accomplished new Half-Life adventure with the Basin full-conversion mod; gone hands-on with cowboy immersive sim Awe-inspiring West; and abundant more.

And the book copy alike comes with two blithe ability – a Warframe DLC array account £20, and a chargeless 2022 agenda assuming off some of the better accessible games.

Issue 365 is out appropriate now on abundance shelves and on your agenda accessories from the App Store and Zinio. You can additionally adjustment anon from Magazines Direct or nab a subscription so you can save yourself a few quid (and get a £10 e-gift agenda in the bargain). Issues get delivered beeline to your aperture and appear with a admirable subscriber-exclusive cover.

PC Gamer issue 365 cover and spreads.

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Rich Stanton

Rich is a amateur announcer with 15 years' experience, alpha his career on Bend annual afore alive for a advanced ambit 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 afore abutting PC Gamer. He is the columnist of a Abrupt History of Video Games, a abounding history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Analysis declared as "[a] must-read for austere absent bold historians and analytical video bold connoisseurs alike."