PC Gamer Digital is live on Steam!
IT’S HERE. The future of games coverage. The world of tomorrow. PC Gamer Digital has arrived!
In other words, the PC Gamer Digital app and Episode 1 are now live on Steam.
So in addition to the world’s best-selling PC games magazine and the world’s most popular PC gaming website, PC Gamer now offers a revolutionary new way to explore and experience PC games alongside the PC Gamer team as well as the entire community of PC gamers on Steam!
LAST CALL for the open beta of PC Gamer Digital! [US only - see below]
The future of games coverage has arrived, and you can be among the first to get a crack at it. Made by the same team that brings you the best-selling PC gaming magazine in the whole world, PC Gamer Digital gives you a totally new way to explore, discover, and experience PC games, and lets you share those experiences with your friends, Steam groups, and the entire PC gaming community. It’s a digital companion that’s been designed from the ground up to help you be a better gamer.
I could go on and on about it, but that’s not the point of a beta. I want you to download it, try it out, push every button, pull every slider, wander around our GameViews, rummage through our Protips, and even enjoy a nice Three-Way. Then let us know what you think at pcgdfeedback@pcgamer.com. Your comments will help us tweak the debut episode, which will hit Steam in less than a week!
I apologize that due to legal mumbo jumbo and licensing hoo-hah, beta access is restricted to the US. But yes, we absolutely intend to take PC Gamer Digital worldwide to all our fans and hardcore PC gamers everywhere!
The most advanced, innovative gaming platform in the world demands advanced, innovative coverage. The most sophisticated gamers in the world deserve sophisticated coverage and hands-on experiences. So go forth, pilgrims – discover the future of games coverage. And tell us what we can do to make it even better!
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Attention all PC gamers: the open beta of PC Gamer Digital is LIVE! [US only for now]
The future of games coverage has arrived, and you can be among the first to get a crack at it. Made by the same team that brings you the best-selling PC gaming magazine in the whole world, PC Gamer Digital gives you a totally new way to explore, discover, and experience PC games, and lets you share those experiences with your friends, Steam groups, and the entire PC gaming community. It’s a digital companion that’s been designed from the ground up to help you be a better gamer.
We could go on and on about it, but that’s not the point of a beta. We want you to download it, try it out, push every button, pull every slider, wander around our GameViews, rummage through our Protips, and even enjoy a nice Three-Way. Then let us know what you think at pcgdfeedback@pcgamer.com. Your comments will help us tweak the debut episode, which will hit Steam in less than a fortnight.
The most advanced, innovative gaming platform in the world demands advanced, innovative coverage. The most sophisticated gamers in the world deserve sophisticated coverage and hands-on experiences. So go forth, pilgrims – discover the future of games coverage. And tell us what we can do to make it even better!
Ooooo, pretty!
Go on the offense with our Anomaly: Warzone Earth contest! [Giveaway]
ALIEN SQUATTERS HAVE COME FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS
OK, they’re not really after your daughters. Not yet. But who knows? Put it this way: a bunch of extraterrestrials land in Baghdad and start setting up a defensive perimeter — that’s not a good sign. If you enter the defensive perimeter, they try to shoot you. And if they’ll do that, then who knows what else they’ll do?
Well, no sense waiting for the worst to happen. You need to get in there and take care of some alien business. That’s the magic of Anomaly: Warzone Earth: it turns ye olde tower defense scenario inside out by pitting you and your team against the ramparts of stationary alien turrents. It’s explosive, hectic, and gorgeous. And we’re giving away 50 codes so that you can go in there and start mopping up extraterrestrial undesirables just as you were destined to do. Read on to find out how to enter, and take back the Earth one tower at a time.
Exclusive Portal 2 BLC!
That’s bakeable, luscious content—available exclusively from PC Gamer!
When PC Gamer first chatted with GLaDOS voice actress Ellen McLain after the release of the original Portal, our conversation with the affable, multi-talented award-winner naturally turned to baked goods. As a native Southerner, McLain is naturally fond of Red Velvet Cake. But when she goes into the kitchen, what comes out is a plate of delicious, toasty, aromatic Pecan Tassies.
Now PC Gamer is proud to present the very first Portal 2 BLC: Ellen McLain’s own recipe for Pecan Tassies. We recommend baking four batches over the weekend and enjoying them in frequent breaks between co-op missions.
Alice: Madness Returns review
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a novel in which anything might happen. Alice: Madness Returns is a sumptuous but mechanically simple third-person action game in which just about everything does.
Reinstall: American McGee’s Alice
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has spent the past 150 years casually batting aside just about every attempt to reshape its capricious, meandering story into a logical narrative. Tim Burton gave it a crack last year with Alice in Wonderland, tossing 19-year-old Alice back into the phantasmagorical fantasies of her childhood to ditch the hoop skirts, confront the Red Queen, and transition to spirited, headstrong womanhood while name-checking Carroll’s cast along the way. The result was charmless and distasteful. So what a coup it might have been if EA had re-released American McGee’s Alice at the same time, and showed how a young PC game developer had taken a suspiciously similar approach ten years earlier—and made it work.
EA bundling American McGee’s Alice with the PC version of Alice: Madness Returns exclusively through North American EA Store
Imagine piling your family into the station wagon and taking them to see the magnificent Grand Canyon, only to find that there’s no actual canyon there anymore, just a few rocks and a small kiosk manned by an elderly gentleman reading a paperback book. You ask him where the Grand Canyon is, and he squints at you and replies, “the what?”
That’s what it’s been like for fans of American McGee’s Alice, originally released to effusive praise in 2000. We played it, we dug it, we lent it to our friends, and we never saw our discs again. But unlike other classics from the era, Alice never showed up in digital stores or GOG.com. Even used copies start at around $50 on eBay. “Why, EA?” we lamented, “why won’t you re-release this beloved PC classic?”
And EA not only heard our lamentations, but went above and beyond by including the original American McGee’s Alice with Alice: Madness Returns in a bundle called Alice: Madness Returns – The Complete Collection, available exclusively through EA Store in North America.
The 100 game giveaway! (US only)
Observe, if you will, our Facebook page. As of this writing, we count 92,271 intrepid souls among our fans–a number that grows, inexorably, with every passing day. Our forces grow stronger even as I write this, and when we top 100,000 fans, our army shall be unstoppable.
In order to hasten the advancement of our forces and to reward the courageous and forward-thinking fans who have made us the number one source of news in the whole world devoted exclusively to the great wonder that is PC gaming, I, Logan Decker, decree that we shall give away 100 games this week. That’s 20 per day, in a different genre each day, every day of the week through Friday.
Logan Decker
Logan Decker is the Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer (US Edition). Raised in Sunnyvale, California, only miles away from what is today the headquarters of Apple, his parents sacrificed to buy him an expensive Apple II+ computer with the understanding that computers were the future, and that those who mastered them would become fabulously wealthy and admired the world over. They were, of course, prescient, but their visions sadly did not apply to their son, who could have cared less about programming and instead spent his youth conquering Britannia in his pajamas.
Logan did, eventually, go on to get a real job as a nerd-in-residence at Maximum PC, and joined PC Gamer as Senior Editor in 2006, wherein “Senior” meant “hardware guy.” The people upstairs must have seen some editorial talent in Mr. Decker, as he was surely not promoted to Editor-in-Chief on the basis of his aim, strategic thinking in StarCraft, or cool in the face of zombie attack.
When Logan is not playing Tornado Jockey, violent shooters or Mass Effect 2 for the umpteenth time in a desperate bid to not kill everybody, he tweets, plays the keytar, and hangs out with his friends Lexington and Tabasco.
Welcome to The Vault!
Welcome to The Vault! Check out all the choice selections of prime PC cut below:
