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AUGUST 2018
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08 THE TOP STORY
Our PC Gaming Show highlights.
10 INCOMING
The month ahead in PC gaming.
12 THE SPY
The Spy is proven right! And wrong.
14 INSIDE
DEVELOPMENT
How developers build demos.
Previews
20 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
26 Metro Exodus
28 Imperator: Rome
30 Age of Wonders: Planetfall
32 Battlefield V
36 Unavowed
38 Underworld Ascendant
E3 Roundup
40 Anthem
41 Madden 19
41 MetalWolfChaos XD
41 Neo Cab
41 Forza Horizon 4
42 Tunic
42 Sable
42 Maneater
42 Sea of Solitude
43 Control
46
SERIOUS SAM 4:
PLANET BADASS
Philippa Warr heads behind the
scenes with Croteam to explore a
“brutally bigger” prequel.
32
BATTLEFIELD V
Phil Savage hitches mounted
weapons to vehicles and get s a
feel for emphasised squad play as
he tries out DICE’s sort-of
successor to Battlefield 1942.
52
IMMERSIVE
SIMS’ FUTURE
Rick L ane investigates what’s nex t
for the genre and speaks to the
devs of the nex t crop of games.
46
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