The world’s premier PC gaming magazine, PC Gamer UKhas been revamped, redesigned and relaunched – the firstfull rebootsince 1993 – to reflect the changing face of PC gaming.

We asked Ross Atherton, editor of the mag to tell us what’s new…

“In a world full of delicious websites such as, I dunno, GamesRadar for example, why would people spend cash on games magazines?,” Atherton asks (while simultaneously andunexpectedlymassaging our ego).

“That question is at the heart of the changes we’ve made to PC Gamer UK. In a nutshell, we’ve made it better. Better articles, better design, better cock jokes. Most importantly, we’ve got stuff you just can’t get on the web: in-depth articles unique to PC Gamer.”

We’ve seen the new magazine and it’s as brilliant as Ross says. If you need further convincing as to why you should buy it today, PC Gamer UK has produced a launch video that puts their new focus across with more acumen than us babbling on about what an astonishing job they’ve done.

Key games featured in the new issue:
Starcraft II
Aliens Vs Predator
ARMA 2
The Secret World
Champions Online
Wolfenstein

Plus
- How to use cutting-edge mobile broadband to play PC games anywhere
– The latest on hit MMOs World of Warcraft and Eve Online
– Reviews of Demigod, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor and Braid

Subscribe to PC Gamer UK magazine here

PC GamerUKmagazineis published by Future Publishing, and is part of the GamesRadar network.

It’s been a while since the UK had a proper, full-blown, full-fatgaming show. The London Games Festival has been doing a pretty good job over the last couple of years of course, but we haven’t really seen a big, shiney, focused extravaganza of digital excess since the days ofGame StarsLive. And that was a long time ago.

That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

Nintendo? At a hardcore-focused gaming event? Potentially exciting, no? WithGame On!happening on the 20th and 21st of June – mere days after E3 – eyebrows must surely twitch at the possibility of some proper games in Ninty’s line-up this year.

Interested? Provided you still have a working pulse and fully-operating higher brain functions, of course you are. So head tothis website right here, get your ticket for a mere 8, and begin preparing your transportation to London’s Olympia immediately. Sounds like this is one you really don’t want to miss.

The 27th AnnualGolden Joystick Awardsis alive! From today you can vote for your favourite games of the past year in the official awards long list and help us break records all over again.

If you remember rightly (and we do) 2008 was a recording breaking year for the Golden Joysticks. The final votes total stood at an amazing 856,262, the big winner of which was (deservedly) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare with four Awards.

Above:Girls loveGolden Joysticks. Fact

In 2009 we’re hoping to achieve even bigger numbers – but we can only do it with your help.

Killzone 2, Left 4 Dead, Empire: Total War and Gears of War 2 are among the biggest releases eligible for the awards this year, and the only way you can make sure your favourite is in the running for a gong is by voting on the Golden Joysticks website.

Above: Not sure what they won. Probably nothing

But if you’re just in it for the prizes there are, of course, many up for grabs – every 100,000th vote will win a big value freebie!

Go on then, head over to theGolden Joysticks websiteand cast your votes.

Story courtesy ofCVG

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

This year that all changes with the HMV sponsored Game On! London. The event is being run by the UKeSA, a nascent organisation tasked with developing and growing professional and grass-roots competitive gaming.

Hosting 25,000 attendees, Game On! London will be held in the Olympia Exhibition Center between 20th and 21st June 2009 and will give gamers the chance to play early versions of unreleased games and spectate at the Dell XPS Premiership Season One Finals – comprised of UK eSport’s most elite gaming teams.

The GamesRadar network will be representing at the show and we’ll let you know as soon as tickets become available and how much it’s going to cost to get in. Plus keep an eye out for ticket giveaways to our most loyal readers near the time.

Meanwhile, If you fancy taking part in the season two UKeSA leagues you can sign up atwww.enemydown.eu/content/ukesa2

Apr 2, 2009

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

This year that all changes with the HMV sponsored Game On! London. The event is being run by the UKeSA, a nascent organisation tasked with developing and growing professional and grass-roots competitive gaming.

Hosting 25,000 attendees, Game On! London will be held in the Olympia Exhibition Center between 20th and 21st June 2009 and will give gamers the chance to play early versions of unreleased games and spectate at the Dell XPS Premiership Season One Finals – comprised of UK eSport’s most elite gaming teams.

The GamesRadar network will be representing at the show and we’ll let you know as soon as tickets become available and how much it’s going to cost to get in. Plus keep an eye out for ticket giveaways to our most loyal readers near the time.

Meanwhile, If you fancy taking part in the season two UKeSA leagues you can sign up atwww.enemydown.eu/content/ukesa2

Apr 2, 2009

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

This year that all changes with the HMV sponsored Game On! London. The event is being run by the UKeSA, a nascent organisation tasked with developing and growing professional and grass-roots competitive gaming.

Hosting 25,000 attendees, Game On! London will be held in the Olympia Exhibition Center between 20th and 21st June 2009 and will give gamers the chance to play early versions of unreleased games and spectate at the Dell XPS Premiership Season One Finals – comprised of UK eSport’s most elite gaming teams.

The GamesRadar network will be representing at the show and we’ll let you know as soon as tickets become available and how much it’s going to cost to get in. Plus keep an eye out for ticket giveaways to our most loyal readers near the time.

Meanwhile, If you fancy taking part in the season two UKeSA leagues you can sign up atwww.enemydown.eu/content/ukesa2

Apr 2, 2009

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

This year that all changes with the HMV sponsored Game On! London. The event is being run by the UKeSA, a nascent organisation tasked with developing and growing professional and grass-roots competitive gaming.

Hosting 25,000 attendees, Game On! London will be held in the Olympia Exhibition Center between 20th and 21st June 2009 and will give gamers the chance to play early versions of unreleased games and spectate at the Dell XPS Premiership Season One Finals – comprised of UK eSport’s most elite gaming teams.

The GamesRadar network will be representing at the show and we’ll let you know as soon as tickets become available and how much it’s going to cost to get in. Plus keep an eye out for ticket giveaways to our most loyal readers near the time.

Meanwhile, If you fancy taking part in the season two UKeSA leagues you can sign up atwww.enemydown.eu/content/ukesa2

Apr 2, 2009

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

This year that all changes with the HMV sponsored Game On! London. The event is being run by the UKeSA, a nascent organisation tasked with developing and growing professional and grass-roots competitive gaming.

Hosting 25,000 attendees, Game On! London will be held in the Olympia Exhibition Center between 20th and 21st June 2009 and will give gamers the chance to play early versions of unreleased games and spectate at the Dell XPS Premiership Season One Finals – comprised of UK eSport’s most elite gaming teams.

The GamesRadar network will be representing at the show and we’ll let you know as soon as tickets become available and how much it’s going to cost to get in. Plus keep an eye out for ticket giveaways to our most loyal readers near the time.

Meanwhile, If you fancy taking part in the season two UKeSA leagues you can sign up atwww.enemydown.eu/content/ukesa2

Apr 2, 2009

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

This year that all changes with the HMV sponsored Game On! London. The event is being run by the UKeSA, a nascent organisation tasked with developing and growing professional and grass-roots competitive gaming.

Hosting 25,000 attendees, Game On! London will be held in the Olympia Exhibition Center between 20th and 21st June 2009 and will give gamers the chance to play early versions of unreleased games and spectate at the Dell XPS Premiership Season One Finals – comprised of UK eSport’s most elite gaming teams.

The GamesRadar network will be representing at the show and we’ll let you know as soon as tickets become available and how much it’s going to cost to get in. Plus keep an eye out for ticket giveaways to our most loyal readers near the time.

Meanwhile, If you fancy taking part in the season two UKeSA leagues you can sign up atwww.enemydown.eu/content/ukesa2

Apr 2, 2009

Abe Lincoln. Charles Darwin. Edge. Between them they’ve mastered the realms of politics, science and writing about overweight Italian plumbers. And, more importantly than any of that, they’re now all 200. Yep, the long-running and respected games mag has just reached its 200th issue, celebrating the landmark event by publishing 200 unique covers.

So if you’re mad for Master Chief, delirious over Deus Ex or want to dip into the man-mashing nostalgia of Streets of Rage; Edge has you covered with their vast array of covers celebrating nearly 20 years of videogame culture. It’s subscribers who get the best deal, though, as they’ll be sent a special cover co-designed by the mag and LittleBigPlanet makers Media Molecule. Below we’ve included all 200 in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 20 second video.

After you finish messing your pants over the fanboy-pleasing art on the front, the mag has put together loads of great features to celebrate their advanced years in style. To kick things off there’s a feature looking at the 100 best games to play today. An exhaustive look at the history of Sony’s market-changing PlayStation. And even an interview with the much forgotten co-founder of Atari, Ted Dabney, who gives his side of the story for the first time in 35 years.

The issue goes on sale Thursday 12th of March for the paltry sum of 4.50. Try not to fatally stab anyone when you get into fights for the Goldeneye cover.