PC Gamer Issue 10

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Features:

• Cover Feature: Aliens! - This month, we take a look at the development of Aliens, the latest graphic tour de force from Mindscape and Cryo -- the design house behind titles like Dragon Lore and Lost Eden. It's a dark and deadly graphic adventure, based on the art and storylines from the wonderfully disturbing graphic novels of Dark Horse Comics. One of the year's best-looking titles!
• The First Annual PC Gamer Awards - The editors of PC Gamer put their heads together and picked the very best computer games of the year. Will 'Game of the Year' go to TIE Fighter or X-COM? You'll have to turn to our Awards Feature to find out....
• Through the Looking Glass - After developing some really smoking games for Origin -- like Ultima Underworld I and II, and their latest, System Shock -- Looking Glass Technologies is heading out on their own. We sent Bernie Yee to check out the new titles LG hopes will make them the next game-publishing giant.

Scoops!:

• Powerhouse
• X-COM: Terror from the Deep
• Conqueror

Reviews:

• Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
• Creature Shock
• Cyclones
• Dawn Patrol
• ESPN: Baseball Tonight
• Flight Commander 2
• Hammer of the Gods
• Hardball 4
• Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
• Ishar 3
• King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
• The Lemmings Chronicles
• Metaltech: EarthSiege
• Microsoft Space Simulator
• Sky Realms of Jorune: Alien Logic
• Transport Tycoon
• Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
• Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger
• Zephyr 

Departments:

• Eyewitness: News, Game Previews, Best-sellers, and more!
• The Learning Game: Heidi Aycock wonders if digital colouring books will replace the real thing, or if you're better off just buying a box of crayons for your kid.
• Extended Play: T. Liam McDonald flies for both sides with his look at the new expansion pack for TIE Fighter and the enhanced CD-ROM edition of X-Wing.
• Alternate Lives: Neil Randall is convinced the future of computer RPGs is now in the hands of the internet.
• Lupine Online: Scott Wolf has found a few shareware titles he thinks you should be aware of.
• Sim Column: Lee Buchanan's convinced that the upcoming Falcon 4.0 will be the combat flight sim of every joystick jockey's dreams.
• Back Issues: So, you want to buy zem all, eh...?
• The Desktop General: The Norwegians are giving William R. Trotter fits in his Panzer General campaign!
• Tim's Tech Shop: So, you heard about the new Pentium chip's floating-point bug, and you were worried it's crippling your ability to play your favorite game? Don't worry, Tim Victor can set your mind at ease: it's not the bug's fault, you just suck at the game.
• Peripheral Visions: Matt Firme test-fires several controller alternatives to the basic mouse.
• Strategy Central: Because getting stuck sucks, this month's column focuses on how to get you un-stuck from Metaltech, NovaStorm, and Noctropolis.
• Letters: A special fellowship, where gamers and their families can talk through those tough issues.
• Contest: Blizzard would like you to flex your game design skills and tell them what you'd like to see in their upcoming real-time strategy game Warcraft. In exchange, they'll fly two of you out to California for three days of debauchery at the 1995 Electronic Entertainment Expo (aka: E3).
• Next Issue: Thirty days from now, this is what you'll be reading.

Ads (in order of appearance):

• Dungeon Master II

Notable Stuff:

• This issue marks Neil Randall's last as a regular contributing editor, and he leaves PC Gamer to focus on his book-writing career and his work for the.net magazine.