PCPP comes but 13 times a year and 12th December 2007 is one of those times. PCPP#147 will hit newsstands for your reading pleasure. Let's take a look inside!

We look at a huge pile of games that have one thing in common: they're powered by the Unreal 3 engine. We review UT3, Gears of War and Blacksite: Area 51, and preview 12 other games as well as remember our Unreal-powered favourites. We also chat with Epic's Mark Rein to find out more about this remarkable technology.

It's where it's meant to be: on PC. Our massive review dissects this impressive new wargame but here's a spoiler: moving the series away from WW2 does nothing to hurt it. Read on!

It's uni intake time folks, so in celebration of this we've put together a neat article on what makes a modern studio tick. We profile the main departments and speak to two newcomers to the industry. And we follow up the article with all the info you need for Australia's best games courses. One for the school-leavers and the curious!

We always hoped it would be good, but let's just say we were surprised how good it turned out to be! We take a long hard look at this RPG surprise.

You wanted it, you got it. All the info we could dredge up on Spore. It's still sketchy, but should keep you going into the new year when the screens and hands-on code should flow. Revelations inside!

Our most detailed examination of a new videocard ever, and why not? It's arguably the most important card in three generations. We bench six of the best, and detail all the technological changes that make this card so great.

We heard 8800GTs were hard to come by on the street at the moment, so we snaffled two of them and an 680i LT SLI motherboard for one lucky subscriber. They'll also nab themselves a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Edition, some Fatal1ty headphones, and a collector's edition of Unreal Tournament 3. Best 8800GT-based subs prize ever!

Not a bad lineup this issue, if we do say so ourselves. The big one is of course the Crysis demo, including the editor you can have a fiddle around with. With which you can have a fiddle around, rather.

Next up, there's Hellgate London, then some tasty tasty Empire Earth III, and for the What Cars do You Guys Own? thread there's Need for Speed: Pro Street. And looking for RTS with a fresh taste? Take a bite of Stranger before you read the review in PCPP#148.

For Freedom Lovers there's Episode IV of season one of Sam & Max not to mention the pure, ASCII-powered awesomeness that is Dwarf Fortress.

Beyond all this, trailers, indie games and more, there's the second edition of the Community Bunker. It's a hell of a collection, and everyone involved in it can give themselves a well deserved pat on the back... then back to work on the next edition!

It never stops, does PCPP, but every four weeks we do earn ourselves a break, and the opportunity to sit back and enjoy the goodness.

Now read on!