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UK mag PC Gamer has dropped a 30 percent review score on FFXIV, saying the MMO has “one of the most heinous interfaces ever devised”.

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PC Gamer has issued a warning to those looking to pick up Stardock-published turn-based strategy game Elemental that the game has been the subject of a “disastrous launch” and punters should “stay well away”.

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Future Publishing is wondering why its rival, Imagine Publishing, has not released circulation figures since launching Total PC Gaming in 2007. As you do.

Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, James Binns was curious as to why the publisher had yet to reveal an ABC for the title.

“What’s interesting in the PC market is we had a competitor launch that hasn’t revealed ABCs yet,” said Binns.

“Total PC Gaming has talked up quite a big talk and they’re 16 issues in now and haven’t owned up to their copy sales. If it was still 16 issues in and I was still hiding – it’s weird for them to boast so much and then show so little,” he added.

Imagine’s Managing Director Damian Butt rebutted, saying the reason why an official figure hasn’t been released was that the magazine simply wasn’t established enough yet.

“We would always be at a massive competitive disadvantage against those rival magazines that have had years to build up subs and export sales”, he said.

“Which as you can see from the ABCs for PC Gamer and PC Zone are quite considerable.”

Circulation numbers are down with Future’s offerings, though, and news of lay-offs in the US was confirmed today.

According to this BeefJack post, PC Gamer’s given GTA IV 92 percent in its review.

There’s a précis of the review through there. It’s the first score we can see: there’s nothing on Metacritic yet.

PC Gamer’s 91 percent Spore review’s been published online, as you can see here.

As reported yesterday, the German PC mags have been less kind to the EA epic, with Gamestar and PC Games giving it 79 and 73 percent respectively.

Online reviews in Europe are embargoed until the game releases on Friday.

That’s it, really. PC Gamer’s given S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky a miserable 6.8/10, as you can see on CVG.

Probably won’t play it, if we’re being honest. Get more sad-smiley-face scores here.

UK mag PC Gamer has published the first UK review of EA’s Christmas mega-risk, Spore.

It’s not what you’d think, either. The mag’s given it 91 percent, questioning a “completely unacceptable” lack of auto-save and saying the game’s “biggest, dumbest and most easily fixable flaw” is the inability to back out of wars you accidentally stumble into in the latter stages of play.

The piece does, however, grant that Spore’s “beautiful,” “hilarious” and “annoyingly adorable.” Did you know there’s an AT-AT in it? We didn’t.

We’re sure someone will scan the review before too long.

PC Gamer US has shown it’ll have the first look at Crysis Warhead in next issue, due out June 24.

“This announcement answers a lot of questions,” says the mag, “like why did Crytek cancel plans for a Crysis 1.3 patch (’cause they’re too busy building an awesome new game!) – but asks so many more: Will Warhead be a PC exclusive? Will it run better in DirectX 9 mode? All the answers, plus amazing screenshots and an interview with Crytek’s Cevat Yerli.”

Through the link.

According to this massively story, the current issue of PC Gamer offers readers a free Age of Conan item.

Apparently, the freebie’s called the Totem of Origins, and lets the player teleport back to their home city once every 24 hours.

Doesn’t make your tits bigger though, does it? We assume this is US-only. More through the link.

Gamesradar’s posted the next cover of the US PC Gamer, which includes more details on Dawn of War II, based on a trip a couple of weeks ago to see Relic in Vancouver. The mag’s also promising details on the upcoming Vigil-developed 40K MMO, which THQ boss Brian Farrell yesterday said was years off.

The mag’s out on April 29.