PC gamer
PC Gamer is a computer game magazine from the British publisher Future plc , which is published in several countries.
Publications
British edition
| PC Gamer (UK) | |
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| description | Computer game magazine |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Future plc |
| First edition | December 1993 |
| Frequency of publication | 13 issues / year |
| Editor-in-chief | Graham Smith |
| editor | Richard Keith |
| Web link | www.pcgamer.com |
| ISSN |
1351-3540 |
PC Gamer was Future's first UK magazine to focus exclusively on coverage for Windows games. For a long time it was in competition with the PC Zone until it was also taken over by Future. The PC Gamer was characterized in particular by extensive reports. Compared to the PC Zone, it recently had the stronger sales figures.
Edition:
- January - June 2005: 57,023 copies / month
- January - June 2007: 41,599 copies / month
- July - December 2007: 38,654 copies / month
- January - June 2008: 32,619 copies / month
US edition
| PC Gamer (US) | |
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| description | Computer game magazine |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Future US |
| First edition | May / June 1994 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Editor-in-chief | Logan Decker |
| editor | Ace St. Germain |
| Web link | www.pcgamer.com |
| ISSN |
1080-4471 |
The US edition of the magazine started with the May / June 1994 edition and has its own editorial team. At the end of 1999, Futures American publishing company Imagine Media took over the competition booklet PC Games (US) from IDG Verlag and merged it with PC Gamer.
Edition:
- 2003: 309,460 copies
German offshoot
In July 1999 Future took over the German print magazine PC Player, which had been running since 1992, from WEKA Holding . In the course of the takeover, the design of the PC player was adapted to the PC Gamer and the magazine was thus built up as the German sister magazine of PC Gamer, supplemented, among other things, by translated reports from the US magazine. In the summer of 2001, however, Future stopped all activities on the German market, and PC Player was dissolved.
More local branches
- Australia (August 1998 to 2004)
- Malaysia (until December 2011)
- Russia
- Sweden
- Spanish edition PC Juegos y Jugadores
Online presence
The original PC Gamer UK website was brought together under the umbrella of the Computer and Video Games website in 2007, along with other Future publications (including PC Zone, Xbox World 360, PlayStation World, PSM3, NGamer) . In 2010, Future started a new joint appearance of its two English-language editions with pcgamer.com.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rebecca Armstrong: Fingers on the buttons . The Independent . July 11, 2005. Retrieved October 18, 2007.
- ↑ Audience Figures ( English ) Future plc . Archived from the original on December 5, 2007. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ↑ Audience Figures ( English ) Future plc . Archived from the original on October 9, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ↑ Audience Figures ( English ) Future plc . Archived from the original on March 23, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ↑ Dan Fost: Gaming Magazines Dig In for showdown in SF ( English ) San Francisco Chronicle. May 20, 1999. Retrieved October 18, 2007: "Three months ago, Imagine bought IDG's PC Games and folded it into PC Gamer"
- ↑ MDS Top Circulation Magazines ( Memento from December 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "PC Player" completely revised . In: horizon . German specialist publisher . October 6, 1999. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ Off for the future publishing house . In: horizon . German specialist publisher . April 27, 2001. Accessed on May 15, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Future launches PCGamer.com - new online home for global PC gaming authority ( English ) Future plc . June 14, 2010. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
