PC zone

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PC zone

description Computer game magazine
language English
publishing company Future plc
First edition April 1993
attitude September 2010
Frequency of publication 13 issues / year
Editor-in-chief Steve Hogarty
Web link www.pczone.co.uk
ISSN 0967-8220

The PC Zone was a British computer game magazine.

history

First published in April 1993, PC Zone was the first print magazine in Great Britain to specialize exclusively in PC games and was published by Dennis Publishing . Over the years it was mainly in competition with PC Gamer from Future plc , but in the end it has always remained below the sales figures of its competitor. In 2004, Future took over the PC Zone from Dennis Publishing together with Computer and Video Games for £ 2.5 million. Future continued to operate the magazine until 2010, but the discontinuation was announced in July 2010. The last magazine appeared on September 2, 2010.

Over the years, the magazine's authors included the future computer game writer Rhianna Pratchett , daughter of the fantasy author Terry Pratchett .

Edition

  • January - June 2004: approx. 41,000 copies / month
  • January - June 2005: 40,480 copies / month
  • January - June 2007: 24,385 copies / month
  • July - December 2007: 22,297 copies / month
  • January - December 2008: 19,023 copies / month
  • January - December 2009: 11,357 copies / month

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rebecca Armstrong: Fingers on the buttons . The Independent . July 11, 2005. Retrieved October 18, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b Chris Tryhorn: Future buys computer magazines ( English ) In: The Guardian . August 23, 2004. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  3. ^ Daniel Emery: PC Zone magazine is to shut after 17 years ( English ) In: BBC News . July 17, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
  4. ↑ Audience Figures ( English ) Future plc . Archived from the original on December 5, 2007. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ Audience Figures ( English ) Future plc . Archived from the original on October 9, 2008. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  6. ↑ Standard Certificate of Circulation - PC Zone ( English , PDF; 114 kB) ABC . February 12, 2009. Archived from the original on August 16, 2009. Retrieved March 18, 2009.
  7. ↑ Standard Certificate of Circulation - PC Zone ( English , PDF; 490 kB) ABC . February 11, 2010. Archived from the original on February 16, 2010. Retrieved on February 16, 2010.