No More PC ZONE.
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Ah i remember getting Counter Strike patches and updates for all sorts of games from PCZone, money well spent on subscriptions. It will be missed
Yup, same here! Look forward to getting this once a month, I'm really surprised and gutted by this. RIP Zone
I stopped buying them a while back after the reviews just didn't match up to the games, then found out one old mag had been sued, and everyone else had to sign contracts saying they wouldn't share review copies with them because they used shock horror 50% to mark a average game, not the industry standard 73%.
Have a read back of some old mags and see how many got around 73% and where crap, 73% is the accepted figure for a games pr department to accept it asd an acceptable score but for the mag to "warn" readers, although lately it seems 83% is the new "average"
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Does anyone remember the PCZONE Forums ? They used the same forum software as PCPro (understandable) and there was quite a vibrant community there. One of my first online 'hideouts' .. Was anyone else a member back then probably around 1995 or so.
Well I enjoy reading so I never really thought about it like that. Spose the average gamer needs more pictures!
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PC Zone was rubbish anyway. PCGamer was better during the times of Matt Pierce, Adam Oxford and Kieron Gillen, but then that descended into trash too. PCFormat was always my favourite.
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Thats the main reason i stopped getting PCZ, they could at least offer a non disc version. Of course in the days of dial up the discs were great but they really seem pointless now.
Then youve got news and reviews which are often out of date by the time the mag gets to you. That really just leaves you with the written features which generally arent worth £6 to flick through.
Agreed. Gametrailers rocks, i'm not to fond of ign or gamespot as I think they overload you with information and navigating through there sites isn't as smooth as gametrailers.
I was a regular reader of PC Zone back in 1997-2001. But gaming magazines are waste of paper nowdays I think.
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No more Steve Hill's Neverquest!!!!!
Some of the funniest stuff I've ever read in printed form some months!
Some of the funniest stuff I've ever read in printed form some months!
Seriously? Even though PC Gamer was nowhere near as well written, and basically gave every game that had recieved at least some hype a great score and heaps of praise?
I started reading PC Zone back in 1997 and bought every issue religiously up until a few years ago. The writing was far superior to PCG, but the best thing for me was that they were not afraid to be critical of big games. Quite a few times, games came out which had been hyped for months, only to flop. Only PC Zone seemed to be openly critical and give such games poor scores if they deserved it. It was excellent, because if a game scored 80%+ you knew it was truly great; anything scoring 90%+ was rare, but you knew it would be absolutely brilliant.
By contrast, everytime I read a review in PCG (not often I admit), they never seemed to give any big games proper critical reviews or lower scores.
Spot on, it was actually laughable. Then there was their penchant for reviewing games before they went Gold in order to get the scoop. Tje writing really was humourless and bland. I never trusted their reviews as far as I could throw them.
Yup also spot on... PCZ was openly critical of any bad game and called a spade a spade... and this got them a LOT of respect form the major devs. Peter Molyneux loved them, John Carmack loved them, they got a lot of time and personal interviews as a result. I loved their features.
That's because the reviewers of PC Gamer were more suseptible to back handers and conflict of interests due to advertising.
Sad to see a mag go under.
I never read this one but used to subscribe to PCFormat for years up until a year ago, not because I could read most of the stuff contained within on the net but because it started to repeat its features too much after a big staff change, I felt the writing had gone downhill too, it was nowhere near as witty and sharp as it used to be (no more Adam 'cueball' Oxford ).
I still needed toilet reading though so get the official XBox mag now. Sure, I could read all the reviews online (and actually do) but I still like to read a magazine.
!!!Long live magazines!!!
I never read this one but used to subscribe to PCFormat for years up until a year ago, not because I could read most of the stuff contained within on the net but because it started to repeat its features too much after a big staff change, I felt the writing had gone downhill too, it was nowhere near as witty and sharp as it used to be (no more Adam 'cueball' Oxford
). I still needed toilet reading though so get the official XBox mag now. Sure, I could read all the reviews online (and actually do) but I still like to read a magazine.
!!!Long live magazines!!!
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Always sad to see a good mag go under .
I still buy other magazines though, PCG, the odd Custom PC and Cycling Plus. I think its the convenience that I can take it anywhere rather be tied down to a pc or laptop, I can't stare at a PC all day and night. Generally the news is out of date thanks to the internet, but you still get the odd exclusive scoop, good quality articles, views etc. Still plan to buy mags for many years to come
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.I still buy other magazines though, PCG, the odd Custom PC and Cycling Plus. I think its the convenience that I can take it anywhere rather be tied down to a pc or laptop, I can't stare at a PC all day and night. Generally the news is out of date thanks to the internet, but you still get the odd exclusive scoop, good quality articles, views etc. Still plan to buy mags for many years to come
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