No More PC ZONE.

:( haven't bought a magazine in yeaaaaaaaaaaaars but i remember getting all those game demos back when i was only using a pentium 100mhz, ahh those were the days, simpler times :D
 
I'm still a subscriber, I hardly get any time to play games these days but I like to get the magazine just to keep an eye on what’s happening and well because it's funny to read. Had many a laugh reading PC-Zone with it's edgy style, especially Brookers stuff back in the day, it was an influencing part of my youth really.

R.I.P PC-Zone, you will not be forgotten.
 
I actually remember reading Zero, I had the Issue 0, the pre-release taster issue. Loads of the writers in Early PC Zone came from Your Sinclair, another 'legendary', almost genre defining magazine.

I have quite a few of the early PC-Zone, from about issue 18 or so, till about 1999-2000

As for 'i don't get cover discs' You have to remember these magazines are of a time when not everybody had internet... Broadband wasn't even invented... People got their games from friends and sneakernet. Even if you did have internet, it would have been 28.8 or maybe 33.6 modems and latterly 56K and digital distrubution as we know it today just wasn't happening. You were much more likely to send of some floppy disks and get some back from a friend. Hell even CD writers, didn't become remotely affordable till the late 90's Peoples hard disks were 4 GB if they were lucky.
 
was good before but got WAY too much and they don't really need cover disks anymore (not used one since I got broadband) so why not drop them?
there are a few mags (360 gamer etc) that sell for £3 and don't have stupid coverdisks that I buy every month now.
although I understand that the quality went downhill a while ago too!
 
arknor said:
why would anyone buy a magazine about pc games? they are outdated by time you buy them anyway everyone who plays pc games can read about games on the internet i expect console magazines wont last much longer either
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I used to read it in the car, on trains, on the bog. Some people still like to read the old way, without needing to click a mouse and stare at a computer monitor 24/7.
 
I used to enjoy it during the mid and late 90's, when it was a rather 'edgier' than PC Gamer. I even remember Charlie Brooker's contributions and the Frontier: First Encounters article! It was well deserved. :D

I stopped buying the occasional copy five or six years ago, but hadn't been a regular for ten years. Sad to see it go though, but it was inevitable.
 
EDGE has always been the most concise and professional gaming mag out there and has never needed to resort to bundling tacky CD/DVDs to shift it.

Honestly who still reads Computer related information on printed page, that's just backwards. :S
 
Great in the 90's

Same with pc gamer, full of great informative articles with the gloss.

Sadly future took them in the same dirrection as they did with the pc gamer revamp, and it became gloss with info.

I would still buy zone and gamer were they less tacky and had the full on content of what they had. As is i do buy the games tm, and most definately retro gamer every month, both those, more so retro gamer are in the style of pc zones glory years.

Not bought zone in a couple of years, sad to see them pass away, but without pointing it out i wouldn't have noticed.

ill make sure i buy the last one though:)

Edit for the above, i reads it mate, computers don't go well in the bathroom, and it'll be a cold day in hell when i take a computer camping with me:)
 
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JCBeastie said:
EDGE has always been the most concise and professional gaming mag out there and has never needed to resort to bundling tacky CD/DVDs to shift it.

Honestly who still reads Computer related information on printed page, that's just backwards. :S
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i've bought edge on occasion, but I can't be the only one surely, who find edge to be tediously dry, and almost boring to read? Sure the quality is there, the research and the variety of articles is there, the breadth and scope etc etc, but the end result is so dull. It's like the Financial Times of video game mags.
 
Magazines in this country are gettin really really expensive, £5, £6 not uncommon. No surprise that bookstores and grocery stores have people readin them off the shelf and then puttin em back. I do still buy but very very rarely. They are good for offerin full-blown software for free (well kinda cuz u have to buy the mag). For example I got Ashampoo 2010 full version when I got a Computer Shopper.

Other than that...the internet ownz...and now with tablets gettin popular its about to get harder for paper mags in the long run.

But good for the jungles of the world eh :)
 
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