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PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.The magazine has several regional editions, with the UK and US editions becoming the best selling PC games magazines in their respective countries.
Journalist reporting and evaluation of video games in periodicals began from the late 1970s to 1980 in general coin-operated industry magazines like Play Meter [1] and RePlay, [2] home entertainment magazines like Video, [3] as well as magazines focused on computing and new information technologies like InfoWorld or Popular Electronics.
The magazine is one of the best-selling computer gaming magazines in Germany, after Computerbild Spiele and Gamestar. In the fourth quarter of 1999, PC Games sold 363,608 issues per month, making it the best-selling PC gaming magazine in Germany at the time.
During this period, GameSpot UK won the 1999 PPAi (Periodical Publishers Association interactive) award for best website, [25] and was short listed in 2001. [26] PC Gaming World was considered a "sister print magazine" and some content appeared on both GameSpot UK and PC Gaming World. [27]
The first consumer-oriented print magazine dedicated solely to video gaming was Computer and Video Games, which premiered in the U.K. in November 1981. This was two weeks ahead of the U.S. launch of the next oldest video gaming publication, Electronic Games magazine, founded by "Arcade Alley" writers Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz. [3]
It is the best-selling German-language magazine focused on PC gaming and it also hosts the largest video gaming-related portal in the German-speaking internet. GameStar.de is the largest PC gaming web portal in the German-speaking internet and one of the largest web portals in the entirety of the German-speaking internet. [2]
The Turkish edition was founded and initially written by M. Berker Güngör (alias "Maddog") in 1997 and then Sinan Akkol (alias "Blaxis") joined the family couple of years later when he attended to a contest and became the heart of Level; today it is the leading computer games magazine in Turkey, with over 25 authors and distribution of 20,000 per issue.
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