PC ZONE LIVES

Confessions of a dick whose work is mediocre at best

It was the next big FPS from the rock star programmer behind Doom and Quake. Right up PC Zone’s street, you might think. And it was, until they, like everyone else, started to lose patience

And a new face!

Listen now | Rhianna Pratchett, Mark Hill, Martin Korda and Keith Pullin (PC Zone’s one-time staff writer, news editor, section editor and Dear Keith respectively) talk about their contributions to PC Zone circa Dune 2001.

Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow (because it's Sunday), but soon?

*according to PC Zone, circa FHM

In praise of Duncan MacDonald

No no. No, no no no. No, no no no. That is not John Davison

A more traditional podcast format for the sixth episode of PC Zone Lives, where instead of trying – and often failing – to get a virtual room full of people to remember a very specific time in PC Zone history, your amiable host goes through one person’s entire Zone-infused CV.

Listen now | PC Zone was the UK’s first games-only PC magazine. You know this because, (a) we don’t shut up about it, and, (b) it was plastered above the masthead when the first issue was delivered way back in March 1993 (so it must be true). But, did you also know that PC Zone was conceived as early as 1991? You’ll know this because Your Sinclair and Zero legend Teresa Maughan t...

If you’ve never heard of PC Zone, you’re probably wondering what all this is about. If you have, you may be equally perplexed as to why it has appeared just now on a platform for newsletters, of all things. PC Zone is — or was — a magazine devoted to PC gaming. It may or may not have been the first of its kind in the world, but it certainly was the first of its kind in the...

Doom, Quake, Half-Life...

When PC Zone revealed Half-Life 2 to the world in its June 2003 issue, it was as much a surprise to its provincial rival as it was to the magazine's readers.

PC Zone may have been resting during the second coming of virtual reality in 2016, but the magazine was awash with youth and vigour when the first VR headsets were previewed in the October 1994 issue. Your Sinclair veteran Phil South and CD-ROM Magazine’s

The reprobates of PC gaming™ are back, reliving their time on the UK's first and best PC games mag!