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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.
PC PowerPlay's review had a more negative tone, giving it a score of 30 out of 100. [ 5 ] Computer Games Magazine 's Tom Chick gave the game 1 out of 5 stars, remarking that "the controls feel more like you're scrolling the scenery rather than driving a boat" and that "the combat seems to have been an afterthought".
Canard PC is an independent magazine founded in France in 2003 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly. [2] [3] The title Canard PC is a paronym, derived from Canard WC, which is the French name for Toilet Duck. Canard PC ' s independence from the game companies is recognized in the French video gaming circles.
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. However, from 2002 on, the print market started to decline and PC Games ' s sale figures decreased. By the fourth quarter of 2011, only 102,032 copies per month were sold. [6] [5] [1]
[1] [2] The magazine features news on developments in the video game industry, previews of new games, and reviews of the latest popular PC games, along with other features relating to hardware, mods, "classic" games and various other topics. PC Gamer and parent Future began digital PC Gaming Show at E3 2015. [3]
This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for computer and technology enthusiasts or users. The majority of these magazines cover general computer topics or several non-specific subject areas, however a few are also specialized to a certain area of computing and are listed separately.
Joystick (formerly Joystick Hebdo) [4] [8] was a French computer magazine that published monthly issues on PC games. It was founded in 1988 by Marc Andersen, [5] who later left in November 1995. Originally published in the form of a 32-page weekly magazine in 1988 and 1989, it saw monthly 148-page issues (and more) past 1990.
A personal computer game, also known as a computer game [a] or abbreviated PC game, is a video game played on a personal computer (PC). The term PC game has been popularly used since the 1990s referring specifically to games on " Wintel " ( Microsoft Windows software/ Intel hardware) which has dominated the computer industry since.