Reuniting members of the @PCZone team with the pages they worked on, to bring you stories from beyond the games.
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19 Jan 2024
Also, after years of haranguing (spelt it right this time, I think), The King of Grabs (aka Mallo) has also wavered in his unwillingness to participate. Macca remains stubborn, but we'll wear him down eventually.
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19 Jan 2024
Is it too late to wish everyone a happy new year? Yeah? Won't bother then.
Here's a thing. There's a chance we might be able to get Charlie on an episode. (As in, he said he would, but this is Charlie we're talking about so who knows.) If so, which issue should we look at?
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The hauranguing one
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The arse-eating one
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The Cruelty Zoo one
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Any one
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15 Nov 2023
We're recording a new episode tonight - something of a monster with six people joining simultaneously. If we never speak of it again, you'll know it was an absolute trainwreck of a recording.
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11 Nov 2023
The story of Daikatana, from hype to despair, as told to @rik_ffg via the ancient pages of @pczone.
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After a supremely modest Kickstarter success in 2018, ex-Zoner Nick Brakespear's text adventure is out on Steam today. Check it out!
It's free, you blaggards!
store.steampowered.com/app/6…
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17 Oct 2023
New episode: Issue 103 (June 2001) ▶️ pczone.substack.com/p/the-du…
Mark Hill, @MartinKorda, @rhipratchett, Keith Pullin and @zptr explore the Dunes, creep up on a few stealth games and try to remember if the @pczone Reader Awards were any good.
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16 Oct 2023
New episode should be up tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime, a classic choon to get you in the mood.
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PC Zone Lives! retweeted
22 Sep 2023
Chatting with Richie Shoemaker @zptr ex-deputy editor of iconic PC Zone, we explore the mag's history & its role in shaping PC gaming! 🎮
#retrogaming #Podcast
👉 theretrohour.com/pc-zone-mag…
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2 Sep 2023
On the anniversary of Zone's final issue, indulging in wishful thinking is permitted.
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PC Zone Lives! retweeted
29 Aug 2023
The latest issue is out now. The cover feature looks at the earliest celebs who embraced gaming including an interview with @berenyi_miki
Also we covered the PC Zone reunion @PCZoneLives , some classic mag talk & lots more!
pixel.addict.media
#videogames #computing
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17 Aug 2023
Our official archivist went through all the old issues to find out how hot the mag was towards VR. The answer (spoiler alert): tepid
pczone.substack.com/p/you-to…
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17 Aug 2023
WARNING: May contain traces of PC Zone
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PC Zone Lives! retweeted
10 Aug 2023
The spirit of YS carried on into Zero and then finally into PC Zone.
If you're a fan of the legacy of Your Sinclair then you should give the @PCZoneLives podcast a listen.
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31 Jul 2023
Further to the most recent episode of the podcast, PC Zone Scholar (official title) Chris wrote a quite good article on why Duncan MacDonald is so revered around these parts. pczone.substack.com/p/im-hot…
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17 Jul 2023
PC Zone breifly reunites and a 30-year mystery is solved... open.substack.com/pub/pczone…
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13 Jul 2023
▶️ New Oipisode!
Vici MacDonald had a massive impact on the development and success of PC Zone that most will be unaware of, and not just as the sister of Mr. Cursor. She talks at length about both, and much more besides, in the first audio Oi!
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12 Jul 2023
New episode will be up tomorrow.
Slightly different to the usual format. More PC Zone Lives (pl. life) than PC Zone Lives (is alive). Tentatively calling it 'Oi!'
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'Ello.
Former writer, Future bod, Dennis bod, games industry friend or 'general person that the disembodied floating entity of PC Zone really liked'... and you haven't heard about the big meet-up plans / wheatos?
Please contact your nearest @zptr @Batsphinx or @Seffers007!
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23 Jun 2023
PC Zone Lives, lives!
Teresa Maughan, Tim Ponting, Lord Paul Lakin and art editor Duncan Hemphill talk to @zptr about the race to launch the first PC games mag and how PC Zone was set to continue in the grand traditions of Your Sinclair and Zero.
pczone.substack.com/p/the-la…
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