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PC ZONE LIVES

Members of the PC Zone team are reunited with the pages they worked on to bring you stories from beyond the games

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A tale of two Pratchetts

Confessions of a dick whose work is mediocre at best

Daikatana: When PC Zone made John Romero a pitch

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

We have stuff!

And a new face!

The Dune Issue (June 2001)

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.

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Could PC Zone make a print comeback?

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

The exciting world of virtual reality videogaming*

*according to PC Zone, circa FHM

“I’m hot. My nipples are like bullets. I’m holding a banana”

In praise of Duncan MacDonald

Celebrating 30 years (and 132 days) since being first

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

Oi! Vici MacDonald

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.

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The Launch Issue (April 1993)

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 talks about the…

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