PC Gamer

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PC Gamer is an English-speaking magazine created in the United Kingdom in 1993 and focused on the coverage of PC video games. It is published monthly by Future plc. The magazine has several regional editions, and has become the magazine specialized in this type of video games most sold in the United States and the United Kingdom.The magazine covers news about the videogames industry, advances of new titles and reviews on the latest and most po[CENSORED]r PC games, as well as other topics related to hardware, mods, "classic" games and others.

Review System
The reviews on PC Gamer are written by the editors of the magazine and by free writers, and rate the games with a percentage of 1% to 100%. In the US edition, no game has received a score greater than 98% (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Half-Life 2, and Crysis), while the UK edition has never awarded a rating greater than 96% (Civilization II, Half -Life, Half-Life 2, Minecraft, Spelunky and Quake II).

In the UK edition, the lowest numerical score was 2%, given to Big Brother 1. The sequel, Big Brother 2, received an even lower score of N / A%, the review explained that "[PC Gamer] put as much effort in the review as they put in the development of the game. " In the August 255, 2013 edition, the 2% score was matched by the review of the re-released Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, which originally received 3% when it first came out. In the US edition, the lowest score was 4%, given to Mad Dog McCree, upsetting the previous game with the lowest score, Skydive !, which received 5%.

Editions
There are two main editions of PC Gamer, a British version and an American version, both published by Future plc. Founded in the United Kingdom in November 1993, the US version was released a year later in June 1994.1

There are also numerous local editions that mainly use the material of one of the two main editions, especially the British one, including a Malaysian edition (discontinued in December 2011) and a Russian one. The Swedish edition, although it has its roots in its British counterpart, has become more independent, largely due to the immense po[CENSORED]rity of PC games compared to that of console games in Sweden, and today produces much of your own material. An Australian monthly edition was published by Perth Conspiracy Publishing since August 1998, but was discontinued in 2004. There is also a Spanish edition entitled PC Games and Players.

Both the British and the American magazine are published thirteen times a year (twice in December) 1 although sometimes there are variations.

Magazine
The British edition of PC Gamer has been published month by month without interruption since 1993. Subscribers receive a special edition of the magazine without headlines (only the main headline and the BBFC classification).

Dedicated almost exclusively to PC video games, the magazine has the reputation of offering deep reviews.9

The magazine was originally accompanied by a 3.5-inch floppy disk. A CD with demos (titled CD Gamer) was published in parallel with the flexible disc edition from edition 11 of the magazine onwards. The first disc contained all the content of the first 10 editions of floppy disks. Later, the CD edition was expanded to two discs.

An edition with a 9 GB DVD known as DVD Gamer was also published in parallel with the edition of 2 CDs for a couple of years, until the production of the CD Gamer edition ceased in edition 162. The UK edition then It came only with a single double-sided DVD. In August 2011, the British magazine announced that it would stop producing the album from the 232 edition, and replace it with more pages of content within the magazine and exclusive gifts