There was an attitude of 'anything goes provided it's funny'. "Often the reviews were quite long: you'd have to write four or five pages on Tomb Raider, say, which offered plenty of scope for going off on tangents or penning lengthy nonsensical screeds.
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It was also where I learned to write, so if you hate my flippant, manic-depressive 'style', blame PC Zone. It never took anything too seriously, least of all itself. It always managed to have that distincitve voice, like all great magazines."īrooker had this to say: "PC Zone was a cross between Viz and Which? magazine. "There were some great writers who got their start on the magazine, like Charlie Brooker and David McCandless, who have gone on to bigger and better things. "It's magnificent that it lasted 17 years given that this is predominantly a market now dominated by the internet, and has been for some time," he said. PC Zone's launch publisher, Tim Ponting, who is now director of the videogame PR company Renegade, told us he was incredibly sad to see the magazine fold. Writers like Charlie Brooker – actually, shouldn't he be writing this? – made their names on Zone, but the internet and the growth of console gaming saw sales rapidly decline.
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The games industry was increasingly becoming the professional gargantuan beast we know today, but Zone's tone and humour harked back to the more anarchic – at least in the UK – industry of the 80s and early 90s. Zone was especially relevant in the mid 90s. That won't stop many shedding a nostalgic tear or two, of course. Here are our 40 most anticipated video games of 2022.The news that PC Zone magazine is to close was no real surprise, given the low ABCs (11,000) and general decline in PC games sales. But I’ll leave the armchair analysis of pandemic-era game programmers for another time. The most promising indie games center on anthropomorphic dinosaurs graduating high school, a teeny fox with a sword and shield and a stray cat, who is…also wandering across an apocalyptic, post-humanity, cyberpunk landscape. There’s even a decent-looking Harry Potter open-world RPG that may finally break the long streak of awful games set at Hogwarts. There are several poppy cinematic spinoffs featuring Marvel and DC superheroes, Gollum from Lord of the Rings and the Na’vi from Avatar. Even pink puffball Kirby is bouncing through an abandoned city rather than his typical brightly-colored dreamland.ĭon’t worry, it’s not all doom and gloom. Or a post-apocalyptic world where millions of people suddenly disappear or die. Or a post-apocalyptic world that has been decimated by climate change. I also couldn’t help but notice there are an awful lot of new games set in a post-apocalyptic world where a virus has ravaged the planet’s population. Martin, the mystical Forspoken from Uncharted’s Amy Henig and the space saga Starfield, a game that’s been in the works at Bethesda for 25 years.
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Perhaps even more intriguing than the old series are original concept games from famous creators, including the fantastical Elden Ring from none other than George R.R. Hollow Knight and Breath of the Wild are also (supposedly) debuting sequels in 2022, though given the scope of these games and previous delays, those release dates may well slip into 2023. Some of the most lauded games of the last decade are getting new entries this year, including Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War and Gran Turismo.
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