Editing PC Zone (section)

{{short description|British video game magazine}}
{{more citations needed|date=April 2009}}
{{Infobox magazine
|image_file = PCZ193.cover.jpg | image_size = 200px | image_caption =  ''Issue 193, May 2008''
|editor         = Steve Hogarty
|frequency      = 13 per year
|circulation    = 11,357 (Jan 09 – Dec 09)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/16525421.pdf |title=Standard Certificate of Circulation - PC Zone |publisher=ABC|date=2010-02-11 |access-date=2010-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929032944/http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/16525421.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br/>19,023 (Jan 08 – Dec 08)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/15781929.pdf |title=Standard Certificate of Circulation - PC Zone |publisher=ABC|date=2009-02-12 |access-date=2009-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929033025/http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/15781929.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br/>22,297 (Jan 07 – Dec 07)[http://www.future-advertising.co.uk/ads/audiencefigures/figures.jsp?ref=3&brand=29]
|category       = [[Video game journalism]]
|company        = [[Future plc]]
|firstdate      = April 1993
|lastdate       = September 2010
|country        = United Kingdom
|based          = London
|language       = English
|issn           = 0967-8220
}}
'''''PC Zone''''', founded in 1993, was the first [[magazine]] dedicated to [[Video game|games]] for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom. Earlier PC magazines such as ''[[PC Leisure]]'', ''[[PC Format]]'' and ''[[PC Plus]]'' had covered games but only as part of a wider remit. The precursor to ''PC Zone'' was the award-winning multiformat title ''[[Zero (video game magazine)|Zero]]''.

The magazine was published by [[Dennis Publishing Ltd.]] until 2004, when it was acquired by [[Future plc]] along with ''[[Computer and Video Games (magazine)|Computer And Video Games]]'' for £2.5m.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Tryhorn |first1=Chris |last2=correspondent |first2=City |date=2004-08-23 |title=Future buys computer magazines |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/aug/23/futurepublishing.pressandpublishing |access-date=2023-04-07 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In July 2010, it was announced by Future plc that ''PC Zone'' was to close. The last issue of ''PC Zone'' went on sale 2 September 2010.<ref name="bbczonetoclose">{{cite news|author=Daniel Emery|title=PC Zone magazine is to shut after 17 years|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10641398|work=BBC News|date=2010-07-17|access-date=2010-07-17|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716221700/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10641398|archive-date=2010-07-16}}</ref>