Editing PC PowerPlay (section)

== Website & forum ==
In addition to the magazine itself there were several websites that are closely linked with it. The official ''PC PowerPlay'' website was launched in 2001, but was taken offline following the collapse of the online division of publishing company ''Next Media'', then lay dormant until July 2006.

While it had a typical frontpage with online articles most of the traffic went to the ''PC PowerPlay'' forums. The forum database had been preserved across a number of technology migrations. It first began on a [[ColdFusion]] powered site in 2001, then moved to [[phpBB]] and was converted to [[vBulletin]] in 2007. It was one of the largest Australian specific online forums while it existed. The forums provided discussion of gaming and computer related software and technology. There were also "off-topic" sections dedicated to general discussion and banter, serious discussions regarding Australian national, regional and international issues and a section for discussions of TV shows, films and music. This design also allows the organisation of multiplayer games amongst the ''PCPP'' readers and other forum members. The general discussion section of the PCPP Forum is titled "Rhubarb", because of editor Anthony Fordham's love of the old British joke of having extras in movie crowd scenes say "rhubarbrhubarbrhubarb" to simulate incidental conversation.

A website re-launch occurred on 22 April 2009, consisting of a customised [[Joomla]] install and layout, and an intention to regularly updated blogs, news articles and major features, although it quickly fell back into the same problems with contributors not updating the news sections, leaving the forum to continue as the only regularly updated section.

On Wednesday, 12 March 2010, the PCPP website and forum software was replaced with a CMS provided by CyberGamer. This software also powers the cybergamer.com.au website. PCPP is now listed as a "Media Partner" of CyberGamer whilst CyberGamer now receives advertising space within PCPP and PCPP's sister magazine, Hyper. A press release was issued on 18 March, detailing the arrangement between both parties. As part of this online merger, PCPP's established community were incorporated within the CyberGamer Network. The CyberGamer Network acts as a single-sign on service for all CyberGamer-powered sites. Hyper Magazine was due to migrate their web presence to a CyberGamer network powered system on 8 April 2010.

The transition to the CyberGamer forums was considered by the community to have been handled badly and on 12 August 2010, ''PC PowerPlay''{{'}}s then-editor, Anthony Fordham, announced that the PCPP Forums would revert to the old vBulletin software, stating that the ''PC PowerPlay'' community were not happy with the current CyberGamer software. Discussions were made regarding a potential merger with the Hyper game forum that was centred around console gaming, but no concrete plans ever came about.

The forum was eventually closed in December 2017 as costs to run the server and the dwindling userbase made it uneconomical to continue. The frontpage was redirected to a [[PC Gamer]] website for the magazines writers to update, but ceased updating articles in 2018.