Editing GamePro (section)

==''PC Games''==
What was called a "sister publication" to ''GamePro'', ''PC Games'', was published by IDG until 1999.<ref name=circulation /> It was founded in August 1988, but changed its name to ''Electronic Entertainment'' in late 1993 and ''PC Entertainment'' in early 1996. The title reverted to ''PC Games'' in June 1996.<ref name=gamesetwatch>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206185138/http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/01/column_game_mag_weaseling_pc_g_1.php | url=http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/01/column_game_mag_weaseling_pc_g_1.php | title=COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': PC Game Mag Obscurity | author=Gifford, Kevin | date=January 31, 2010 | work=[[GameSetWatch]] | archive-date=February 6, 2010 | url-status=live }}</ref> Its [https://web.archive.org/web/19961018095256/http://www.pcgamesmag.com/ ''PC Games'' Online] website was merged with several other IDG properties, including ''GamePro'' Online, to form the IDG Games Network in late 1997.<ref name=wired>{{cite magazine | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413040357/https://www.wired.com/1997/11/idg-prepares-gaming-info-network/ | url=https://www.wired.com/1997/11/idg-prepares-gaming-info-network/ | title=IDG Prepares Gaming Info Network | date=November 20, 1997 | author=Brown, Janelle | archive-date=April 13, 2018 | url-status=live | magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] }}</ref> The print version of ''PC Games'' was the fourth-largest computer game magazine in the United States during 1998, with a circulation of 169,281. In March 1999, it was purchased and closed by [[Future US|Imagine Publishing]];<ref name=circulation>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817175052/http://www.gamecenter.com/News/Item/0,3,0-2558,00.html | url=http://www.gamecenter.com:80/News/Item/0,3,0-2558,00.html | title=Imagine Shuts Down ''PC Games'' | work=[[CNET|CNET Gamecenter]] | date=March 10, 1999 | author=Asher, Mark | archive-date=August 17, 2000 | url-status=dead | access-date=August 8, 2018 | df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name=sfgate>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105001515/https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Gaming-Magazines-Dig-In-for-Showdown-in-S-F-2929884.php | url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Gaming-Magazines-Dig-In-for-Showdown-in-S-F-2929884.php | title=Gaming Magazines Dig In for Showdown in S.F. | date=May 20, 1999 | author=Fost, Dan | work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] | archive-date=January 5, 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref> its April 1999 issue was its last.<ref name=gamedailypro /> Following this event, Imagine sent former subscribers of ''PC Games'' issues of ''[[PC Gamer US]]'' and ''[[PC Accelerator]]'' in its place.<ref name=gamesetwatch /><ref name=gamedailypro>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010525113218/http://www.gamedaily.com/news/march_99/3_8/index.shtml | url=http://www.gamedaily.com:80/news/march_99/3_8/index.shtml | title=Gain a Portal, Lose a Magazine | date=March 8, 1999 | archive-date=May 25, 2001 | author=Staff | work=[[GameDaily]] | url-status=dead | access-date=August 8, 2018 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> According to [[GameDaily]], the move came as part of IDG's rebranding effort to lean more heavily on the ''GamePro'' name: coverage of computer games was thereafter centralized at PCGamePro.com, and in the "''PC GamePro''" section of ''GamePro''{{'}}s print edition.<ref name=gamedailypro />