PC PowerPlay
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First Issue of PC PowerPlay (May 1996)
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| Editor | John Gillooly |
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| Categories | PC gaming |
| Frequency | 28 days (13 times yearly) |
| Circulation | 14,527 |
| Publisher | Next Publishing Pty Ltd |
| First issue | May 1996 |
| Company | Next Media Pty Ltd |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Website | Official website |
| ISSN | 1326-5644 |
PC PowerPlay (PCPP) is Australia's only dedicated PC games magazine. Also available in New Zealand, PC PowerPlay focuses on news and reviews for upcoming and newly released games on the Microsoft Windows platform. The magazine also reviews computer hardware for use on gaming computers. The magazine is published by Next Media Pty Limited.
The magazine comes with a DVD which includes game demos, freeware games, teaser trailers, patches, mods, maps, utilities and computer wallpapers.
A CD version was also available until September 2005 where it was replaced by a DVD edition.
(Although for a brief time, both editions existed while gamers made the transition from one technology to the next.)
The main sections included in each month's magazine include:
A number of notable sections that used to appear in the magazine included:
Each review of a game or product is given a score out of ten.
PC PowerPlay has given 10/10 scores to a number of games including:
A 10/10 game is connoted not as a perfect game but as a "masterpiece with flaws". (The 10/10 score system replaced the old system of 0% to 100%.)
PCPP once stated "What was the difference between a game which gets 95% and a game that gets 96%?". This was precisely what readers argued about.
Under the previous percentage system, only Wolfenstein 3D ever received 100% (that 100% converted to 10/10 when printed in review score summaries in later issues), while the next closest score ever given, 98%, was given to:
In addition to the magazine itself there are 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.
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