I remember reading you in PC Zone way back when and now you're Rod Serling for the Smartphone Generation™.
Future, the company that produces the official magazines for the Playstation 2 and Xbox consoles, has acquired PC Zone and Computer & Video Games, together with the website computerandvideogames.com.
He'd spent most of his twenties freelancing for PC Zone, a little-read gaming magazine, where he was able to indulge his obscene and misanthropic sense of humor.
The action is so fast and furious at the RA PC Zone, their favorite meeting spot among the thousands of game rooms here, that they have almost no time to talk.
Correction: October 26 , 2002 Saturday An article on Oct. 9 about the booming popularity of computer games in South Korea and the industry it has spawned misstated the fee at the RA PC Zone game room in Pusan.
PC Zone, Britain's longest-running computer games magazine, sold a monthly average of 41,000 copies during the six months to June 30 this year, while Computer & Video Games's monthly average was 19,200, 40% down on last year.
"Very few of our customers come alone," said Kim Gi Beum, the 29-year-old owner of the RA PC Zone, reputedly the largest of Pusan's thousands of game rooms, or PC bangs, as they are known here.
It will add content from C&VG as well as its other computer titles, including PC Zone and Official Dreamcast, and is hoping for 500,000 regular users within the first month of the site's existence.
PC Zone was offering the device for $449 at its zones.com site.
"The closure of PC Zone is the end of an era," said Mr Brooker.
