New Releases - 01/25

[Kiwi]

Play (UK) issues 97, 111 and 114 have been scanned by Gregorick and added to the downloads area. Issue 97 was donated by JabbaTheGamer

   

[Kiwi]

PC Powerplay #70 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Jason scanned Tech-Life #07 along with the preview/sampler issue from an Australian PC User issue...

 

[Kiwi]

PC Powerplay #225 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Acorn User #75 is now available.

[HUNZso]

PC Powerplay #70 is now available.

It's amazing. Thank you very much these PC Powerplay issues.

[bigkev]

Thank you for the uploads everyone.

Play (UK) issues 97, 111 and 114 have been scanned by Gregorick and added to the downloads area. Issue 97 was donated by JabbaTheGamer

   

Are these Play magazines the same publication that took the mantle of the Official PlayStation Magazine?

[Gregorick]

Are these Play magazines the same publication that took the mantle of the Official PlayStation Magazine?

Short answer no, long answer from Wikipedia:

The magazine was first launched in 1995 by Imagine Publishing and was closed in 2016. Before it closed, the magazine had become the UK's longest-running PlayStation magazine. Issue 269, the magazine's final printed edition was published in April 2016 when it become a digital only publication for a short time. Prior to issue 249, PLAY came with a covermounted DVD every issue.

Future plc acquired Imagine Publishing and its brands in 2016. In May 2021, the PLAY brand was resurrected as a replacement for PlayStation Official Magazine UK. The numbering was reset and the staff were retained from PlayStation Official Magazine UK. The relaunched magazine was part of GamesRadar+. In October 2024, Future announced the magazine would cease publication.

As the later version, referred to on this site as Play (UK) (2021) has now ceased to exist both are being steadily uploaded so you can find the first 12 issues of the later run available for download now and many issues of the original publication are still being added.

[Kiwi]

ST Action #47 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Gregorick scanned Play (UK) issues 108, 123 and 124. Issue 123 was donated by JabbaTheGamer.

   

I'd put money on issue 108 having fluorescent colored wording on the cover. That's where the Fujitsu scanners have it over pretty much any other scanner out there with the chops to handle those colors way better than the competition hence my trying to keep the 5650c going. If it wasn't fluro then the publisher sure had bad taste with the color palette of that issue.

[Kiwi]

Jason submitted the supplement for PC Format #27 so I converted the issue from PDF to CBZ and included the supplement and the new version which has now replaced the original file.

[Kiwi]

Page 6 #23 is now available.

[Gregorick]

Gregorick scanned Play (UK) issues 108, 123 and 124. Issue 123 was donated by JabbaTheGamer.
I'd put money on issue 108 having fluorescent colored wording on the cover. That's where the Fujitsu scanners have it over pretty much any other scanner out there with the chops to handle those colors way better than the competition hence my trying to keep the 5650c going. If it wasn't fluro then the publisher sure had bad taste with the color palette of that issue.

Yeah this issues cover was supposed to be a bit more fluorescent but much like my scans of Playstation Power Issue 31, Essential Playstation Issue 12, Playstation Solutions Issue 23, Play Issue 89 and a few others, the colours are just slightly off. If anyone else can get a better scan of the cover of these (or any of my magazines for that matter) please feel free to send it over for updating. Would love to see them preserved as near to the original as possible.

[kitsunebi]

Star Trek The Official Magazine #9 is up. 



Once again, this is scans by Jason, and edits by me.  Jason did a fine job, as always, so it's through no fault of his that this was one ugly scan.  Titan should be absolutely ashamed of the paper stock they used.  Just terrible.  These mags were all in like-new condition, aside from the aging, with many of them still sealed in their original polybags.  But the discoloration from the aging of the paper is the kind of thing you usually only expect in newsprint, not magazine stock.  For shame.

In case you're wondering, yes.  Yes it DOES take ages to edit these damn things.  But then I can't very well leave them as they are straight off the scanner, now can I?

 

[Jason]

I had to be careful handling some of the pages of these issues because the print quality is that bad that the ink in the photos comes off onto your hands and leaves thumbprint marks on the page. Think of the cheapest newspaper print you can find, and then imagine something worse I had to consider some of these scans as a 1 shot (and hope they fed straight) because the scanner rollers left big track marks when passing over the darker pages.

So its a credit to Kitsunebi what an amazing job he does cleaning these up, the difference is immense!