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PC Gamer

Gaming and tech enthusiast press (non-partisan; mildly center-left in the rare political coverage)

Owned byFuture plc, a publicly traded media company based in Bath, England, and listed on the London Stock Exchange. Future US operates the U.S. edition.
FundingMainly advertising (display and sponsored content), affiliate commissions from product links (hardware and game sales), and magazine sales and subscriptions. It has no state, billionaire or donor funding.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

PC Gamer launched in the UK in November 1993, and a U.S. edition followed in mid-1994. Future's U.S. arm, then called Imagine Media and now Future US, published the American edition. In 1999 the U.S. edition bought its rival PC Games and merged that staff into its own. Today the brand is one of the larger PC-focused outlets in Future plc's portfolio of more than 250 brands, which also includes GamesRadar+ and TechRadar. Its income depends on advertising, affiliate links and print sales, so critics sometimes question how closely review and buying-guide coverage tracks commercial incentives. Like the wider games press, it has faced industry-wide job cuts and the shift from print to web, and its U.S. print magazine has been criticized by some readers for declining in size and depth. Editorially it is aimed at PC gamers and focuses on reviews, hardware guides, news and features. It rarely covers politics directly. When it does, such as its tariff reporting since 2025, it usually cites industry groups like the Entertainment Software Association and describes price and supply effects on PC components and games, which reads as critical of the tariffs without being partisan commentary.

Sources

  1. PC Gamer (Wikipedia)
  2. Future US (Wikipedia)
  3. About PC Gamer
  4. Here's how US tariffs have affected PC gaming hardware, from paused shipments to new investments (PC Gamer)
  5. Gaming's largest lobbying group says Trump's tariffs 'would negatively impact hundreds of millions of Americans' (PC Gamer)

Profile compiled 2026-11-03; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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