Play (PRC magazine)

Jiāyòng Diànnǎo Yǔ Yóuxì
Editor Liu Wei[1]
Categories Video games
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 185,000[2]
Publisher Popular Science Press
First issue June 1994
Final issue
— Number
Dec. 2013
231[3][4]
Country China
Language Mandarin Chinese
ISSN 1009-6183

Play (simplified Chinese: 家用电脑与游戏; pinyin: Jiāyòng Diànnǎo Yǔ Yóuxì; literally: "Home Computer Game") was a Chinese game-and-software oriented magazine founded in October 1993[3][4] and first officially published in June 1994 by Popular Science Press (科学普及出版社; Kēxué Pŭjí Chūbănshè). The magazine was originally named Jiāyòng Diànnǎo Yǔ Yóuxìjī (家用电脑与游戏机; lit. "Home Computer and Game Console"), and focused on both PC games and console games. In January 2001 it was renamed to its current name and its coverage shifted to focus on PC games exclusively, making it the first specialized PC gaming magazine in China.[5] Subsequently Play became one of the most important gaming magazines in mainland China.[6]

Following only one year after the closure of the prominent journal Diànzǐ Yóuxì Ruǎnjiàn, the shutdown of Play after nearly 20 years of continual publication has been regarded in context with the earlier shutdown of big-name Western magazines like Electronic Gaming Monthly, GamePro, and Nintendo Power as an example of the global nature of the decline in printed publications.[1]

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