PC PowerPlay focuses on news and reviews for upcoming and newly released games on the Microsoft Windows platform.

Under the previous percentage system, only Wolfenstein 3D ever received 100% (retroactively via a re-release in 1998 since the game was originally released prior to PC PowerPlay's first issue).

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.

The general discussion section of the PCPP Forum is titled "Rhubarb", because of editor Anthony Fordham's love of the old British joke of having extras in movie crowd scenes say "rhubarbrhubarbrhubarb" to simulate incidental conversation.

The transition to the CyberGamer forums was considered by the community to have been handled badly and on 12 August 2010, PC PowerPlay's then-editor, Anthony Fordham, announced that the PCPP Forums would revert to the old vBulletin software, stating that the PC PowerPlay community were not happy with the current CyberGamer software.

The forum was eventually closed in December 2017 as costs to run the server and the dwindling userbase made it uneconomical to continue.

The August 1998 cover disc of PC PowerPlay was infected with the Marburg virus, causing the magazine to apologise in the following issue and give away antivirus software from Kaspersky Lab.

[6] Marburg was also spread by a PC Gamer cover disc and WarGames: Defcon 1 in the same year, which CNN Money stated caused the malware to become a "widespread threat".

[7][8] From April to December 2002 the DVD-ROM edition of PC PowerPlay also contained one episode of an Anime show that was licensed and distributed in Australia by Madman Entertainment such as Boogiepop Phantom,[9] Love Hina,[10] Mobile Suit Gundam Wing,[11] and Sorcerous Stabber Orphen.

The Bunker was a section of the DVD-ROM originally compiled each month by "ROM", a respected member of the PCPP online community.