It was issued monthly by Future plc in Bath, Somerset,[1] and was backed by a marketing budget of £50 thousand.

In October 1999, two months before the release of the first issue, Binns explained that Planet PC would fill a gap seen as "too old and ... too expensive for [the] younger market".

[2] Every issue of Planet PC came with a free CD that featured several game demos.

The first three editions of Planet PC contained an exclusive Top Trumps trading card game.

Issue nine was released with four different covers, each depicting a different character from the television series Pokémon: Charizard, Ash Ketchum & Pikachu, Squirtle or Team Rocket.