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Patrick Ferrell founded GamePro magazine in late 1988 with his sister-in-law Leeanne McDermott and the husband-wife design team of Michael and Lynne Kavish. The magazine was initially a small operation that quickly grew into a major publication based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The first issue of GamePro was published in April 1989 and featured a cover by Marc Ericksen. This issue included a fictional comic strip titled Adventures of Gamepro that ran in the magazine's early days.
GamePro initially used five categories for ratings including Graphics, Sound, Gameplay, FunFactor, and Challenge on a scale of 1.0 to 5.0. Later the system changed to a single overall rating on a scale of 1.0 to 5.0 stars with no game ever receiving less than one star.
GamePro.com was officially launched in 1998 and included feature articles, news, previews, reviews, screenshots, and videos covering video games and hardware. The website also included user content such as forums, reviews, and blogs before being redesigned in January 2010.
GamePro announced on November 30 that it would shut down on the 5th of December 2011 after ending monthly publication with its October 2011 issue. The magazine then became part of the PC World website as a small section covering the latest video games.