A video game magazine is a magazine that talks about video games on PC, other computers or video game consoles. These magazines sometimes have demo CDs or DVDs bundled in. A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles on various subjects. ... Computer and video games A screenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game Boy A console game (better known as a video game) is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment, which consists of a moveable image displayed on a screen that is usually controlled and manipulated using a handheld... The tower of a personal computer. ... The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ... The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a video game console. ... Size of CD compared to pencil. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
Some well-known video game magazines include Electronic Gaming Monthly, Edge, GamePro, Nintendo Power, Tips & Tricks, Game Informer and Famitsu. EGM June 2005 cover. ... The cover of Edge issue 146 from February 2005. ... Gamepro is a United States video game magazine. ... The first cover of Nintendo Power featured a clay sculpture of Mario from . ... Tips & Tricks is a United States video game magazine. ... Game Informer (often abbreviated to GI) is a United States-based monthly magazine featuring articles, news, strategy and reviews of popular video games and associated consoles. ... Famitsu (commonly abbreviated in Japanese kana to Fami, ファミ通) is a Japanese video game magazine published by Enterbrain, Inc. ...
Journalistic ethics
The video game press is somewhat controversial for having relatively bad journalistic ethics. There are several complaints addressed against them:
Since the dawn of the Internet, new information about video games has been allowed to disseminate immediately from the company to the end user, disintermediating the role of the video game magazine. This is especially true in the video game industry since information release is carefully controlled, and almost always done via press releases or company website updates. Thus it is very difficult for the video game magazine to have any competitive advantage when it comes to information. To counter this, many magazines enter into formal or informal agreements with a publisher to grant access to exclusive content, in exchange for featuring that content in an issue. This oftentimes creates a conflict of interest between the critical staff of the magazine and the other staff, because upon first encountering the game many critics can know if it is going to be bad, yet per the agreement they must preview the game in a very positive light (upon release of the game the reviewers can then give it a bad review but some consider this too late). This system also tends to favor the large publishers over the smaller ones.
The video game industry spends a large amount of money to entertain video game media. The center of this is the E3 video game convention (a primarily media oriented event), where numerous parties are held.
The computer and video game industry is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sale of video and computer games. ... E³ logo The Electronic Entertainment Expo (or Exposition), commonly known as E³ or E3 , is the worlds largest annual trade show for the computer and video games industry. ...
The first primitive computer and videogames were developed in the 1950s and 1960s and ran on platforms such as oscilloscopes, university mainframes and EDSAC computers.
The popularity of computer and videogames, as a whole, has been increasing steadily ever since the 1984-1987 dropoff caused by the videogame crash of 1983, and the popularity appears to be continuing to increase.
Videogames are made by developers, who can be individuals, but are almost always a team consisting of designers, graphic designers and other artists, programmers, sound designers, musicians, and other technicians.
Feeds |
Contact