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VIDEO GAME MAGAZINES
By Sabrina Del Rey
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Slogan
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The Masthead
“The world’s
#1 Computer
and Video
Game
Magazine”
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MASTHEAD
Game informer changes the color of their masthead to match the
main image. They also sometimes cover part of the masthead with
the central image. The font also alternates between the two different
ones shown on the next slide.
They also change the name of the
magazine on April 1st for an April
fools day joke.
AUDIENCE PROFILE
STORY TYPE
Gameinformer Magazine has articles describing new videos games
from all genres and all systems. It also gives some inside knowledge
of the games and reviews.
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MASTHEAD
Playstation Magazine’s masthead alternates mostly between black and
white and occasionally changes to either red or blue. The masthead is
sometimes covered by the main image.
AUDIENCE PROFILE
The magazines target demographic is teenage to adult males but has
in recent years has expanded to not target towards specifically that
gender. The magazine is centered in the UK.
STORY TYPE
Playstation Magazine is a video game magazine targeted specially
towards Playstation users. It talks only of games for the Playstation
systems.
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The colors of the actual masthead remain the same but the color
behind “PC” in PC Gamer changes between red and white causing
PC to change accordingly.
AUDIENCE PROFILE
PC Gamer has said that they are going for a broad audience of
anyone who plays computer games.
STORY TYPE
PC Gamer has stories specifically for pc or computer games. The
magazine only discuses the newest pc games but does so from all
genres and manufactures.
REFLECTION
I have decided to consider this type of magazine as one of my
options but, based on how difficult it will be to find a central image I
will probably choose a different genre to work on.
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