VIDEO GAME MAGAZINES

By Sabrina Del Rey

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“The world’s

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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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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.