Kotaku: Magazine

Girls Plus Hardware Equals Hardware Girls

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:15:00 EST

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Photographer and pin-up model Julie Watai, whom Kotaku has featured before, is releasing a magazine version of her Hardware Girls photos. More »

Here's The New GamePro Mag: It's Quarterly, Bigger and "Kicks a Lot of Ass"

Brian Crecente — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:28:57 EST

GamePro magazine recently went quarterly but that doesn't mean you should count it out. The folks over at GamePro just dropped their cover on the net, saying that the new "periodical" is the last great video game magazine. More »

Killzone 2 Review Party Crashed By Edge Bullies

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:30:18 EST

Things seem to have been going smashingly on the Killzone 2 review front. Outlet after outlet has bestowed its highest honors upon the highly anticipated PlayStation 3 shooter. And then there was Edge. More »

Rumor Gamecock Founder Looking to Jump From Developer to Mag Publisher

Brian Crecente — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:00:00 EST

Gamecock founder Mike Wilson has been in talks with the owner of eBay-listed gaming magazine Hardcore Gamer about a potential purchase, Wilson confirmed to Kotaku today. More »

Is This The Last PS2 Game Magazine Cover?

Mike Fahey — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:40:00 EST

Who would have thought that this late in the console's life cycle that a PlayStation 2 game would make the cover of a major gaming publication? The latest issue of Play magazine features Atlus' upcoming RPG Persona 4, with a whole slew of special Shin Megami Tensei-themed features packed inside. It's really an odd sight to see, especially considering the other games listed in the top-right corner of the cover - Afro Samurai, Mirror's Edge, Resistance 2, Sonic Unleashed, and Prince of Persia - all big name, current generation titles. More »

Win Imagine Babies From Girl Gamer Mag

Mike Fahey — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:20:58 EST

Hey girls! The second issue of Future's Girl Gamer - the UK's first Nintendo-centric games magazine for girls - is coming this March, and have they got a contest for you! Within the pages the pink titled magazine with its pink DS sporting cover girl is a giveaway that you can't afford to pass up, considering your unique role in populating the planet. They're giving away 10 copies of Ubisoft's ~~pet~~ baby simulator, Imagine Babies, along with a shiny new and most likely pink DS to play it on. Combine it with the cover story on Cooking Mama, and you'll snag yourself a husband of strong breeding stock in no time! Hit the jump for the cover in all its glory, along with a little more exposition. More »

Exclusive EQII Item In Massive Online Gamer

Mike Fahey — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:20:37 EST

The latest issue of Beckett Massive Online Gamer magazine should be out wherever fine bookstores see fit to carry it, and inside you could very well find a key code that unlocks a special in-game item in EQ2 - an animated portrait of Venril Sathir. I'm sure it will make an excellent conversation piece during your many in-game social events. Um, yes. I know it's a silly little portrait, but fans of the game go nuts over this sort of thing. I played the game for a year and never once had anyone else in my house, but trust me, it was full of magical wonders the likes of which you had never seen, which made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. The promotion itself is interesting. Free in-game stuff is an awesome marketing tool. Can you imagine if Blizzard put random free junk codes in boxes of Rice Krispies? The world's children would be forced to eat store brand rice cereal out of a resealable plastic bag. Hit the jump for details on the special issue, which many or many not require subscribing to the magazine itself. More »

Nintendo Power Commercial

fdemarco — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:00:00 EST

Another little treat from RetroGameVideos.com. Back in the days when they used to advertise magazine subscriptions on TV comes this seizure inducing commercial for Nintendo Power magazine. I've said it before and I'll say it again the eighties may have sucked in a lot of ways, but the video game (and related) commercials are the stuff dreams are made of however twisted those dreams may be. Get the power! More »

Playstation The Official Magazine Returns

Brian Crecente — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:27 EDT

OPM rises again this November with a new set of letters and a brand new publisher. Exactly one year after Ziff-Davis set Official Playstation Magazine adrift into the sea of dead print media, Future U.S. will relaunch Playstation: The Official Magazine. More »

Playboy Coming to Second Life

Kim Phu — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:40:00 EDT

Playboy magazine is opening up shop in Second Life to everyone's surprise ("Playboy isn't in Second Life?"). Although it's unclear what form the Playboy presence will have in the virtual world, as a brand this is a very modern step for Hugh Heffner and his girls. Unlike most of the companies who have set up shop in SL, Playboy seems like it would fit in with community quite seamlessly and they are getting into the virtual business at the perfect time. More »

Cerise, The Mag For Women Gamers

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:20:16 EDT

The Iris Gaming Network and a pool of contributors largely consisting of gamers of the female persuasion have launched Cerise, an online publication envisioned as "a resource by and for women gamers." The planned monthly online mag covers not only videogames, but tabletop games and live action role-playing, aka larping. More »

OPM UK Gets Monthly Blu-Ray

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:20:36 EDT

While the Official U.S. PlayStation magazine is dead and gone, the UK version of OPM marches onward, chin proudly held up by the announcement of the world's first monthly playable Blu-ray disc. More »

Load Magazine Hits PSP

Brian Crecente — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:00:37 EDT

PSP World reports that Load magazine is now available in a downloadable jpeg format formatted to fit on your Playstation Portable. More »

Wiki Rolls Out "Open-Source" Online Game Magazine

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:00:16 EDT

The man who brought us Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, is bringing us an "open-source magazine" about video games called "Gaming Wikia." Actually, there are four of these Wikia "magazines" — Music, cars, health and, as previously mentioned, games. Wired's Chris Kohler puts it best: Think NeoGAF, but run amock and with the abilities to edit content. Says company V.P. Dan Lewis, More »

Edge is Hiring

Brian Crecente — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:00:33 EST

If you're looking to write about videogames for a living, Edge magazine would certainly be one of the better places to do it. More »

Kotaku Magu: Perrin Says Nintendo Is "Profit Oriented"

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:22:49 EST

Don't let Mario's overalls fool you, Nintendo likes money just as the next console maker. No surprises there — Memories do come flooding back to when Nintendo announced Wii pricing and many flipped out at parting with US $250 as opposed to the rumored $199. Newsweek's got a piece up on the Wii about demand for the machine, the radio contest fiasco and a few blurbs from Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan. Regarding the contest, Kaplan offered her condolences and stressed that Nintendo had nothing to do with it. Regarding the shortages, she said: More »

The Escapist: Editor's Choice Issue

fdemarco — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:20:29 EST

If you've never read The Escapist, you really owe it to yourself to check them out. As a matter of fact, you might have already seen mention of them in Mc Whertor's recent One Man's Descent Into Gaming Gender Bending article yesterday. More »

Glamour Magazine: Girls Luv Playing With Wii

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:22:31 EST

If you're not getting all your gaming news from Glamour magazine—and really, why aren't you— then you could've missed this big spread on the new console. Between articles on "why the wrong man can be so right for you," comes word that the Wii is fem-friendly. Here are five reasons why: More »

Halo 3 Details and Scans

Brian Crecente — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:50:50 EDT

We've had a bunch of emails in the past hour about a Swedish magazine that managed to spill a lot o details about Halo 3, but since Video Games Blogger managed to get their grubby paws on the thing and scan in the article, I think it's best to link to them. More »

CGW Gets Renamed, Free Computer

Brian Crecente — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:19:57 EDT

Ziff-Davis is teaming up with Microsoft to spin Computer Gaming World magazine into Games for Windows: The Official Magazine. ZD says the magazine and an online site will launch this fall. More »

1Up, EGM, Other ZD's for Sale?

Brian Crecente — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:57:29 EDT

Just two weeks ago I was hearing rumblings that Ziff Davis was having some cash flow problems. Today comes news, buried in the company's second quarter report, that ZD has hired financial advisors to assist in the possible sale of same or all of their "groups." More »

Nintendo Power's Famous Contests

Brian Crecente — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:00:31 EDT

Error Macro takes a look at the one consistent feature that showed up in every issue of Nintendo Power without fail: The contests. More »

Ready Made Covers Arty Hacker Dude

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:22:10 EDT

D.I.Y. bible and one of my side gigs Ready Made Magazine has a cool feature in its latest issue on Brooklyn-based digital artist Cory Arcangel. Regular Kotaku readers might be familiar with Arcangel's landscapes, which we covered a while back. He's also famous for a series of NES cartridge hacks like Mario clouds and slo-mo Tetris. The Ready Made article does a good job of fleshing out why Arcangel's one of the most important young American artists. Worth checking out. —Brian Ashcraft More »

The Escapist Running Dry?

Brian Crecente — Wed, 17 May 2006 07:00:50 EDT

They are not even through their so far flawless first year and The Escapist has already decided to fill a week with a "Best Of" issue. I don't know about you, but every time I saw one of these best of clip-jobs show up in my favorite sitcom I knew the show had inched one step closer to the reruns grave. More »

New Nintendo Mag From Edge Eds

Brian Crecente — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:23:49 EDT

Edge Magazine editor Tony Mott will be launching a new unofficial Nintendo magazine. The yet to be names mag will be put out by Future Publishing. More »

Will Wright Edits Wired's Game Issue

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:40:13 EST

Sims creator Will Wright guest-edited this month's Wired, which takes an in depth look at gaming with pieces on WoW as job training and the emotions of pet simulators like Nintendogs. In an editorial entitled "Dream Machines," Wright writes, "Games have the potential to subsume almost all other forms of entertainment media. They can tell us stories, offer us music, give us challenges, allow us to communicate and interact with others, encourage us to make things, connect us to new communities, and let us play. Unlike most other forms of media, games are inherently malleable." Intelligent stuff and worth checking out. I also have a short piece on Dokaka — the Japanese beatboxer who did the We *heart* Katamari soundtrack. More »

Massively Multiplayer Magazine Materializing Momentarily

kotaku.com — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:40:00 EST

Gamasutra is reporting that Computer Games Magazine is producing a spinnoff called Massive, which will be all about MMOs and the people who love them. Downside: Print publications aren't exactly up-to-the minute, and that goes double for quarterlies. Upside: No hundred-post message board threads about how Shamans are overpowered. More »

Hardcore Zelda? Yeah, Right

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:22:09 EST

Gawd. Here's another example of pervy journos putting pervy words into people's mouths, bad translating and off-the-wall questions. This one's from Maxim (big surprise). More »

Where Did All of the Good Game Mags Go?

Brian Crecente — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:00:06 EST

In preparation for my new game writing gig at the Rocky Mountain News, I've been poring over the month's game mags looking to see what sorts of things they do in the way of features and such. Leafing through four magazines I found a grand total of three story ideas, which I think says a lot about the state of today's game magazines. More »

Otaku's "Elite" Git Own Magazine

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:20:20 EST

In the past, the term "otaku" was seen in a negative light. To get an idea of how things have changed, check out Otaku Elite magazine. The first issue will be on newsstands in late December and features the chief secretary of Japan's most powerful political party. Other articles examine an "Otaku Elite" training plan at the prestigious University of Tokyo, a House of Representatives manga and a look into video games. There's even a maid contest. More »

Retro Game Mag Scans

Brian Crecente — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:27:37 EST

A reader who goes by the name of Numlok has started a Flickr gallery of a bunch of old video game magazine scans. There s some excellent nostalgia buried in there. But nothing beats Journey. More »

First Superman Screenshot?

Brian Crecente — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:00:04 EDT

Looks like Game Informer will be showcasing Superman in its upcoming issue. From the cover: Superman Returns. Can Electronic Arts & Tiburon Save the Man of Steel From His Dark Video Game Past. I can't tell if the cover is a screenshot, FMV capture or just artwork. More »

Missed Mario Time Peg

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:22:23 EDT

Think everything comes out first in Japan? Think again. Today, I picked up this TV Guide type magazine, which went on sale October 1st. The cover mentions Mario's 20th Anniversary and the Mirco's launch. Uh, hello? That happened last month. More »

Morgan Webb Gets FHM Gig

Brian Crecente — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:26:49 EDT

Morgan Webb, of G4's X-Play sorta fame, has a new monthly column in FHM. She'll be answering questions about gaming More »

Maxim Gets Its Game On

Brian Crecente — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:29:35 EDT

Maxim is planning to giveaway a DVD loaded with PC demos and video trailers of console games with an upcoming issue of the men's mag. The DVD will be mounted to the cover of the mag and will become a quarterly staple, if it proves successful. More »