Magazine Project Genre Reshearch - Retro Gamer



The cover for this issue of Retro Gamer is very action packed in a sense, there are words all over the page along with a very detailed image of a character. There are a bunch of sub headings all over the page telling you about what is going to be seen through out the magazine. Retro Gamer talks a lot about upcoming games, games that have already been out, and updates to current games, along with plenty of reviews of any popular and or current games. Retro Gamers runs for merchandise and other things that are sold exclusively by Retro Gamer. All of the images that you find inside of the magazine are screen captures of games along with pictures of players and games taken in the real world. Retro Gamer won gamesTM and Edge awards for Best Magazine at the 2010 Games Media Awards.


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