Game Face

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Game Face

Area of ​​Expertise Developer magazine
language German
First edition 2003
attitude 2008
Widespread edition 3,000-10,000 copies
Editor-in-chief Peter C. Krell
editor Peter C. Krell
ISSN
ZDB 2124945-3

Game Face was a German-language computer and video game developer magazine .

history

The magazine was founded in May 2003 and was discontinued in February 2008. The circulation fluctuated between 3,000 and 10,000 copies. A total of 25 Game Face issues as well as a special issue for the Games Convention 2005 have been published. In terms of content, the issues dealt with the cultural relevance of computer and video games and questions of development. As part of the first Game Face issues, a complete state-specific infrastructure documentation of the developer landscape in Germany was created. You get an overview of the individual companies that were involved in game production in Germany at the time. Overall, the Game Face editorial team endeavored to understand computer and video games as part of entertainment culture and to formulate their own approach to understand game development in Germany as part of the creative industry .

The authors of Game Face included Malte G. Behrmann , Julian Kücklich , Michael Liebe , Oliver Pilarski , Steve Morell , Sascha Elias and many others. The editor-in-chief was Peter C. Krell . The following worked creatively for Game Face: Anne Rottig, Julia Both, Klaus R. Zimmermann, Rian Heller, Christian Thomas, Dirk Merten, Alex Hatzlhoffer, Vincent Chmiel and many others. Game Face's web TV format was launched in 2006 with Thorsten Wiedemann as the presenter. In 2007 Constantin Rothenburg designed a relaunch of Game Face.

In early 2008, however, the rights to Game Face were bought from the owners of Crytek GmbH in Frankfurt. When the attempt to win the then editor-in-chief Peter C. Krell for a new edition of Game Face failed, the magazine was discontinued until further notice.

The editions of Game Face are archived in the Federal Archives , in the German Kinemathek and in the Green Library of Stanford University and can be viewed there.

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