Gamers.at

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Gamers.at

description Computer games magazine
publishing company consol.MEDIA
First edition November 18, 2005
attitude October 28, 2013
Frequency of publication eight times a year
Sold edition 32,000 copies
(Publisher's information)
Editor-in-chief Thomas Cap
editor Michael Furtenbach
ZDB 2385619-1

The Gamers.at (short GAT) was an Austrian computer games magazine that the consol.MEDIA-Verlag from Vienna was issued. Gamers.at appeared eight times a year. It had around 108 pages per issue, depending on the number of games published and other game-related topics. After the publisher consol.MEDIA filed for bankruptcy in early November 2013, the magazine was discontinued. However, Gamers.at has existed as an online magazine since 1999 and continues to operate online even after the print medium was discontinued.

history

Gamers.at started in December 1999 as a purely online magazine with a focus on news and community, making it the oldest Austrian gaming website still in existence. Articles and downloads were later added to the website and relaunched in 2002 with a new design. In 2003, columns and game tests by Gamers.at appeared regularly in the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse .

In September 2005 Gamers.at merged with consol.MEDIA-Verlag, which already had experience in the print sector with the Consol.at magazine . On November 18 of that year, the first printed edition appeared as a multi-platform magazine with a focus on the typical lifestyle of gamers - not just news, tests and previews, but also music, comics and books.

After initially four issues a year, the number that was published in 2007 was increased to six per year. From 2010 this frequency will increase to eight issues per year. At the beginning of 2008 the decision was made to continue the print edition as a pure PC magazine, after console tests had only been offered as a look outside the box the year before. Online Gamers.at, however, remained a multi-platform magazine. On December 12, 2008, the Gamers website was revised again.

After a difficult six months in 2013, consol.MEDIA Verlag had to file for bankruptcy at the beginning of November 2013 and the publisher was dissolved. Thus the license agreement is also terminated and the online portal was taken over again by Hannes Linsbauer and Andy Weinberger and realigned at the beginning of 2014 and put back online.

GamersPlus

GamersPLUS

description Computer games magazine
publishing company consol.MEDIA
First edition October 24, 2008
attitude 2010
Frequency of publication eight times a year
Sold edition 60,000 copies
(Publisher's information)
Editor-in-chief Thomas Cap
ZDB 2462917-0

In 2008, a version of the magazine for Germany and Switzerland was launched in cooperation with Panini Verlag . The first issue of GamersPLUS was published on October 24th with a circulation of 150,000, which has since been reduced to 60,000. The main difference between the magazines is that for the German market, legal requirements are taken into account and country-specific content is offered ( e.g. in e-sports ) and the coverage of titles not published in Germany is limited (e.g. there were there is no rating for Aliens versus Predator ). The cooperation with Panini was dissolved in 2010, so GamersPLUS was published like Gamers.at via consol.MEDIA from the July issue until it was dissolved in November 2013.

content

The most important categories of the print edition of Gamers.at or GamersPLUS were:

  • the latest news from the PC game scene
  • News from the eSports sector
  • Specials on topics that interest gamers but do not necessarily have to do with PC games
  • Previews of PC titles that are still in development
  • Tests of current PC computer games
  • a hardware department with news and articles about current developments in the hardware sector
  • the offtopic area where about movies , comics , books and board games is reported
  • a retro report on game highlights from yesteryear
  • a magazine section with letters to the editor, a comic and a preview of the next issue

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gamers.at/kontakt/geschichte
  2. ↑ http://www.gamers.at/kontakt/geschichte
  3. ↑ http://www.gamers.at/kontakt/geschichte
  4. ↑ Media data PLUS ( Memento from November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )