Cheating power
| Mogelpower.de | |
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| Description: | Online magazine |
| Operator: | The writing factory - publication work |
| Editor: | René Meyer |
| Founding: | 1998, as a 1994 book series |
| Range: | 1.5 million visitors per month |
| Website: | www.mogelpower.de |
Mogelpower is a German online magazine with a search engine for computer games and is based on a book series of the same name. The website focuses on tricks, cheats and solutions for PC and console games on all platforms. The collection has been queried over 400 million times and has 1.5 million visitors a month.
The operator is the Leipzig editorial office Die Schreibfabrik ; The Haus der Computerspiele traveling museum was created from the website's working archive .
history
The starting point for the website is the book series of the same name from the Markt & Technik publishing house . Since 1994, the Leipzig trade journalists René Meyer and Sven Letzel have published around thirty MogelPower books with cheat codes . In addition, they issued CD boxes with game solutions and cheat programs.
The authors put the content of the books online in 1998 at www.mogelpower.de . MogelPower is thus one of the first commercial books that was available online for free at the same time.
With two million page impressions, Mogelpower was already one of the most popular game sites in December 2000. In 2003 it was one of the five most visited websites for children and young people.
The database has been expanded to include numerous systems over the years. In addition, thematically appropriate collections and websites have been adopted and integrated, including
- Solution.net , at the time of the takeover in 2001, the most extensive website for German-language game solutions
- Gamebuster's Paradise with codes for the Gamebuster cheat system
- the official code database for the Xploder cheat system
- Keycard HQ with key assignments for games
In 2005 a meta search engine was developed. It complements the search function with hundreds of thousands of links to cheats, solutions, reviews, and news from seventy other websites. The meta search can also be accessed separately at the address Mogelpower.com .
Content
Cheats and solutions
Cheat codes , complete solutions and downloads such as trainers , scores and editors for more than 30,000 games are the focus of the website.
The database has been editorially updated since 1993. It now includes more than sixty systems - PC and Macintosh, current consoles such as PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS as well as numerous classic platforms, from Atari 2600 to Super Nintendo and Commodore 64 to Dreamcast and Neo Geo.
Easter eggs
A section of the website with its own address EasterEggs.de is a collection of Easter Eggs , the hidden gags in software, games, DVDs and CDs. They also appeared as a book.
Forum
With around 2.9 million contributions on around 215,000 topics, Mogelpower hosts one of the largest German discussion forums. Initially it was only about games, but today there are around ninety sub-forums covering discussions ranging from politics to sports to music and film.
other areas
The magazine section offers several hundred short tests, news and screenshots for games. The practice area mainly contains tutorials all about cheating in games. The manually compiled link collection points to 35,000 developers and fan sites of games.
Others
The first edition of the book was titled Die Mogel Spiele Power , with the word games crossed out. It was one of the last books to be released under the label of Power Play magazine . In the third edition in 1996, the simple title Mogel Power was introduced.
In 1998 a licensed edition was published as a Heyne paperback with the title Mogel Power for PC gamers .
At the retro booth at Gamescom 2013, a showcase exhibition about the publishing house Markt & Technik with its book series Mogelpower and the magazine Power Play was shown.
Web links
- Mogelpower.de
- Article about Mogelpower.de - Jörg Aberger on Stern.de: The King of Cheaters (website with forced advertising)
- Article about MogelPower.de - Focus.de: One click to invincibility - cheating tricks for computer games
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.mogelpower.de/ueber/
- ↑ http://www.mogelpower.de/ueber/geschichte/
- ↑ http://www.ndrei.de/index6.htm ( Memento from January 26, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.nielsen-online.com/pr/pr_031009_germany.pdf
- ↑ http://www.mogelpower.de/forum/
- ↑ http://www.mogelpower.de/verweise/fanseiten/index.php