GameStar
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| Editor-in-Chief | Heiko Klinge |
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| Former editors | Jochen Gebauer, Michael Trier, Gunnar Lott |
| Circulation | 63.189 (01/2015) |
| Publisher | Webedia |
| Founder | Jörg Langer |
| Year founded | 1997 |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Website |
www.gamestar.de Germany www.gamestar.com US |
| OCLC number | 315108087 |
www.gamestar.de Germany
GameStar is a monthly released PC computer game magazine in Germany. Gamestar is the best sold German language magazine focused on PC gaming and it also hosts the largest videogaming related portal in the German speaking internet.
The print magazine features the following content:
The magazine also comes with a DVD, which features Demos, Mods, video-reviews as well as a full retail version of a videogame.
Gamestar has been in published in various versions with different features. This includes the magazine version (which does not include any DVDs and is thus cheaper), a "normal" edition, which includes one DVD, and a XL Version, which contains 2 DVDs. The magazine for subscribers has less advertisement and shows a larger front-page picture. Until mid-2005 a CD-only version was also available, but it was decided that DVD-readers in Computers had become widespread enough, and so the CD-version was deemed unnecessary. Instead the XL version appeared for the first time.
Gamestar was founded by Charles Glimm, Jörg Langer und Toni Schwaiger with the IDG Entertainment Media GmbH as publisher in 1997, with Jörg Langer as editor-in-chief.
The new magazine soon gained a lot of popularity. By the fourth quarter of 1999 it sold about 331.535 issues per month, in 2000 it overtook competitor PC Games as the largest German language videogames magazine in Europe.
IDG also started GameStar sister magazines in Italy, Poland, Hungary and the United States. The US version was, quite differently from the rest, positioned as a magazine for adults, about PC and console games, similar to inCite. However they all folded after a few months due to disappointing sales. The only long term launch was achieved in Hungary. In 2005, GameStar spawned a sister magazine called /GameStar/dev which is targeted at European Game Developers. GameStar also has a sister magazine named GamePro, which focuses on console games. Incidentally its headquarters are right next-door to the GameStar office.
In April 2015 GameStar and its sister magazine GamePro were sold by IDG to the French publisher Webedia.
Jörg Langer was succeeded by Gunnar Lott as editor-in-chief, followed by Michael Trier on 1 December 2007. As of June 2016, editor-in-Chief is Heiko Klinge.
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