Games™

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Issue 94 (March 2010) of GamesTM featuring Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption
Editor	Jon Gordon
Staff writers	Josh West
Categories	Computer and video games
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	20,013 (Jan 09 - Dec 09) 21,677 (Jan 08 - Dec 08) 22,284 (Jan 07 - Dec 07) 20,376 (Jan 06 - Dec 06)
First issue	December 2002
Company	Future Publishing
Country	England
Based in	Richmond House 33 Richmond Hill Bournemouth
Language	English, German, Dutch (defunct)
Website	http://www.gamestm.co.uk/
ISSN	1478-5889

GamesTM (styled as games^TM) is a UK-based, multi-format video games magazine, covering console, handheld, PC and Arcade games. The first issue was released in December 2002 and the magazine is still being published monthly in English and German.

Besides covering all current and recent happenings in the video game world, the magazine includes a retro section at the rear, with reviews of past games and "battles" between older consoles.

As a standard,

it is 112 pages long. News articles, developer interviews and the like are located at the front, with the preview section following. After the previews there is usually a large feature focused on a particular game or games company. This feature normally lasts 4 to 5 pages. The section for readers' letters follows, at the end of the magazine.

Since it is a multi-format magazine, a large number of games on all formats are reviewed, although the majority of games that are released are not reviewed because of space and deadline restrictions.

Reviewed games are given an overall score marked out of 10. While several games have received 9/10, only fifteen games in the magazine's history have achieved the ultimate score of 10:

In addition, the online modes of Project Gotham Racing 2, Halo 3, LittleBigPlanet, Monster Hunter Tri and Halo: Reach all scored a 10, although the single-player of each title only received an 8 or 9.

The magazine has also started to review game related hardware on occasion as well as aspects of Xbox Live. These typically include games available for purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace and various retail games with Live functionality.