Nintendo Force
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| Categories | Video games |
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| Frequency | Bi-monthly |
| Publisher | NF Publishing, LLC |
| First issue | January 11, 2013 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/ |
Nintendo Force, or NF Magazine, is a bi-monthly magazine that centers upon various Nintendo products such as the Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and Nintendo DS. On December 21, 2012, IGN editor and magazine founder Lucas M. Thomas announced his intention to release the magazine, stating that he had begun to plan for the magazine upon hearing of Nintendo Power's cancellation. The magazine includes staff members from IGN, Nintendojo, Destructoid, 1UP.com, GoNintendo, the writer and founder of the online comic Brawl in the Family, and Nintendo World Report, among others.
Its first issue was released January 11, 2013, hosted under HP's MagCloud service with a price of $17.99 for one print/digital issue and $4.99 for just a digital copy. The debut issue had 80 pages, including a review of Fire Emblem: Awakening and a preview of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon as its main overview.
NF Magazine was created with the intention of "continuing the legacy" of Nintendo's official Nintendo Power magazine after its cancellation in 2012 after 24 years. It does this by focusing primarily on news, reviews, and previews of the latest Nintendo games, as well as interviews with people in the gaming industry. NF Magazine's design is similar to Nintendo Power, including some of the same sections that were a staple in Nintendo Power. The two magazines have many differences, however, both aesthetically and content-wise. Force has a larger section on retro games, and also includes many full-color comics, a feature Nintendo Power used less often in its later issues.
The Inbox section is where fan art and letters sent to the v editors are featured. There are also polls and reader response letters, very similar to Nintendo Power's Pulse section. A column on the second page entitled Don't Anger the Ox serves as a throwback to Power's "Don't Hassle the Hoff", which spotlights editor David Oxford's response to a single letter. The new section with the Ox seems to be much tamer than the original Hoff section in Nintendo Power.
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