Gameplay magazine

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Gameplay

Type	Video game magazine
Format	Paper magazine

Owner	Sergey Arabadji
Publisher	ITC Publishing
Editor	Sergey Galyonkin
Founded	August 2005
Language	Russian
Price	12 hrn (US$2.4) with DVD
Headquarters	Kiev, Ukraine
Circulation	25 000

Website: gameplay.com.ua

Gameplay - magazine about computer and video games, published in Ukraine by ITC Publishing since August 2005. Current circulation (as for October 2006) is 25 000.

1 Staff
2 Magazine content
3 Controversy
4 External links

[edit] Staff

Notable writers for the magazine include Editor-in-Chief Sergey Galyonkin (often referred as Segal), editors Anna Zinchenko and Alina Zhigunova, authors Oleg Ovsienko, Mikhail Zinchenko, Yaroslav Singayevsky and Igor Klimovsky.

[edit] Magazine content

Gameplay is best known for its "Evolution of genres" series of articles, that describes history and evolution of computer and video games for past 30 years.

Each april issue carries a theme "Our games" and writes about most game developers studios, situated in Ukraine.

Also, Gameplay publishes previews, reviews, interviews and such - as most of gaming press do.

[edit] Controversy

Some readers note, that Gameplay gives a lot of attention to video games, sometimes giving a console games a higher score than to PC games. But editorial boards says, that it is because of higher popularity of PC games in Ukraine, which sometimes is credited to higher level of piracy.