SKOAR!

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SKOAR!
Sep-Nov 2006 issue
Editor	Badri Narayan
Categories	Computer magazines
Frequency	Bi-Monthly
Publisher	Maulik Jasubhai
First issue	February 2003
Company	Jasubhai Digital Media
Country	India
Language	English
Website	SKOAR!

SKOAR! is an Indian magazine devoted exclusively to computer games. SKOAR! was founded in 2003 by Jasubhai Digital Media(JDM) Pvt Ltd as a bi-monthly publication. All the games reviewed till date by SKOAR! are available on their website

SKOAR was launched as a sister publication to Digit as being dedicated to more hardcore gaming issues [1]. It is thus a more specialist magazine than Digit. The tagline of SKOAR! is "...When its done".

1 Sections
2 The Tagline
3 The SKOAR! expo
4 Criticism
5 =

[edit] Sections

SKOAR! features "we've got incoming", "phurstluk", "reevus", "pheachurs", "haadwear", "doo it urcelph" and "poynt off vu" sections dealing with computer as well as console games. The games are rated on the basis of visual appeal, sound, gameplay and mojo factor and employ a horizontal bar with a maximum rating of 10.

[edit] The Tagline

The tagline of SKOAR! is ...When its done. It was created by Badri Narayan because he was pestered with mails pertaining questions on the release of the next issue.

[edit] The SKOAR! expo

SKOAR! has been arranging gaming expos in metropolitans of India. As of 30th Jan 2008 it has conducted 4 expos. The first expo was held in Mumbai, the second one in Bangalore and a third one was held in January 2007 in Delhi.

The fourth expo was conducted in Mumbai at MMRDA grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex and spanned three days (25th to 27th January 2008).

[edit] Criticism

[edit] Piracy

Skoar! has been including full version pirated games in their DVDs. Skoar! denies this fact however, claiming that the games are abandonware even though these games are still being sold at well known shopping stores including online sites like Amazon.com. The DVDs they provide also contain keygens and No-CD crack for the games they provide, some of the games previously included in the DVDs were Call of Duty^[1], Mafia, Half Life, Rayman 1 and many others. The march 2007 issue also featured the first-person shooter game, Max Payne with its crack . The recent August 2007 issue^[2] contained full versions of NFS^[3], Quake 2^[4],Thief 1 and Thief 2 along with their No-CD crack. ^[5]

[edit] Abusive language use

The editor of Skoar, 'Badri Narayan' replies to the readers' letters with swear words and mockery.They have even created a section called "retard of the month" to feature the most hated letter of him.It is also alleged that most of the letters are fake, created in order to raise publicity and a look of style.

[edit] Editing writers' articles without informing

The game articles like reviews,priews etc. are edited by staff without informing the freelancer writers of this, to include more vulgar language and change the intended outlook of the write-up. This is done often and has led to a loss of popularity of the magazine.