| Editor | Tim Lindquist |
|---|---|
| Categories | Computing, Gaming, Computer magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly from 2005–2007 Quarterly from 2008–present |
| First issue | June 2005 |
| Company | DoubleJump Books |
| Country | United States, Canada |
| Language | English |
| Website | Hardcore Gamer Online |
| ISSN | 19362110 |
Hardcore Gamer magazine is an American video game magazine published by Robert Kotick. First published in 2005, Hardcore Gamer has had over 30 issues published and has since spawned a website, Hardcore Gamer.
Hardcore Gamer concentrates on "hardcore" or niche video games titles, such as Peggle and Minecraft. Every issue contains specialty features which differ from what more mainstream magazines generally cover. The Graveyard feature, for instance, covers forgotten retro games. Although usually focusing on specialty games, Hardcore Gamer has featured cover stories for larger releases such as Dead Space and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
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Hardcore Gamer magazine printed its first issue in June 2005. While most magazines were strictly print, Hardcore Gamer offered free copies of every issue in PDF file format in addition to the hard copies. Until April 2007, nearly every issue's cover was hand drawn. Beginning in 2008, Hardcore Gamer changed its format. Switching from monthly to quarterly, Hardcore Gamer shifted their review coverage to the newly launched website, Hardcore Gamer Online. In addition to the change of format, Hardcore Gamer's logo was changed and the magazine began to be referred to as simply Hardcore Gamer. On January 6, 2009, the gaming blog Kotaku[1] reported that Hardcore Gamer was listed for sale on auction website eBay.[2] It was listed with a starting bid of US $42,000.00. The auction was ended early by the seller on January 13, 2009 at 15:57:21 PST. The listing had indicated that if no buyer was found, the magazine would continue to be published.
Many call Hardcore Gamer the spiritual successor to the popular 1990s magazine GameFan. Tim Schafer, the founder of Hardcore Gamer, co-founded GameFan with Dave Halverson. Both magazines have an emphasis on the hardcore gaming community and feature article layouts stylistically embedded with images. In addition to Tim Lindquist, Terry Wolfinger and Greg Off, who were key staff of GameFan, both work on Hardcore Gamer.