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Turkish video game magazine
Oyungezer
is a Turkish
video game
magazine
published monthly.
History
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Oyungezer
was launched by the former editors of the Turkish edition of
LeveL
. The editors, after spending a month in recluse, announced the launch of the Oyungezer website and its subsequent forums, with the first issue released in November 2007.
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It sold roughly 7,000 copies upon release, which was a record for a first-time issue of a gaming magazine.
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Sections
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Oyungezer
has five distinct sections separated by content:
- A preview section titled 360 drc, edited by Furkan Faruk Akıncı, which focuses on the major new releases of the month.
- A strategy guide edited by the Guven brothers, which offers tips and information concerning a particular game.
- Ekran Dı?ı (
Out of the Screen
), an entertainment section edited by Damla Pınar Gok. It reviews recently released non-gaming entertainment products, mostly consisting of book, album, and movie reviews. It also hosts reader mail-ins, editor columns, and famed editor Goktu? Yuksel's personal N.E.M. page.
- Organize Sanayi (
Organized Industry
), a section focused on hardware.
- Pixel, a retro gaming-focused section.
Special issues
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Review system
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Oyungezer
reviews are scored between 0.0 and 10.0. The highest score in the magazine was a 9.9 given to
Grand Theft Auto IV
by Tu?bek Olek and
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
by Umut Yanık in the November 2008 issue.
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The magazine's lowest scores awarded were 1.0, for
The Incredible Hulk
and a 3.0 for
Soldier of Fortune: Payback
, both given by Kaan Alkın.
Other ventures
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Oyungezer's parent company, SET? Yapım ve Yayıncılık has expanded its operations since the inception of the magazine. A sister magazine to Oyungezer, Free-2-Play was released in 2009, focusing on
free-to-play
MMORPGs.
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SET? Yapım ve Yayıncılık has also undertaken the content management of TTNET Oyun, a digital video game distribution platform created by the leading internet service provider in Turkey,
Turk Telekom
. SET?'s other projects (all spearheaded by Oyungezer) include The Game, a gaming lobby at the Point Hotel Barbaros in
Istanbul
, METUTECH-ATOM, a video game development center placed inside the
METU
, and the
Electronic Sports League
.
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Notes
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External links
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