Games™

games™
Launch Editor	Simon Phillips
Company	Paragon Publishing Highbury Imagine Publishing Future Publishing
ISSN	1475-1399 1478-5889 (Highbury)
First Date	December 2002
Final Date	December 2018
Total Issues	206

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It was announced on 19 October 2018 that issue 206 would be the last.

Credits

Please see here for a list of people who are credited with working on games™.

Stats

Circulation Figures

Year	Jan-Jun	Jul-Dec
2009	20,013
2010	18,024
2011	15,066
2012	12,608
2013	12,619

Reviews

See here for a list of games reviewed in this magazine.

Issue	Reviews	Avg Score	Highest Score	Highest Scoring Game	Lowest Score	Lowest Scoring Game
1	19	6.6	9	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City	4	Die Hard Vendetta, Medal of Honor: Frontline
2	19	6.3	10	Metroid Prime	3	Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
19	14	6.4	8	RalliSport Challenge 2, Armored Core Nexus, Katamari Damacy	4	Galleon, The Suffering
100	11	7.7	9	Metroid: Other M, Starcraft II	6	Dead Rising 2: Case Zero
101	16	6.4	9	Halo: Reach	2	Quantum Theory
102	20	7.5	9	Fallout: New Vegas, EA Sports MMA, Vanquish, FIFA 11, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift	5	Front Mission Evolved
103	28	6.7	9	Call of Duty: Black Ops, Rock Band 3, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Super Meat Boy, Etrian Odyssey III	2	TV Superstars
109	19	5.8	9	Portal 2, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile	3	Battle: Los Angeles, Super Monkey Ball 3D
110	20	6.8	9	Persona 3 Portable	3	Red Faction: Battlegrounds
111	18	6.3	8	Williams Pinball Classics, Shadows of the Damned, The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character	3	Duke Nukem Forever
112	14	5.9	7	Trenched, The Tiny Bang Story, Major League Baseball 2K11, From Dust, Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012	3	Ape Escape
113	14	7.1	9	Xenoblade Chronicles, Ms. 'Splosion Man, Groove Coaster	4	Call of Juarez: The Cartel
114	20	6.8	9	Dark Souls, Gears of War 3, FIFA 12	4	Bleach: Soul Resurreccion, Bodycount
115	18	6.8	9	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Forza Motorsport 4, Rage	3	X-Men: Destiny
116			9	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Batman: Arkham City	3	Disney Universe
129	31	6.6	9	Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Halo 4, The Unfinished Swan, FTL: Faster Than Light	3	Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
130	21	6.2	9	Far Cry 3	1	Family Guy: BttM
131	24	6.8	9	PlanetSide 2, The Walking Dead, DmC, Baldur's Gate	3	Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper
132	19	7.0	9	Persona 4 Golden, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance	4	Aliens: Colonial Marines
133	15	6.4	9	Luigi's Mansion 2, God of War: Ascension	2	Final Fantasy: All the Bravest
134	20	6.8	10	BioShock Infinite	3	Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
135	16	6.6	9	Fire Emblem: Awakening	3	The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
136	19	6.8	9	The Last of Us	2	The Starship Damrey
156	17	6.5	9	Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, Shin Megami Tensei IV, World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor	3	MX vs. ATV: Supercross
160	17	6.8	9	Pillars of Eternity, Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Life is Strange: Episode 2	4	LA Cops
175	13	7.3	8	Overwatch, Alienation, Total War: Warhammer, Fire Emblem Fates, Severed, The Banner Saga 2, The Climb	6	Battleborn, Homefront: The Revolution, Rugby Challenge 3
186	8	6.6	9	Persona 5	5	Mass Effect: Andromeda, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands
187	13	7.1	9	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	5	The Sexy Brutale, Snake Pass

Other Info

Issue	Release Date	Pages	Price	Editor/Dep. Editor	Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor	Publisher
1	28 November 2002	180	£4.00	Martin Mathers	Simon Phillips	Paragon
2	23 January 2003	180	£4.00	Martin Mathers	Simon Phillips	Paragon
3	20 February 2003
19	20 May 2004	180	£4.00	Martin Mathers	Nick Roberts	Highbury
20	17 June 2004
94		180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
95	15 April 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
96	13 May 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
97	10 June 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
98	8 July 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
99	5 August 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
100	2 September 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
101	30 September 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
102	28 October 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
103	25 November 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
104	23 December 2010	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
105	20 January 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
106	17 February 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
107	17 March 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
108	14 April 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
109	12 May 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
110	9 June 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
111	7 July 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
112	4 August 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
113	1 September 2011	180	£4.50	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
114	29 September 2011	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
115	27 October 2011	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
116	24 November 2011	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
117	22 December 2011	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
118	19 January 2012	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
119	16 February 2012	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
120	15 March 2012	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
121	12 April 2012	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
122	10 May 2012	180	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
123	7 June 2012	164	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
124	5 July 2012	164	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
125	2 August 2012	164	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
126	30 August 2012	164	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
127	27 September 2012	164	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
128	25 October 2012	164	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
129	22 November 2012	164	£5.00	Ashley Day	Rick Porter	Imagine
130	20 December 2012	164	£5.00	N/A	Rick Porter	Imagine
131	17 January 2013	164	£5.00	N/A	Nick Roberts	Imagine
132	14 February 2013	164	£5.00	N/A	Nick Roberts	Imagine
133	14 March 2013	164	£5.00	N/A	Nick Roberts	Imagine
134	11 April 2013	164	£5.00	N/A	Nick Roberts	Imagine
135	9 May 2013	164	£5.00	Samuel Roberts	Nick Roberts	Imagine
136	20 June 2013	164	£5.00	Samuel Roberts	Nick Roberts	Imagine
137	18 July 2013		£5.00			Imagine
156	2 January 2015	164	£5.00	Jonathan Gordon	Ryan King	Imagine
157	5 February 2015		£5.00	Jonathan Gordon	Ryan King	Imagine
160	23 April 2015	148	£5.00	Jonathan Gordon	Ryan King	Imagine
161	21 May 2015			Jonathan Gordon		Imagine
175	16 June 2016	116	£5.00	Jonathan Gordon	Dan Hutchinson	Imagine
176	14 July 2016			Jonathan Gordon
186	20 April 2017	116		Jonathan Gordon	Tony Mott	Future
187	18 May 2017	116		Jonathan Gordon	Tony Mott	Future
188	15 June 2017

Issue Index

Games™ Index

Date	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Xmas
2002												1
2003	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
2004	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
2005	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
2006			41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51
2007	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64
2008	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77
2009	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90
2010	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100	101	102	103
2011	104	105	106	107	108	109	110	111	112	113	114	115	116
2012	117	118	119	120	121	122	123	124	125	126	127	128	129
2013	130	131	132	133	134	135	136	137	138	139	140	141	142
2014	143	144	145	146	147	148	149	150	151	152	153	154	155
2015	156	157	158	159	160	161	162	163	164	165	166	167	168
2016	169	170	171	172	173	174	175	176	177	178	179	180	181
2017	182	183	184	185	186	187	188	189	190	191	192	193	194
2018	195	196	197	198	199	200	201	202	203	204	205	206