Gameface Media Pack 2018

Ga e c m e Fa Media Pack 2018

Where’s your Gameface at?

Are you sassy, sweary and serious about gaming? If so, buckle up bitches. Gameface is a shrine for women gamers everywhere.

Whilst there’s no literal flower adorned golden statue, of a woman with one hand down her pants and the other holding a console remote, we appreciate that women aren’t particulary catered for within the gaming industry Whilst predominantly target women, we recognise that men are beautiful too. Just because pink is used in excess, doesn’t mean we don’t welcome men.

This isn’t a toilet, all genders are welcome here (gender free is the future). We cater for your gaming (news, reviews, latest tech), humour (how to, messages)and serious needs (life, art). Gameface is all about quality. A magazine that is lovingly made with a side dollop of spunkiness.

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age of four.Tomb raider, 40 winks, GTA, you name it. A good weekend for me was one sat opposite with my PS1. As I’ve grown, it’s come to my attention that despite women gamers becoming more prevalent, it’s always a surprise when you find a woman that enjoys a good ol’ race on Forza. With 17 years of gaming enjoyment under my belt, I want women gamers to take over the women in the kitchen stereotype.

Is there a better time to introduce Gameface?

Feminists are at an almighty high, social media is giving us the platforms we need to be heard, and the world of gaming just keeps getting better every day. When I was born, graphics were poor, women weren’t taken as seriously as they are today and social media was shit (unless you enjoyed the creepy looking chatrooms, then I apologise). It’s time to put some oomph back into print media.

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Women make up around half the gaming population (it’s yoyoing been between 52% and 48% in the last few years.) Yet, Gameface is the only magazine so far to warm up a seat for the female gamers of the world. With situations such as ‘Gamergate’ and overall misogyny present in the gamesphere, this is our chance to turn it around. Women gamers aren’t sluts, we just want to shoot a few guys without getting arrested, okay?

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r 42.5% buy the blockbuster releases 25% buy games from cex 13.5% get one video game a month

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A 24-year-old that games every day, a way to unwind after a day at work. Something about shooting some zombies is just as effective as a nice warm bath, and some fancy as fuck candles. Luna is a junior designer at a new, upcoming advertising company, in London. Being creative and a lover of art, this suits her down to the ground. Other than buying new video games, (and 2nd hand ones from CEX when times are hard, renting in London is expensive okay?) you’ll find her scouting out clothes shops for bargains, and eating out (and in). Harry Potter, Star Wars and Marvel films are her jam.

k 21.2% of gameface’s audience play more than 10 hours of video games a week

x 96.2% have watched harry potter 90.4% have watched at least one marvel film

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46.2% - Playstation 11.5% - PSP 34.6% xbox 57.7% - PC 15.4% - nintendo ds 25% - nintendo wii 11.5% - nintendo switch 19.2% - gameboy 3.8% - vr 1.9% - mobile apps

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not sure whether you should buy that game? we’ve got your back. We review a whole spectrum of games for you, so you can worry about the important stuff (like when you’re next going to eat, mmm pizza)

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sweating the small stuff, looking at some of the more serious issues in gaming and cheeky bits to make you giggle. the life section aims to tackle all.

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Scouting out the latest talent with a paint or makeup brush. we bring to you the finest artists, muas and cosplayers.

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We tell you the hiz hapz in the gaming world, today and tomorrow. Get pumped for upcoming games and events.

Need a new controller and unsure what to get? or wantign a completely new way to game? our tech pages are sure to sort you out good ‘n’ proper.

Media platforms

Etsy On instagram, we post any illustrations or teasers of what’s to come in the next issue.

We also As well as this, we use it to get content from the reader, when articles need reader participation. Instagram live is used to show gaming reviews in action.

By using twitter, we start up debates and conversations about current situations in the gaming community.

This is also another place we can use hashtags for virality. There is also links on all of our social media pages, so you can suscribe to Gameface easily.

Etsy is where we offer an illustration service to our audience and beyond.

They can either purchase unique, one off prints, or buy ones they have seen in the magazine. They can come in frames or without. As well as prints, we sometimes sell pieces of gamer memorabilia.

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Gameface is to be distributed amongst the train stations you can see pin-pointed on the map to the left. As well as Whsmith stores in England, Wales and Scotland only. Although, if you order from newstand online, you won’t even need to leave the comfort of your sofa (what a dream aye).

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Alex Vincent

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nter Alex. A 24-year-old illustrator undergrad who kicks ass at drawing.

When he’s not putting pen to paper, he’s training hard at the gym or making good use of Southampton’s extensive night life. And before uni he used to teach fitness classes, such as boxercise and circuit training.

No pot noodles for this guy.

Alex isn’t at university to get pissed every night on half a bottle of Tesco’s finest potato juice. He remembers drawing even before going to primary school, and is now working towards a Bachelor Honours in illustration in Southampton. “As for why I enjoy it, I just find it to be a relaxing distraction, when it goes well anyway!”. And when it comes to what he enjoys drawing, it’s animals vs mythological creatures, which we can see he does so skilfully. I admire artists like Alex so much. One because I would never have the patience to keep at a painting for too long without wanting to throw it out the window.

Two, because I would never be able to produce something so unequivocally flawless.

“Drawing’s something i’ve always done. i’m not exactly sure when i started or why, but i’ve been doing it since before i was even in reception, so it’s kind of ingrained in me.”

As I’m sure you can imagine, I was delighted when he agreed to create a unique piece for Gameface. Why Link and not Zelda I hear you ask; after all this is a female gaming magazine? Well, as an avid Pinterest trawler (I get lost amongst the fan art, home décor and hair goals) I often wade my way through hundreds of different interpretations of Link. Each and every one of them is beautiful in their own distinctive ways. Alex’s Link included.

Whereas, perhaps Zelda doesn’t get drawn quite as much due to her lack of appearances in the games. Maybe Zelda can be for a future issue, eh? Tag #ZeldaAppreciationIssue with your artwork for a chance to be featured in our next issue!

Top | Digital painting on the mythological creature Manticore.

Bottom | Digital painting of Jason Vorhees from the friday the 13th movies.

Right | digital painting showing an alien invasion.

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Think Mario Odyssey, but dinky af

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Think Lara Croft being a sassy independent woman

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Think Cults, rebellion and man’s best friend

Think Imagination has no limits

Think Hack and slash your way through norse mythology

Think Zombies, lots of them

Think Gta with horses and spurs

Think Disney characters battling darkness

Think Your childhood dream come true

Think Nintendo characters getting feisty

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Fast forward to now. VR is real, robots will probably take over the world one day, and video game characters look just like us. Gone are the days where Lara Croft’s boobs look like two pyramids stuck to her chest. The internet has transformed gameplay; one player games can now be played with people the other side of the world.

The game I play the most (Rocket League) can be played in duel

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“Why should it matter if someone is born with a tunnel of love or a pock et rock et ?” mode (1 vs 1), doubles (2 vs 2), standard (3 vs 3) or chaos (4 vs 4, it has other game modes also). Thus meaning I’m always playing with at least one other person over the web. Once I got invited to a party with two other guys who had their headsets on, but I didn’t put mine on. Simply because I feel that I could have got abuse for being a girl gamer, or disregarded as a gamer at all because of my gender. It shouldn’t matter, but gender stereotypes make these things matter.

I haven’t even been emotionally abused online for being a gamer, but because video gamers are standardised as being male, I sometimes feel as though I don’t ‘fit in’. Sadly, I’m most likely not the only person to feel this way. If we look back to the Gamergate ‘movement’, misogyny took over. People that supported it (known as ‘gaters’), were positive that it was solely for the ethics of journalism. However, it was noticed that many used it as a platform to shoot down video game developer Zoe Quinn and ruin the career she worked so hard for. It is believed this started happening because a rumour circulated that she cheated on her then boyfriend, Eron Gjoni, with five different guys, a rumour he started on his blog. He must have been pretty disgruntled, as this ‘post’ went on for 10,000 fucking words (did he really have nothing better to be doing?) Not only did he accuse Quinn of

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When I reached the ripe old age of 6, my uncle comes along with his PS2 and it blew.my.fucking.mind. The graphics, the design, the way it stood up all by itself. This machine was revolutionary. The only thing was, that the games I liked the most were probably not best suited to somebody who was small as I was. Enter Rock Star’s Grand Theft Auto Vice City and San Andreas, aka my nan’s worst nightmare for years to come. This game gave me the freedom any little girl could have wanted. I went shopping with CJ, took him to a strip club, got him 3 different girlfriends who conveniently lived on different islands and drove around in fancy ass cars. Forget the violence, the bad graphics and the swearing (my nan turned down the volume so I couldn’t hear ‘you motherfucking fools’ or ‘homie you trying to fuck with me’), I didn’t see or hear any of that. I was just a girl having the time of her life.

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he world of video gaming was introduced to me at the pint-sized age of 4. I used to eagerly watch my grandad punch in cheats for Tomb Raider, however if I remember rightly, cheats were used due to us being a pretty shit duo back in the day when it came to Lara. We swindled our way through to many destinations, with just a pair of pistols and a flare to protect us. I’m sure many other early Lara Croft fans can relate when I say this, locking Winston in the freezer was always a favourite past-time of mine (not only did he piss me off, he also comes across as quite the pervert). Crash Bandicoot was, and still is a favourite. Whether that be the original, Cortex Strikes Back, Warped, Crash Bash or Twinsanity. Either way, Playstation one games were mine and my Grandad’s jam.

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