FIVE MINUTE ORAL PRESENTATION:Game Informer magazine

(An image of the latest issue of Game informer)

Thesis:

Game informer is an American-based monthly magazine that features articles, news, strategy, and reviews of popular video games and associated consoles. They promote different consoles and advertisements, but mostly they try to give a nearly un-bias opinion on the game. Game informer also informs people of the new up-coming games and cheats and strategies in popular games.

Facts-

Recent releases are God of War Bundle pack. Many people were excited when they heard about this because of the history the game. People love God of War and all it has to give. Death Spank: Thongs of Virtue is the sequel to a game that came out just a couple of months back, but that doesn't mean it's not worth checking out. This is another recent release amazingly funny many people were disappointed in the previous game but this one should be checked out. Reviews come out on all these games after testers play them. The games are rated on their Graphics, game play value, sound, and control.

Tri brain

The images in the magazines are very graphic. Some are playful some are very gory. The images after the Neo-cortex and the reptilian part of the brain. The images give some strange sensation of fear maybe anger and this effect the reptilian parts of the brain. While reading has the Neo-cortex working on figuring out how to react to the word. Whether your reading reviews or just using cheats. A lot of images some cute some not so cute. These images definately targets the limbic part of the human brain.

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Trends

(Convergence to digital)You can now subscribe to game informer obviously you will get benefits if you subscribe or you can read it from the internet. There is a website where you can read the latest reviews cheats and strategies on the most popular games around.

(Word to image)The magazines also consist of a lot of popular symbols such as the XBOX symbol and the PlayStation 3 or the Wii symbol, along with many other companies that we as a society would consider very popular and familiar.

Principles-

Ownership belongs to GameStop. Game stop is a that sells and advertises games. “owned and published by GameStop Corp., the parent company of the video game retailer of the same name, who bought Funcoland in 2000. Due to this, a large amount of promotion is done in-store” They put their own advertisements in the magazines sometimes.

Individual meaning-

People are suppose to come up with there own opinion of the games and reviews in the magazine. Everyone is allowed to do this. Game informer is only one source of information you can get different kinds from other places. It is the public's responsibility to be well informed.

Pacing & reality-

While Game informer hypes the games they believe deserve it they do not realize that a lot of sequels are based on the hype. They are starting to base their reviews also on the hype and brand of the game. For example tenkaichi budokai 3 wasn’t considered a great game by game informer because it was not that big and Bandai did not promote it to much, the game was voted by fans one of the best games of its year. Game informers rating on the game was horrible 4/10. The benefits of reading the game informer is that you can intake information at your own pace no matter what unless you are about to thrown out of the store for reading in the store. This gives people the ability to really think about the information they are receiving.

27 persuasive techniques

Game informer uses many of the persuasive techniques. One that you usually see after a few pages is plain folks. You usually see normal people just all around a television playing games. Bandwagon is something you often see in a Game informer magazine. After their review of the game they tell you how popular it is and they talk about how many people love the game.

Another commonly used technique is humor. All throughout game informer magazines you will see different skits. Some directed at a specific group some just for the general public. Something it ranges from a video game character arguing with another about a specific topic like who is the better looking Mario brother or some character like master chef becoming president and kicking bush out. Maybe you will just see a many with a bunny mask on for the new advertisement of Lucha libre video game

(An image of cat woman from the new batman game)

The other thing you notice is beautiful people, or in this case beautiful video game girls. These are 3D characters with sex appeal applied. Whether it is cat women with cleavage showing or Tifa from final fantasy in a school girl outfit. You see this in game informer all the time.