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Official PlayStation 2 Magazine Turkey and GamePro magazines in the past) became the editor-in-chief. Famous comedy duo Cenk and Erdem, Cem Şancı and writer Ali
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Romania is Marius Ghinea, who joined the team back in 1998 and raised the standards by writing high quality reviews, correlating gaming to forms of art and by having a very "refined taste" in games. Other authors that deserve to be mentioned for outstanding activity over the years: Mr. President,
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Romania was in direct competition with PcGames4Fun, which got closed, and used to be in competition with GameOver (which featured only 16 issues), the latter being considered by many to be the best gaming magazine ever written in
Romania so far.
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also organizes many yearly gaming competitions for players in two of the countries (Romania's pro-gaming sponsor being the PGL – Professional Gamer's League); it is one of the biggest
Turkish sponsors of international gaming contests (such as
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Turkish edition was founded and initially written by M. Berker Güngör (alias "Maddog") in 1997 and then Sinan Akkol (alias "Blaxis") joined the family couple of years later when he attended to a contest and became the heart of
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In 2007 Level
Romania organized an event called "Level-fest" aka "Viva la Level-ution", which would mark a successful re-tooling of their magazine. The event was held in Bucharest, in a club called "Fire".
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Claudiu 'Claude' Gedo, Wild Snake, Sebah, Mihail 'Mike' Stegaru, Mihai 'Mitza' Sfrijan, Sebastian 'Locke' Bularca, Vladimir 'Ciolan' Ciolan and Mircea 'KiMO' Dumitriu, current Editor in Chief.
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was transferred to magazines´ game portal hrej.cz and is accessible with code printed in magazine along with fullgame keys. The content is usually carried on one or two one-sided DVD9 media.
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was founded by Jan "Beast" Tománek in 1995 in Czech
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