Hyper (magazine)
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| Editor | Daniel Wilks |
| Categories | Computer and video games |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First Issue | 1993 |
| Company | Next Media Pty Ltd |
| Country | Australia |
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| Website | Hyperactive |
| ISSN | unknown |
Hyper is a multi-platform Australian video game magazine. Australia's longest running gaming magazine, it has been in publication since 1993, and was released the same month as the better known UK magazine Edge.
Issues 85 to 94 of Hyper featured a cover disc, containing demos of PC games and video footage of console videogames, which was very popular with its readers and provided material for a long running joke, regarding the creator of the CDs, Amos Hong.
In addition to coverage of all current major video game systems and game releases, Hyper also covers anime, DVD movies, arcade and classic games, and features in-depth interviews with industry professionals and articles on game-related content such as computer hardware and video game music. Hyper is notable for its quirky sense of humour, sometimes hilarious screenshot captions (many of which are related to classic lines from popular TV show The Simpsons), regular artistic revisions and the rapport that the staff attempt to build with the readers. This extends to a number of running in-jokes. However, when former editor Cam Shea invented a large number of in-jokes after his instatement, many long-time readers felt dissatisfied, culminating in several letters of complaint in issue 138. These elements were toned down after that issue, and the current iteration is once more tasteful to the magazine's readers.
Hyper's sister magazines being the PC game-oriented PC PowerPlay and Nintendo Gamer, also published by Next Media.
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[edit] Current Contributors
Kosta Andreadis, Alexander Gambotto-Burke, Dylan Burns, Seamus Byrne, Ed Dawson, Eleanor Eiffe, Tim Henderson, Tim Levy, Bryce McDonough, Mikolai, Daniel Staines, Christopher Taylor, Paul Taylor, Patrick Kolan, Stephen Farelly.
[edit] Staff
The current posts of editor, deputy editor and art director are held by Daniel Wilks, Maurice Branscombe and Malcolm Campbell respectively.
In February 2007, Editor Cam Shea left Hyper to work at IGN as one of their IGN AU journalists.[1]
[edit] Forums
The website hosts a public internet forum that serve as a link between editors and readers of the magazine.
A secondary forum was established in 2004 as part of a website known as doesmannerism.com. The site was constructed as an example in a feature article about creating websites and was based on one of the Hyper in-jokes. The website proper has since been taken down, with promises of new content coming soon greeting users on the main page.
