Polestar wins Gamer contract

Polestar Colchester has won the 40,000 print run contract for Retro Gamer, the classic video gaming title magazine from Live Publishing.

Repro for the 100pp quarterly will be handled in-house at the Manchester-based publisher, and the title, which launched its first issue on 15 January, has a cover price of 5.99.

Retro Gamer aims to be the UKs first regular gaming title dedicated to vintage video games.

The first issue has a cover mounted collectors edition CD, and contains information and reviews on over 200 PC retro games.

A special report is also provided on everything that was Sinclair and a review of the Top 100 retro games, including Manic Miner and Frogger.

Other titles published by Live Publishing include PC Extreme, PSG, PC Utilities Plus and Movie Insider.

Story by Andy Scott