Where was the magazine publisher based that bought the rights to Retro Gamer from Live Publishing?
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Retro Gamer Retro Gamer is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering retro video games. It was the first commercial magazine to be devoted entirely to the subject. Although launched in January 2004 as a quarterly publication, "Retro Gamer" soon became a monthly. In 2005, a general decline in gaming and computer magazine readership led to the closure of its publishers, Live Publishing, although the rights to the magazine were later purchased by Imagine Publishing. It was taken over by Future Publishing on 21 October 2016, following Future's acquisition of Imagine Publishing and its print portfolio.
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Imagine Publishing Imagine Publishing was a UK-based magazine publisher, which published a number of video games, computing, creative and lifestyle magazines.
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Licensing.biz Licensing.biz is an online trade magazine published by NewBay Media and based in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Originally aimed at European members of the licensing industry, it has since expanded to cover the trade worldwide.
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Play Meter Play Meter is an American trade magazine focusing on the coin-op and arcade game industry. It was founded in December 1974 by publisher and editor Ralph C. Lally II and it is published in physical form by Skybird Publishing on a monthly basis. "Play Meter" has published several bi-monthly and annual special issues throughout its history and it maintains a website where online content is also published monthly. The magazine is generally regarded as the premier trade magazine of the American video game industry and as the earliest example of video game journalism, establishing such practices as individual video game reviews and the ten-point assessment scale for video game reviews.
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Yes! (Hong Kong magazine) Yes! is a Hong Kong teen lifestyle magazine (ISSN 1560-6058  ) with a slogan "All-weather Youth Magazine" (). Founded by Joe Nieh () and Simon Siu () on 20 November 1990, it was originally a semimonthly magazine published on every 5th and 20th of each month and priced at HK$10. Later it was changed to be published on every Friday (officially published on Friday, but usually sold in various bookstalls and convenience stores on Thursday, depending on area) and priced at HK$12. It was mainly published with double cover, sometimes with triple cover (e.g. issues 965, 974), issues 975 and 1000 are with quadruple cover, and, rarely, with single cover (e.g., issue 971, 983, 984). Every issue is sold with an idol product as a gift (e.g. issue 953 and 966 are sold with an idol A4 folder). It ceased publication on 25 July 2014 (issue 1219).
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Coast (magazine) Coast is a consumer magazine about the British seaside. It was launched as a bi-monthly title in 2004 by Coastal Living Ltd, and was then published by Edisea Ltd, until UK publishing company National Magazines (now Hearst Magazines UK) bought it in 2005. National Magazines continued to publish it bi-monthly as a sister title to "Country Living" magazine. It increased the number of issues published per year to ten in 2007. The Magazine was taken over by current publishers Kelsey Publishing Ltd in November 2012. The number of issues published per year was increased to twelve in 2014.
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Game Informer Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles. It debuted in August 1991 when FuncoLand started publishing a six-page magazine. The publication is 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, which has contributed to the success of the magazine; it is now the 4th most popular magazine by copies circulated. "Game Informer" has since become an important part of GameStop's customer loyalty program, Power Up Rewards, which offers subscribers access to special content on the official website.
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Giant (magazine) Giant (stylized as GIANT) was a men's magazine based in New York City geared to the urban music market. It began in October 2004 as a bimonthly publication catering to the interests of 20-something men, focusing on pop culture including reviews of video games, movies, fine tobacco, music, everyday happenings and celebrity interviews.
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AstroGirl ASTROgirl! is a teenage magazine printed a few times a year. The magazine is published by Bauer Publishing, the United States division of the German firm Bauer Verlagsgruppe. It is an entertainment magazine with quizzes, celebrity gossip, games and posters with a focus on astrology, superstitions, dreams, psychics, and other paranormal topics. The first issue was released in the Summer of 2005. The headquarters is in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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Julian Rignall Julian "Jaz" Rignall (born 6 March 1965, London, England) is a publishing veteran with experience launching and managing numerous video game magazines and websites. A writer and editor, Rignall has also produced content for corporate websites such as GamePro Media, publisher of "GamePro" magazine and "GamePro.com", marketing collateral and advertising campaigns.
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Raze (magazine) Raze was a multi-format videogame magazine published by Newsfield Publications from October 1990 to September 1991 and was the successor to Newsfield’s own multi-format title "The Games Machine". The editorial work for "Raze" was contracted out to Words Works Limited, which was head by Richard Monteiro. The magazine itself was planned to be replaced after its initial 12-month run with two separate titles that would concentrate on the Sega and Nintendo consoles ("Sega Force" and "Nintendo Force"), however, those plans were put on hold when Newsfield entered liquidation in 1991. Content of "Raze" covered the 16-bit computer and console machines, with news on US and Japanese videogaming.
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PC Gamer PC Gamer is a magazine founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc. The magazine has several regional editions, with the UK and US editions becoming the best selling PC games magazines in their respective countries. The magazine features news on developments in the video game industry, previews of new games, and reviews of the latest popular PC games, along with other features relating to hardware, mods, "classic" games and various other topics.
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Nikkei Business Publications Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. (株式会社日経BP , "Kabushiki-gaisha Nikkei Bī Pī" ) , commonly known as Nikkei BP (日経BP社 , Nikkei Bī Pī sha ) , is a book and magazine publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was established as "Nikkei McGraw-Hill, Inc.", a joint venture of Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) and McGraw-Hill in 1969, and later it became to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Nikkei.
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Total! Total! was a video game magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future plc. It was published monthly for 58 issues, beginning in December 1991 (cover-dated January 1992), with the last issue bearing the cover-date October 1996. A "1993 Annual" featuring reprint material and a poster magazine were also released during the magazine's lifetime.
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GamesMaster (magazine) GamesMaster is a monthly multi-format computer and video game magazine published by Future plc in the United Kingdom. It is the biggest selling multi-format video games magazine in the United Kingdom, outselling its sister publication "Edge".
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Computeractive Computeractive (sometimes written as Computeract!ve, to reflect the logo) is a fortnightly computer magazine published by Dennis Publishing in the United Kingdom.
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Muse (Hong Kong magazine) Muse (瞄) is a bilingual Hong Kong-based multimedia publisher specialising in content related to the art and culture scene of Hong Kong and greater China. "Muse" now concentrates on digital media, books, and specialised publishing projects, and is a developer for both Amazon.com's Kindle Store and Apple's iBookstore, Muse also maintains its own online bookstore.
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Laufer Media Laufer Media is an American magazine publisher, focusing on teen magazines.
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VideoGames &amp; Computer Entertainment VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (abbreviated as VG&CE) was an American magazine dedicated to covering video games on computers, home consoles and arcades. It was published by LFP, Inc. from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Offering game reviews, previews, game strategies and cheat codes as well as coverage of the general industry, "VG&CE" was also one of the first magazines to cover both home console and computer games. The magazine gave out annual awards in a variety of categories, divided between the best of home video games and computer video games. The magazine was known for its artwork by Alan Hunter and other freelance artists.
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Kerrang! Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music, currently published by Hamburg based Bauer Media Group. It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off supplement in the "Sounds" newspaper. Named after the onomatopoeic word that derives from the sound made when playing a power chord on a distorted electric guitar, "Kerrang!" was initially devoted to the new wave of British heavy metal and the rise of hard rock acts. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music weekly.
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Aktueller Software Markt Aktueller Software Markt (literally "Current Software Market"), commonly known by its acronym, ASM, was a German multi-platform video game magazine that was published by Tronic Verlag from 1986 until 1995. It was one of the first magazines published in Germany focused on video games, though the very first issues of "ASM" covered the software market in general for almost all platforms at this time, hence the magazine's full name. According to the magazine itself, it was the first computer software journal in Germany. However, it soon evolved into a video game magazine.
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PlayStation Official Magazine – UK PlayStation Official Magazine – UK, generally abbreviated as OPM, is a magazine based in the United Kingdom that covers PlayStation news, originally created in Winter 2006. Although the first issue was distributed in three-month intervals, from Issue 2 onward, it became a monthly segment. As of Issue 7 (June 2007), the magazine comes with a playable Blu-ray Disc; it primarily covers PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 games and material. However, it additionally also covers PlayStation Vita material. The magazine covers PlayStation lifestyle, as well all aspects of High Definition media in lesser detail.