Nintendo Power
American video game magazine and podcast (1988–2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nintendo Power was a former video game news and strategy magazine from Nintendo of America, first published in July/August 1988 as Nintendo's official print magazine for North America. The magazine's publication was initially done monthly by Nintendo of America, then independently, and in December 2007 contracted to Future US, the American subsidiary of British publisher Future plc.[2] Its 24-year production run is one of the longest of all video game magazines in the United States and Canada.
Editor-in-Chief | Steve Thomason |
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Former editors | Chris Slate |
Staff writers | Phil Theobald Justin Cheng Chris Hoffman |
Categories | Video games |
Frequency | 6x annually; monthly beginning January 1991 |
Format | Magazine |
Circulation | 475,000 (2012)[1] |
First issue | July/August 1988; 36 years ago (1988-08) |
Final issue Number | December 11, 2012 (2012-12-11) 285 |
Company | Nintendo of America (1988–2007) Future US (2007–2012) |
Country | United States, Canada |
Based in | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Language | English |
Website | www.nintendopower.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 19, 2015) |
ISSN | 1041-9551 |
OCLC | 760783416 |
On August 21, 2012, Nintendo announced that it would not be renewing its licensing agreement with Future Publishing, and that Nintendo Power would cease publication in December.[1][3] The final issue, volume 285, was released on December 11, 2012.[4]
On December 20, 2017, a podcast version of Nintendo Power was launched, which ran until 2023. It was hosted by Chris Slate, the former Editor-in-Chief of the magazine. The podcast is on hiatus as of 2024.