 Cover of Official Xbox Magazine, January 2019 | |
| Editor | Stephen Ashby |
|---|---|
| Categories | Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One |
| Frequency | 13 yearly |
| Circulation | 425,000/month (US)[1] and 66,894/month (UK)[2] |
| First issue | November 2001 |
| Final issue | April 2020[3] |
| Company | Future plc |
| Country | United States/United Kingdom/Canada/Australia |
| Language | English |
| Website | Official website |
| ISSN | 1534-7850 |
Official Xbox Magazine (OXM) was a British monthly video game magazine which started in November 2001 around the launch of the original Xbox. A preview issue was released at E3 2001, with another preview issue in November 2001. The magazine was bundled with a disc that included game demos, preview videos and trailers, and other content, such as game or Xbox updates and free gamerpics. The discs also provided the software for the Xbox 360 for backward compatibility of original Xbox games for those without broadband and Xbox Live access. From January 2012, OXM no longer included a demo disc. In mid-2014, the U.S. version was merged into the UK version on the website, which lasted only a few months until Future plc announced that it was closing its website along with all the other websites that Future has published, including Edge and Computer and Video Games.[4][5] In February 2015, OXM and all of Future's video game websites were redirected into GamesRadar.[6]
The magazine was shut down in April 2020 by owners Future Publishing, in a review of titles. The COVID-19 pandemic was given as one of the reasons.[7]
A Chinese version of the magazine was released at the "XBox Summer Video Game Show" held by Microsoft Taiwan on August 21 and 22, 2004 at the Third World Trade Center in Taipei. It was limited to 200 copies.[8]
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- ^ "Xbox 360: The Official Xbox Magazine: Print | Future Advertising". Archived from the original on 2009-04-16. Retrieved 21 April 2008.
- ^ Kerr, Chris (30 March 2020). "Future shuts down Official Xbox Magazine after almost two decades". Gamasutra. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ "Future will close CVG". MCV/Develop. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ "Future plans 170 UK job cuts as it sells bikes and craft magazines". MCV/DEVELOP. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ "Messages from the editors - CVG". 4 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-01-04. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ Chris Kerr (30 March 2020). "Future shuts down Official Xbox Magazine after almost two decades". Gamasutra. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ "台湾"X04"Xbox情人节套餐登场". PCHome.net (in Chinese). August 19, 2004. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021.
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