360 (magazine) - Overview

Overview

The magazine was split into four main sections: Agenda, Foreplay, Reviews and Live Style. The double page spread on pages eight and nine, called Thread, was composed of emails, letters and posts or sections of posts from the 360 magazine forum. On page nine, there was a pie chart showing votes cast on the 360 magazine forum on a different subject every week, which was chosen by the magazine staff.

There were also two features following the Reviews section that sometimes were as long as ten pages. As a standard, the magazine was 130 pages long. The magazine targeted the mature gamer demographic, similar to that of Edge magazine.

The magazine also reviewed games, giving an overall score marked out of 5. They had also started to review game related hardware on occasion as well as aspects of Xbox Live. These typically included games available for purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace and various retail games with Live functionality.