Leve L - LEVEL in Czech Republic

LEVEL in Czech Republic

LEVEL was the third magazine, after Excalibur in 1991 and Score in 1994, about computer games, released on the Czech market. With the founder Martin Ludvik, LEVEL began its history in January, 1995. For a year and a half, the editor-in-chief was Jan Tománek, followed by Petr Bulíř (half a year in charge) and Jan Herodes, who led the magazine for seven years. His former assistant Ondřej Průša, one of the few people who had been with LEVEL for its whole history, replaced him during the following 4 years. The current editor-in-chief is Martin Bach. LEVEL is considered the best selling magazine about computer games in the Czech republic with nearly 40.000 print-outs dispatched every month. Current editorial staff consists of more than twenty members.

Level is/was structured into following sections and page donations:
Editorial - word from chief editor
Content table
Letters - letter from fans with answers from editors
Review of Month - 4 pages
Reactor - about 13 papes of blogs/commentaries from editors/game developers and interesting themes
News - 12 pages
Previews - 4 pages
Theme - 4 pages
Pixelvision / page 42 - section with art from games developers, 2 pages
Reviews - 19 pages
Hardware - news, tests, performance comaparisons, interesting HW, 14 pages
Consoles - news, reviews, 4 pages
Retro - news, happend before x years, making of..., geography, irreversible destiny, 10 pages
Developers introduction - 4 pages
Mod scene - 2 pages
Advertisements through whole magazine - 17 pages

From March 1998 every issue of magazine is accompanied by at least one AA/AAA fullgame on cover CD/DVD. CD/DVD usually contains: Full game(s), demo(s), free games, film/game trailers, utilities & drivers, Level TV videosection with videoreviews and funstuff. From issue 12/2011 all video content was transfered to magazines´ game portal hrej.cz and is accesible with code printed in magazine along with fullgame keys. The content is usually carried on one or two one-sided DVD9 media.