LEVEL in Turkey
The Turkish edition was founded and initially written by M. Berker Güngör (alias "Maddog") in 1997 and then Sinan Akkol (alias "Blaxis") joined the family couple of years later when he attended to a contest and became the heart of LEVEL; today it is the leading computer games magazine in Turkey, with over 25 authors and distribution of 20 000 per issue. While the global games magazine PC Gamer and the local Gameshow (magazine) at first competed in the Turkish market, their Turkish branches closed due to financial difficulty, leaving LEVEL without competitors — and with extra staff poached from the failed publications.
The magazine encourages the purchase of legal copies of games, having published a series of articles about software piracy.
During August 2007, The magazine was sold to Doğan Burda, the leading magazine publisher of Turkey. Fırat Akyıldız (the editor-in-chief for Official PlayStation 2 Magazine Turkey and GamePro magazines in the past) became the editor-in-chief. Famous comedy duo Cenk and Erdem, Cem Şancı and writer Ali Aksöz (the creator of a highly successful web organization named Lost Library) has returned to LEVEL after the split. Also many writers from GamePro has joined LEVEL.
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