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Thirteen1 - The online games magazine



Thirteen1 is an online gaming magazine based in East Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Founded in March 2008 by three gaming enthusiasts the idea behind the site was a simple one, to provide gaming news and reviews written by gamers and for gamers. With this in mind they set about writing the first issue which was launched on the 13th of April 2008.

This pack contains the PDF version of the first five issues of the magazine

for the latest issue or to view these in our browser based version head over to Thirteen1.com




***Issue #1***

April 2008

Pre-paid The future method of paying for your games?
Battle Dawn Has the revolution started?
Cabal Online The Sleeping Giant Awakes!

Plus...
Getting into the games industry, mass debate, movers and shakers,upcoming games and more!



***Issue #2***

May 2008

Miss Bimbo Behind the headlines
Age of Conan Review and Special Competition
Prison Struggle Judged and Sentenced!
Recruitment Special Breaking into the industry

Plus...
Fair Play for Games Campaign, Mass Debate, Movers and Shakers, upcoming Games and More!



***Issue #3***

June 2008

Mythos Preview of the game and Special Beta Key giveaway
Age of Conan Launch Event Special
Alone in the Dark It's Friday the 13th! we look at the return of the classic series.

Plus...
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Mass Debate, Movers and Shakers, Upcoming Games and More!



***Issue #4***

July 2008

Jumpgate : Evolution an in depth look at the up and coming game and a quick Q&A with the Producer
Battlefield Heroes: Q&A with one of the guys from Dice
Earthrise: First look at an eagerly awated MMORPG

Plus...
Healthy Gaming Tips, MGS 4 Mass Debate, Smash Bros Brawl, Upcoming Games and More!



***Issue #5***

August 2008

Wrath of the Lich King Preview of the upcoming expansion to World of Warcraft
DC Universe Online: Batman & Green Lantern in an MMO, Finally!
World of Kung Fu: Chopsticks not included

Plus...
Interview with Reason Gaming, Dofus, Warrior Epic, Lost Crown and lots more Upcoming Games and Community News!



***Issue #6***

September 2008

We're celebrating our half-year anniversary with this month's edition of Thirteen1...and showing everyone that were here to stay!

To celebrate this milestone, there is a whole host of top-notch content to keep you occupied; including "Paddy the Drunken Gamer's" Warhammer Online experiences, all the latest reviews/news, eSports coverage and an exclusive interview with a successful Real Money Trader.

In-between the article writing and USB missile firing, The Thirteen1 team travelled to Leipzig, harassing the stalls like crazed lunatics to bring you all of the best bits from this years GC.

Remember, the Thirteen1 team runs around like idiots so you don't have too...

You can read the latest issue, OUT NOW by visiting http://www.thirteen1.com
-Thirteen1 Team





***Issue #7***

October 2008

The biggest and best issue of Thirteen1 yet!

This months Thirteen1 is simply too good to miss, fact!
The biggest ever issue of Thirteen1 magazine is now available, ready and waiting to be read by you for free!

This month we'll be taking you into the line of fire with a hands-on preview of EA's hugely-anticipated Battlefield Heroes. This MMOFPS is taking forever to launch, but is it benefiting from the delay?

War...what is it good for anyway? Absolutely nothing!? Check out Paddy the Drunken Gamer's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning review to see how Thirteen1 rates GOA's epic PvP MMO.

Between the declarations of all-out gaming warfare we took an in-depth look at Spore, got everybody on the forum furiously mass-debating, got hands-on with Runes of Magic and sleep-walked out way through the rather bizarre world of Dreamlords.

Finally, not sure which games you should be tracking or adding to your early Christmas wish-list? With exclusive interviews, previews and the new 'Games Roundup' feature we bring you info on all of the up-coming titles that matter.

We told you it was too good to miss...



***Issue #8***

November 2008

This month Thirteen1 is bringing you a massive edition of quality games, interviews and giveaways!

Along with a bumper 10 page Wrath of the Lich King special, featuring comments from some of Warcrafts most notable community figures, there's a whole host of top games for the run up to Christmas.

The November issue also has us stomping Locust heads in Gears of War 2, escaping the vault in Fallout 3, and writing our own stories in Fable II.
In-between all of that we've swung around New York in a very Spider-man like manner, moved the earth in WorldShift and traded with force in the new Star Wars Galaxies TCG.

Still not sure which football game to spend your hard earned cash on? We've got that covered!
Or maybe you've been getting caught up in the election excitement and are wondering about the best game to test out your political skills? We've only gone and cleared that up for you too!

To top it all off, we caught up with the guys behind Cities XL to find out what we could about the Leipzig wowing game, and also trapped the people behind Champions Online for a superhero fuelled Q&A.

Not enough? How about some competitions!?

We've got a whole host of prizes to giveaway this month, so be sure you don't miss out!

-There's an XFX Nvidia 9600GT Express Graphics Card and Headset to win in conjunction with The Political Machine
-Copies of Sins of a Solar Empire and The Political Machine
-Gears of War books
-AND a Collectors Edition of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.




***Issue #9***

December 2008


In the famous words of a Mr Noddy Holder: Iiiiiiiiiiiiit's Chriiiiiisssssssstmas!

What's a better way to unwind from the Christmas shopping madness than sitting down and reading a good, free gaming magazine like Thirteen1? Nothing, that's what!

Click right here, right now to jump straight to the magazine! Well, you can carry on reading if you want...

Here at Thirteen1 we like to do out bit, especially when it comes to providing you with top quality reviews, previews and competitions. Consider it our gift to you. You can just send ours to the usual address.

The December edition is our biggest issue yet (we seem to be doing this every month, don't we?), with more top-notch features than you can shake a proverbial stick at!

We've gotten sticky with the absolutely super World of Goo, risked our necks on the battlefield in Call of Duty: World at War, burnt some crops with Far Cry 2, cooperatively shot the hell out of zombies in Left 4 Dead and went hands-on with the beta of Perfect World, the latest localisation offering from Games Masters!

Between all of that we tackled that age old question...who would win in a fight between Superman and Sub Zero? Read our bone-crunching Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe review to finally discover the answer!

Wondering what kind of gaming goodness the new year will bring? Well wonder no more! We went hands-on with G4 Box's MMOFPS Cross Fire and SouthPeaks upcoming pyrotechnic crazy Big Bang Mini (DS) and reported our findings...just to give you a taster of what's to come.

We also...you know what...there's too much content to report in a single mail-shot!

We advise you just read the magazine and check it all out for yourself. Go-on, we'll wait here for you...still around? OK...

...How about some quality prize's to fill your Christmas stockings with!

Those fine folk over at Oxygen have donated an Xbox 360 for you to get your hands on, in conjunction with their top darts game PDC World Championship Darts 2008! More of a casual gamer? Fine, then how about a Nintendo DS, courtesy of SouthPeak along with their rather excellent Ninja Town!




***Issue #10***

Jan. 2009

January is a notoriously quiet month in the gaming calendar, but that hasn't managed to keep the Thirteen1 team from getting another awesome issue out to you.
2009 is shaping up to be another stellar year for gaming, with a ton of top titles scheduled for release over the coming 12 months.

This month's T1 highlights the titles that you should be anticipating the most this year, telling you exactly what you need to know about each of them.
You know we're good like that, and we promise you'll be drooling with excitement after checking out our 2009 - A Gaming Odyssey feature!

We've packed in a few of our usual top-title reviews for you to read up and spend your pennies on in the January sales too.

We jumped, climbed and danced around Ubisofts glorious looking Prince of Persia, killed as many songs as possible with Microsoft's Lips, rocked our little hearts out to Guitar Hero: World Tour and built some rather bizarre looking contraptions with Banjo and Kazooie's latest adventure from Rare, Nuts & Bolts...

..and just incase Santa wasn't good enough to you...

You can bag yourself a top-notch Gainward overclocked 9800GTX+ graphics card, courtesy of the generous people behind Runes of Magic. Just read the mag to find out how you can get hold of this post-Christmas treat.




***Issue #11***

Feb.2009



That Christmas stash of games is probably starting to dry up now, so get your head buried in our review pages to check out the best offerings to keep you going for another month.

It's Friday the 13th � spooky � so we just had to bring you a review of Sega's new House of the Dead for the Wii, released today. We carry on the ghoulish theme with Konami's Silent Hill Homecoming too, and then totally forget about it all to do some kick-flips with Skate 2.

The awesome looking Runes of Magic is edging closer to it's official release date, so we finally sent the Drunken Gamer into the world of Taborea to see what his MMO mind makes of it all.
In-between a sip or 10 of Guinness, of course!

We managed to get hands-on with the beta of Plain Sight too, a stupidly cool robot-fighting online game where the aim is simple yet original � kill others, then kill yourself to get the points.

Freebies! Freebies! Freebies!

If you've already lost interest in all your Christmas presents and need more stuff, there are a few comps in this issue to help you out!

You could bag Lord of the Rings Online - one of Paddy's recent favourite MMO's, SouthPeak's new game Xblades, a PSP with CID the Dummy goodies, Runes of Magic t-shirts and Plain Sight merchandise too. Well worth checking out!

That's about it magazine-wise for another month, time for the team to take a well earned rest.


***Issue # 12***

March 2009


With Spring coming thick and fast we've somehow resisted the better weather and remained inside, locked in a small, windowless room to bring you the titles you need to be getting your hands on - and those you should avoid at all costs!

Let's be honest, we had no chance of seeing sunlight with Street Fighter IV hitting the shelves, a game so highly anticipated that Paddy has been giving us constant 'Hadouken's' since it was announced. He swears he'll get it right one day and manage a 'real-life' Ryu-type blast. We're staying clear...

We simply had to review it! So there's a thorough look at Capcom's latest instalment in the SF franchise tucked away in these very pages!

We've also managed to kick Covenant ass in Halo Wars, Ensemble's RTS take on the mega-popular Halo franchise, get down and dirty in the zombie-ridden trenches of Eidos' ShellShock 2: Blood Trails, and then went back in time a few years to play the exact same scenario again in 505 Game's Necrovision.

You can expect a review of potential genre-defining FPS Killzone 2 on the PS3 too. Does it really live up to the hype?

There's loads of other delights tucked away in the latest issue, which also marks the start of our brand new regular 'Breaking Into The Industry' feature, which will help you � yes, you! - get a job in gaming with top tips from industry professionals.



***Issue #13***

April 2009


It feels like just yesterday that we unleashed Thirteen1 onto the world, but what a top year it's been!

To celebrate, we're bringing you a sensational 'new-look' mag, a bumper issue of your favourite content AND loads of gaming goodies to get your hands on - including a free *exclusive* item for Turbine's top MMORPG Lord of the Rings Online.

The Hauberk of the Mithril Guard Giveaway!

That's right, the fine folks over at Codemasters are providing us with 5000 codes for The Hauberk of the Mithril Guard to giveaway, an awesome item for LOTRO that is currently only available in Thirteen1!

You better snap one up quickly if you want to guarantee one for yourself!

Top Content!

This special issue, officially our biggest ever, comes packed with all of the latest reviews, previews and news that you need - all wrapped up in our fancy new software!

In these very pages we get hands-on with Fallout 3's latest DLC, The Pitt, enjoy some retro-fighting goodness with the latest King of Fighters release, stare at Ayumi's backside in X-Blades and go back in time with both Grand Ages: Rome and Empire: Total War.

You can use our brand-new Nintendo DSi to navigate the latest game news, send us your own funny birthday card and check out everything we didn't get up to at this years GDC.

We also invite you to join us as we get all sentimental and look back on a year of running a magazine - with our imaginatively named 'A Year of Thirteen1' feature. We don't know how we come up with it sometimes.



***Issue # 14***

May 2009


We've been working tirelessly over the past month to keep your favourite magazine evolving, with a bunch of software tweaks and loads of top content resulting in the greatest, smoothest Thirteen1 read yet. We hope you'll agree!

This edition is jam-packed with bags of top content to flick through � such as our special preview feature of Dragonica, an up-coming side-scrolling MMORPG that is winning all sorts of plaudits in the Thirteen1 office.

Over the course of the month we've managed to get lost and lonely in the dark with Chronicles of Riddick, bossed an entire city in The Godfather II, made a return to Taborea to catch up with Runes of Magic, shown that we just don't care in our underwear with Naked War, and burnt a bunch of bad-ass ballerina zombies in Burn Zombie, Burn.[snip]

While we are very much looking to the future, our blast from the past in the anniversary edition must have appealed to the retro corner of our brain, because this issue is rammed with old-school goodness!

There's the start of a brand new section where we take a look back on classics like Earthworm Jim and Abe's Odyssey. We dice with smiley-death in HeatBeam's retro-hearted Emotigeddon, go deep into the world of Geneforge 5 AND save the human race with Gravity Core.

Beta Key Giveaway!

Between the furious gameplay sessions, we caught up with the guys behind Omerta - the Mafia MMORPG � to get a sneaky peak of their brand new version 3.0 release and a bunch of exclusive beta-key invites so you can play it!

Flip to page 5 of the mag now to get your hands on one!



***Issue #15***

June 2009


It's Summer, yes! Our favourite time of the year.

Crack open a beer (or a nice juice if you're too young), get your hand-held console and enjoy yourself in the garden � you've no doubt earned it...just make sure you don't forget to print this issue off first and take it with you!

It's been an exciting month for gaming, with this years E3 turning out to be one of the best in the conventions history. All of the big players came to the convention and blew audiences away with their announcements, from the likes of Project Natal to upcoming sequels and new IP's.

We've rounded up all of the best bits in this issues handy "Best of E3" section, just incase you missed a few, or happen to think Natal is some kind of futuristic space programme.

This top also issue sees Paddy the Drunken Gamer finally getting the chance to clear his hangover by flying into lampposts with the beta of Champions Online, Cryptic's hugely anticipated superhero MMORPG. Be sure to check out his hands-on preview, where you can discover the true depths of the games much-heralded character creation and battle features!

We go hands-on with The Sims 3, the latest instalment in EA's Sims mega-franchise, zip around bullet-filled skies in Battlestations: Pacific and head on back to the wastelands with Broken Steel, the latest DLC offering for Fallout 3.[snip]

Not enough? Then why not check out our review of the oddly original Zeno Clash, indulge in a bit of team-based fun with Killing Floor. We even found the time to make a name for ourselves with inFamous, Sucker Punch's PS3 exclusive release � does this game really test the power of the PS3?

And that's nowhere near all, as you can expect the usual mix of rants, interviews, retro goodness and gaming related features too. And, of course, we haven't forgotten about the prizes!

Free Comps and Giveaways!

As always, the latest issue of T1 comes with loads of free gaming goodies for you to get your hands on!

We've got loads of games to giveaway this month to keep you occupied, including your choice of 10 awesome retro titles courtesy of GoG, as well as 10 copies of Zeno Clash and many, many more...

Quality prize if we may so ourselves.

Enjoy the issue!

The Thirteen1 Team
Thirteen1.com




***Issue #16***

July 2009


What a crazy month! The sun has pounded down on us - causing everyone to sweat and Gow to be blinded by his hayfever (to our amusement), Michael Jackson passed away (maybe he melted in this heat?), and the games have been coming thick and fast to take our minds off it all.

This issue has us zapping ghosts and ghouls as we review the most anticipated release of the year in Ghostbusters, sticking the middle finger up at gravity with Dejobaan's free-falling �Aaaaa� and trudging through the wastelands with Point Lookout � the latest Fallout DLC.
Even our friends at Omerta got in on the act, finally releasing Version 3 after 2 years of development. To celebrate, we've got a giveaway in the mag to get you started on the road to becoming a top gangster.

In one of the worst decisions probably ever made, we handed all of the minion-controlling based games over to our Drunken Gamer this month. That's right - the drunken, tyrannical, power-tripping gamer got to command minions in Overlord II and an entire city in the Cities XL beta! So he likes a bit of strategy, what could go wrong?...
The result? His reign of terror bled through to the office, and we all work for him out of fear now!

There are plenty of Q&A's here to keep you happy this month too, as we catch up with the guys behind Fairytale Fights, Huxley � mainly to figure out why it's taking so damn long � and even celebrity/top lyricist Scroobius Pip (one half of Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip). Turns out he's as big on games as he is music.

Throw in an exclusive Magic Road Online giveaway, the ever-present retro goodness and rants on everything gaming from the T1 team and our readers, and you've got another top issue of Thirteen1 to clamp your eyes on.

Free Comps and Giveaways!

As always, there are load of top-gaming goodies to be won too! We've got the awesome retro-gaming contest for the 3rd issue running, copies of Overlord II and Fuel to giveaway and more...check it out now!

Enjoy the issue!



***Blizzard Special Edition***


A special edition of Thirteen1 exclusively covering Blizzards World Wide Invitational event.

Packed with Blizzard Q&A's, announcements and more the magazine is bursting at the seams with all the main Blizzard titles. (World of Warcraft -Wrath of the Lich King, Diablo and Starcraft 2).





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