Coventions of a Magazine plus analysis

This magazine is called PSM3, which is a gaming magazine directed towards those who play video games and only for people who like playing PlayStation 3 games. The magazine is aimed to the over 15's as there is a age rating in the bottom right of the cover, this will be due to the fact that most video games now usually are over the age of 15 as a rating, and also because theirs a wider audience of gamers over the age of 15. PSM3 is a well known PS3 magazine so the company know that even if they conceal their Masthead, they will still get plenty of magazine sales. Their selling line 'Uk's No.1 PlayStation 3 magazine' proves to the readers that this magazine is well known so it's probably a good magazine to pick up and read to find out all the information you need on PS3 games.

There main image is of an up-coming game named Bioshock 2, and that's all what PSM3 want the reader to know that's inside the magazine, this isn't because the other games in the magazine are rubbish, it's because this game is a big game and know that readers will see the cover and buy it just because of that game. the cover line is just below to tell the reader just a little bit about Bioshock 2. With the image it fills up all of the cover this helps readers or new readers from the distance recognize it's about the game and then find out which magazine it's previewed in, this also helps with the size of the Masthead which is pretty big and noticeable from a far, the colour of the font matches with the actual game. In the bottom left corner is the date of publishing which in the case of this magazine is every month, also with the date is the bar code and then finally who actually publishes the magazine, in this case 'Future Publishing' who own quite a few gaming magazines.