Look at that! It’s Agent 47 shooting up the joint, right on our front cover. You have no idea how hard it was to get him to pose for this. We were tracking him down for days, he’s not an easy man to get hold of. We thought we’d lost him at one point, until the tea-boy realised he’d stolen a clown costume from somewhere and was making funny glances towards a vicar. He is a funny one.

Agent 47 heads up another packed issue, here’s what you’ll get…

Reviews

Soul Calibur V, Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection, NeverDead, Joe Danger, All Zombies Must Die!, Trine 2, Sonic CD, Voltron, Choplifter HD

Previews

Hitman Absolution, The Darkness II, MUD, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Fortnite, Ridge Racer: Unbounded, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, DiRT Showdown, Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, Game Of Thrones, Syndicate, Prototype 2, Mass Effect 3, Halo 4, Bioshock Infinite, South Park

Features

Secret Games, So many developers in the world, so few announced projects. We delve behind the headlines to find out what treats of 2012 are yet to be unveiled.

A Griefer’s Guide To Battlefield 3, Team killing, standing in full view above snipers, even attaching C4 to a plane at take-off. DICE’s shooter is ripe with opportunity to point and giggle. We examine how, exactly.

Club 360, L.A. Noire, we return to Rockstar and Team Bondi’s ambitious take on the open world genre. Does it manage to meld GTA’s freedom with old-school adventure gaming depth, though? We let you have your own say.

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Issue 95 of 360 Magazine hits the shelves bringing with it an an exclusive review of Final Fantasy XIII-2. Better than it’s predecessor? Well, there’s only one way to find out. Square Enix’s ambitious sequel heads up another massive issue, here’s everything in a nutshell…

Previews

Kingdom Of Amalur: Reckoning, Hitman Absolution, Max Payne 3, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Patriots, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, I Am Alive, Binary Domain, Metro: Last Light, Spec Ops: The Line, Skullgirls, Sniper Elite 2, Prototype 2, Darksiders II, Lollipop Chainsaw, Project Draco, Birds Of Steel, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and many more…

Reviews

Final Fantasy XIII-2, Dungeon Defenders, South Park: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Special Edition, Fusion: Genesis, Iron Brigade

Features

Follow The Man

Everyone likes to follow the ma in games like Call Of Duty, right? Wrong, and we’ll tell you why.

Are You Being Ripped Off?

We look into the worrying trend for games to offer microtransactions as a way of increasing revenue.

Club 360

Bayonetta It’s crazy! It’s sexy! It’s downright mental! It could only be Bayonetta. This issue we take a look back on one of the 360′s most unusual titles.

You can download the latest issue of 360 Magazine (also available in all good newsagents) through iTunes to your iPad or iPhone for just £1.99 per issue. Bargain!

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With extensive behind-the-scenes access to BioWare’s cosmic RPG sequel, we examine just why Mass Effect 3 could have Game Of The Year tied up by February. In addition to this, we produce quite possibly the largest feature of all time, clocking in at some 43 pages, containing everything you need to know about 2012. The year that is, not the film, or the prophecy.

Here’s a full round-up of the contents…

Content

Features:
50 Biggest Games Of 2012
We run down the greatest slices of 360 gaming scheduled to arrive next year, rating each out of (what else?) 2012.

Game Of The Year 2011
We nominate our favourite titles from the past year’s stash – and to hell with anyone that doesn’t agree!

Club 360:
Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Another one has been released now, so this is as retro as bell-bottomed flairs with pockets in the knees.

Reviews:
Need For Speed: The Run
Goldeneye 007: Reloaded
LOTR: War In The North
Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7
The King Of Fighters XIII
YourShape: Fitness Evolved 2012
Kinect Disneyland Adventures

Previews:
Every game due to come out in 2012.
Spread across 43 packed pages.
Plus some Live Arcade stuff, like Joe Danger.
And I Am Alive.
It’s really quite excellent.

Potentially the most ambitious game of the generation, Bioshock Infinite makes for an extraordinarily pretty cover. We go behind the scenes and chat to the enigmatic Ken Levine in what has to be one of our most packed issues of the year. Just look at all those reviews! Crazy. Here’s a breakdown of everything in the mag:

Features:

BioShock Infinite
We went along to meet Ken Levine face to face and talked with him about stories and games and shit. 8 pages of that (four pages interview, four pages on time spent with BioShock Infinite).

Call Of Duty Elite
A way to charge gamers more, or the way forward for the modern, multi-faceted online gaming experience? Dave Shaw investigates the goods, the bads and what it all means for the future of gaming. Includes interview with the man behind it all.

GTA V:
Rumour Mill: Sorting the truth from the fiction.
The GTA Generation: What GTA V’s timing may mean for the next generation of consoles.

Club 360
Alan Wake. Some of you loved him, some of you loathed him. Go here to admire the cleverness of your own commentary.

Reviews: (Deep Breath)
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (both singleplayer and multiplayer)
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Saints Row The Third
WWe ’12
Spider-Man: Edge Of Time
The Adventures Of Tintin
Disney Universe
Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3
Blackwater
Dance Central 2
Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking
Kinect Sports: Season 2
Orcs Must Die!
The War Of The Worlds
Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone
Bejeweled 3

Previews:
GTA V
Borderlands 2
Tomb Raider
Devil May Cry HD Collection
FIFA Street
Hitman: Absolution
BioShock Infinite
Risen 2: Dark Waters
The Darkness II

Saints Row: The Third comes bursting right off the page in this issue and we’ve gone all bling and included a stunning shiny foil treatment to really make this a special edition of 360 Magazine. All the usual awesome content is here as well as some in-depth previews of this year’s (and next year’s) biggest and best games. No other magazine gives you this kind of access to the games you want for such a low price.

Want to know exactly what’s in this amazing purple issue of 360 Magazine? Well, here’s a run down…

Reviews

Forza Motorsport 4, RAGE, Dark Souls, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, F1 2011, Supremacy MMA, Resident Evil 4 HD, PES 2012, The Cursed Crusade, WRC 2 and The Gunstringer.

Previews

Aliens: Colonial Marines, Saints Row: The Third, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Street Fighter X Tekken, Jurassic Park: The Game, Syndicate, Need For Speed: The Run and Final Fantasy XIII-2, plus much more.

Features

Aliens Vs. 360 Magazine We chat to president of Gearbox Software, Randy Pitchford, about all things Colonial Marines, and take a good look at next year’s biggest and potentially best alien-based shooter.

A Griefer’s Guide to Gears Of War As if every play session wasn’t lesson enough, we outline how to lose a Friends List and alienate people.

Livestyle

We return to Darksiders in preperation for its sequel as well as taking a look at Gears Of War 3′s online offering and also offer a definitive verdict on Driver: San Francisco. We also give you a run down of XBLA’s best games of the month as well as looking at the best geek-crap money can buy. Oh, yes.

We’re really excited about the new image. What a difference refreshing the logo can make. Now when someone Tweets, “Hey, did you see that thing in 360, where that guy said the things about the things?” The instant reply won’t be ‘What’s 360?’ It’ll be ‘Awesome, I love 360 Magazine, it really is the best three weekly magazine you can get for £2.99 and those chaps that write it are a devilishly handsome bunch, the rogues!”

Or, something along those lines at least.

360 is a number, 360 Magazine is a publication, so it’s nice to finally be one. A small change, but an important one. Enough of all that though, what fantastic content can you expect…

Reviews:
Gears Of War 3
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Dead Island
El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron
FIFA 12
NHL 12
Rise Of Nightmares

Previews:
Far Cry 3
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
DMC Devil May Cry
Prototype 2
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Combat Wings
Dragon’s Dogma
Asura’s Wrath
Darksiders
Dishonored
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Steel Battallion: Heavy Armor
Metro: Last Light
Grand Slam Tennis 2
The Black Eyed Peas Experience

Features:
360 Magazine Versus The Internet: We take a look at the pros and cons of internet vs. print and tell the internet it’s rubbish. Take that internet, you whore!

The highs and lows of Gamescom: Self-explanatory.

The future of multiplayer: We talk to some of the most knowledgeable devs in the business and ask them where they see multiplayer in five years.

Plus all the usual dingus…

Pretty sweet, right?

Here it is, one of the most action packed issues of 360 Magazine we’ve ever produced. It’s so big we’ve had to put it in a bag with a free book! All for your gaming pleasure… enjoy.

Inside:

Reviews (the last ‘silm’ reviews section this year; drought’s over):
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Driver: San Francisco
Rugby World Cup 2011
Madden NFL 12
Ms Splosion Man
Boulder Dash XL
Bastion
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team

Previews:
Borderlands 2
MW3 Vs. Battlefield 3 Double-preview
Gears Of War 3
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
SSX
Dark Souls
F1 2011
Need For Speed: The Run
Spider-Man: Edge Of Time
X-Men: Destiny
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
RAGE
Hitman Absolution
Resident Evil 4 HD

Features:
360 Magazine Vs. Top Gear: A day at the Top Gear test track with The Stig.
Xbox 360′s greatest sniper rifles.
How to survive a zombie apocalypse.

‘Til next time

360 Magazine has grabbed the nearest weapon and is currently looking for an easily defensible location, probably somewhere high… with lots of food and a good view of the surroundings. Issue 88 heads behind the scenes of Techland’s ambitious new zombie apocalypse simulator as well as catching up with Gears Of War 3 and GoldenEye: Reloaded. With tons of incredible content, 360 Magazine brings you the best of the games industry for only £2.99. Every three weeks you can get access to the best games, interviews, news, previews and reviews. It really is the only magazine you need…

Reviews

Call Of Juarez: The Cartel, Captain America: Super Soldier, Cars 2, Le Tour De France, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2

Previews

Dead Island, Gears Of War 3, Ace Combat: Ace Assault Horizon, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning
Inversion, The Witcher 2, WRC, GoldenEye 007: Reloaded, Kinect Star Wars, Dance Central 2, Fable: The Journey , Forza Motorsport 4, The Gunstringer, SSX, Bodycount, FIFA 12, PES 2012, plus much, much more

Features

15 Most Awesomest Gears Of War Moments
In celebration of Epic’s epic series, we give you the top 15 moments you need to replay.

There Are Only Ten
How many characters do games let you become? Really, there’s only ten. We find out why.

Exactly When For Next-Gen
We take a look at the very real possibility of new hardware in the next few years.

Livestyle

From Dust, we take a look at the year’s most ambitious XBLA title to discover if it opens up a whole new world.

Club 360, we take a look back at Just Cause 2 to find out if there really was just cause.

We also round up the month’s best online content and give you a run down of the content you need to purchase.

360 Magazine takes you to Syria and Turkey no less this month, squeezing every last detail from Ezio and Altair’s final adventure. Featuring a probing interview with lead game designer Alexandre Breault and more screens than you can wave a scimitar at, you’re sure to find something to tickle your history gland. Nevertheless, if romping around in a cape doesn’t float your boat we’ve all the reviews, previews and hot industry news you need, all for a low, low price of £2.99. You can’t even get a pint for that, nowadays.

Reviews:

F.E.A.R.3, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Green Lantern: Rise Of The Manhunters, Major League Baseball 2K11, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars, Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3

Previews:

Kinect Star Wars, Rise Of Nightmares, Gotham City Imposters, Rugby World Cup 2011, UFC Undisputed 3, The Adventures Of Tintin, The Darkness II, Dragon’s Dogma, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Binary Domain, Battlefield 3, Silent Hill: Downpour, Rage, Prey 2, BioShock Infinite, Need For Speed: The Run, XCom, Metro: Last Light, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Dance Central 2, Asura’s Wrath

Features:

Funny Games – We speak to four top UK comedy writers to analyse what makes a humorous videogame.

Don’t Stop Believing – After an E3 packed with Kinect buffoonery, we explain how there’s still much to look forward to.

Livestyle:

We remenisce over Assassin’s Creed II (appropriately enough), pointing out the ten most stupid Indie Games along the way. Some of them aren’t even developed by Silver Dollar! Alongside our usual array of Geek Chic and extreme cosplay, there’s under the radar Arcade hit, The Adventures Of Shuggy.

“Shoot-’em-up prey comes in three primary flavours: robots, aliens and people whom America has upset” – Dan Howdle on Binary Domain.

360 Magazine takes you behind the scenes of the biggest franchise and gives you an up close and personal look at Modern Warfare 3. The best selling game of the year? Quite possibly, but if CoD’s not your thing 360 magazine delivers you all the best gaming news previews and reviews all for the insane price of £2.99 every three weeks. The only 360 magazine you need spend you cash on…

Reviews:

Duke Nukem Forever, Earth Defence Force: Insect Armageddon, Shadows Of The Damned, Alice: Madness Returns, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, Dungeon Siege III, Red Faction: Armageddon, Arcana Heart 3, UFC Personal Trainer.

Previews:

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 4, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Hitman: Absolution, Sonic Generations, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Soul Calibur V, Ninja Gaiden, Gears Of War 3, Far Cry 3, Ryse, MassEffect 3, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Fable: The Journey, Metro: Last Light.

Features:

Peripheral Vision, We take a look at some of the Xbox 360′s most outlandish peripherals.

The Expanding Universe, Do videogames have enough legs to make credible books, movies and placemats?

Livestyle:

We review Red Faction: Armageddon to see if its destructive ways extend to its online play as well as taking  a look back at the original Rock Band and the massive effect it had on the industry. We also cover allthe best XBLA games, DLC and general geekry you could possibly want.

“Awesome set-piece moments you have never seen in locations you’d never expect” Robert Bowling on Modern Warfare 3.