Level (magazine)

Level is a computer and video games magazine originating in the Czech Republic with branches in Romania and Turkey.

Level is considered the best selling magazine about computer games in the Czech Republic with nearly 40.000 print-outs dispatched every month.

From issue 12/2011 all video content was transferred to magazines´ game portal hrej.cz and is accessible with code printed in magazine along with fullgame keys.

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.

The magazine encourages the purchase of legal copies of games, having published a series of articles about software piracy.

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.

Other authors that deserve to be mentioned for outstanding activity over the years: Mr. President, Claudiu 'Claude' Gedo, Wild Snake, Sebah, Mihail 'Mike' Stegaru, Mihai 'Mitza' Sfrijan, Sebastian 'Locke' Bularca, Vladimir 'Ciolan' Ciolan and Mircea 'KiMO' Dumitriu, current Editor in Chief.

In 2007 Level Romania organized an event called "Level-fest" aka "Viva la Level-ution", which would mark a successful re-tooling of their magazine.