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This week, Maxim launched a contest to find its very own Maxim Gamer Girl. Like a pig hunting truffles in the wild, Maxim will scour the streets of America for the perfect “video game vixen”. Wear your “hottest outfit”, the magazine commands. “First come, first serve.”
Sega has picked Andrea Bonnaccorso from a field of nine hotties in the Bayonetta impersonation contest they ran in conjunction with Maxim. Andrea gets a fly gaming rig and 972 unsolicited Facebook friend requests for her trouble.
Maxim and Sega are teaming up to find a real-world Bayonetta.
When news passed that Electronic Games’ Monthly subscribers would have their subscriptions to the folded, venerable mag replaced with Maxim, you just knew something like this was gonna happen.
Those of us with outstanding subscriptions to Electronic Gaming Monthly may finally be on the receiving end of a suitable replacement, should you be a horny hetero male who doesn’t like actual nudity in your magazines and enjoys skimming Maxim.
We’ve already had our fair share of Game of the Year awards, now it’s time to find out what everyone has just been dying to know: Who were the hottest video game babes this year?
Maxim spent some time with legendary Mortal Kombat announcer Hernan Sanchez, during which time they did exactly what I would do in that situation – make him say silly things in a menacing voice.
While I generally don’t pay too much attention to Maxim’s video game coverage, mainly because I don’t feel like I fit into their core demographic (Maxim readers), every once in a while the magazine that gave Sudeki for the Xbox 5 stars has something interesting to offer. Like a list of the 7 Greatest Faceless Announcers in Video Games, a celebration of those announcers we never see but will never forget. You may know them as “The Finish Him Guy”, or “the guy from Soul Calibur who sounds like he’s just making shit up as he goes along”, but you love them just the same.
Curious about how an investment in rupees, the currency in The Legend of Zelda, would have translated into real world profit? The financial wizards at Maxim have gone through the impressive effort of translating the in-game value of currencies to real-world dollars from a septet of classic and modern video games, a scientific pursuit that proves a single mineral unit from StarCraft is worth far, far more than a gold ring from Sonic the Hedgehog will ever be. Pulitzer for economic research, please!
7 Video Game Currencies Stronger Than the U.S. Dollar [Maxim]
Sure, TIME’s list of the best ten games released this calendar year had its controversial entries, but I highly doubt anyone will dispute gaming bible Maxim’s choices. Basically, all you really need to know is that 2K Games The Darkness surpassed Metroid Prime 3: Corruption in Maxim magazine’s year end wrap up of the best games of 2007. What else did The Darkness beat out? Halo 3, Rock Band and Mass Effect, who sadly didn’t make the cut, despite one of those featuring hot girl-on-girl action. At least Halo 3 nabbed the coveted “User Pick” for top spot. Maybe similar mags Stuff or King will throw them a bone. Anyhoo, enough teasing. Here are the top ten games of 2007, as decreed by the editors of Maxim.
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 3. The Orange Box 4. BioShock 5.God of War II 6. Super Mario Galaxy 7. The Darkness 8. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption 9. John Woo’s Stranglehold 10. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
We’ll be tabulating the LOLs, ROFLs, ROFLMAOs, WTFs and GTFOs as soon as possible and plan to provide nice pie charts.
Best of 2007: Video Games [Maxim]
