The latest (October 2020) issue of Checkpoint Magazine is now available for free. You can download it for iOS and Android here.
As always, October 2020’s issue is themed, and this month, the theme is Sports Games. Among the delights to be found behind its video-based NBA 2K21 cover are:
- Lee Abrahams uncovers the history of sports games
- Steve Boxer watches Sky Sports use sounds from FIFA 20 to create artificial crowd noise
- Nick Cowen describes how a love of sports games led to him supporting the worst NBA team ever
- Tamer Asfahani recounts how sports games helped him cope with childhood upheaval
- Codemasters’ Lee Mather describes the trials of making a Formula One game in the time of Covid
- An Industry Profile of Martin Korda, writer of FIFA’s The Journey
As with all previous issues of Checkpoint Magazine, the Sports Games issue’s finely crafted, long-form articles are backed up with embedded audio and video plus swipeable galleries. So, if you ever played a sports game, make sure you download it now: it won’t cost you a penny.
