Bazinama is the first video game magazine in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 which published since 2002 with efforts of a group of young people who were interested in this new industry in Iran. At that time brand of Bazinama just represented as a video game magazine but today Bazinama works on other aspects of gaming world such as having its popular game web site and having Bazinama shop center and designing domestic video games.

History

The magazine was launched in 2002 with donyaye narmafzar title by Nariman faramarzi. After 4th issue and meanwhile the magazine was publishing every two month, Omid mehdipour and Farhad karimi joined as editorial manager and author of the magazine. After 12th issue, omid mehdipour left the magazine and Mahmoud beladi, who had some resume about video game magazines managing, appointed as editorial secretary. But after the 18th issue he joined Bazicom magazine and Bazinama group again encountered some changes. Farjam koliyayi who were known as "babaye barbod" or Barbod’s dad had some activities about 10 issue timeline for Bazinama (from issue 24 to 34) after that "mohammad mirzayi" start his carrier in magazine as editorial secretary until today. during these years Bazinama publishing under presidency of editorial council which has nariman faramarzi, Mohammad mirzayi and Vahid youssefi on board.

Magazine

Since publishing until now the magazine had some parts which added or removed during these years, at this moment magazines main parts consist:

Review

This part is about reviewing latest released games, manner of scoring have changed, currently scores are from 0 to 10 and every review express good and bad point of each sector of game independently.

Preview

At this part of magazine author write about feature of games that will release soon also there is pictorial part in there.

Entertainment

A part of magazine which introduce you new ways of entertaining. At this part you cant find any sign about video gaming.

Hardware

At this part author introduce new state of art PC systems or guide you about buying console and accessories.

There is times that gaming world encounter great and international expos like Electronic Entertainment Expo or Tokyo Game Show

Tokyo Game Show

The , commonly known as TGS, is a video game expo / convention held annually in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan. It is presented by the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association and the Nikkei Business Publications, Inc...

Bazinama magazine publishs an extra coverage issue just for each of these expos every year. it includes two optional DVDs including HD game trailers, PSP and NDS demos and a bonus classic PC game and also every issue of Bazinama has wallpaper of latest games.

Website

Bazinama’s web site created in order to having closer communication with its fans, while the web site was not old enough in compare with other domestic gaming web sites, it gained attention of Iran’s gaming population sooner than it expected .It starts its activity with a forum and its main page but after a while more options added to .Bazinama’s web site currently has more than 90000 member now and considered as the greatest gaming web site in Islamic republic of Iran and middle east.

Video game Design

In recent years and in order to expanding its activities, Bazinama group decided to design a video game with help of sophisticated people in different fields and now it designed "sarah’s new life" game the group now focused on an other projects.

Conferences

Every year and with efforts of Bazinama group that based on video games establish .in this conference video game experts talk about new features of today’s game industry.

Attending Expos

This group generally have been attended many expos but had large coverage on Gamescom

Gamescom

gamescom is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is organised by the Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware...

 2009 Dubai Game World Expo 2009 & 2010
And also Bazinama attend domestic expos, one of the experiences was establishing one of the most visited booths in "Elecomp" gaming expo.

Worldwide Goals

We can mention Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

, Square Enix

Square Enix

is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...

, Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...

, Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks, LLC, is an American video game company. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland...

 and Activision

Activision

Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...

 as those foreign studios which Bazinama get some artworks, articles and covers from them exclusively. Bzinama’s co operation with Bethesda studio goes back to Games Convention

Games Convention

The Games Convention, sometimes called the Leipzig Games Convention and abbreviated as GC, was an annual video game event held in Leipzig, Germany, first held in 2002. Besides video games, the event also covers Infotainment, Hardware, and Edutainment...

 2008 expo.
Some branches of this co operation are:

1. Designing the cover of 62nd issue by Bethesda studio
2. Exclusive preview of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
   The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
   The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls action role-playing video game series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion...
   
   for 64th issue of the magazine