HobbyConsolas

{{Short description|Spanish video game magazine}}

{{Infobox magazine|

image_file = Hobby Consolas logo.svg |

image_caption= |

publisher = Axel Springer |

frequency = Monthly |

category = Computer and video game magazines |

company = Hobby Press |

firstdate = October 1991 |

circulation = 32,129 (March 2014) |

country = Spain |

based = Madrid |

website = [http://www.hobbyconsolas.com hobbyconsolas.com] |

}}

HobbyConsolas is a Spanish video game magazine founded in 1991 by Hobby Press and published by Axel Springer SE.{{cite book|author1=Miguel Túñez-López|author2=Valentín-Alejandro Martínez-Fernández|author3=Xosé López-García|author4=Xosé Rúas-Araújo|author5=Francisco Campos-Freire|title=Communication: Innovation & Quality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iK5jDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA427|access-date=24 March 2020|date=10 July 2018|publisher=Springer International Publishing|isbn=978-3-319-91860-0|page=427|archive-date=3 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003173917/https://books.google.com/books?id=iK5jDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA427|url-status=live}} The first issue appeared in October 1991. The monthly magazine offers information about games for all consoles, and since 2012 has also covered video games for PC and mobile devices. In March 2014 it had a circulation of 32,129 copies,{{cite web|url=http://www.introl.es/buscador/|title=OJD Buscador de publicaciones|language=es|work=introl|access-date=31 August 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120032313/http://www.introl.es/buscador/|archive-date=20 November 2016}} and had approximately 330,000 readers.{{cite web|url=http://www.aimc.es/-Datos-EGM-Resumen-General-.html|title=Resumen general de resultados EGM|language=es|work=AIMC|access-date=31 August 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829152238/http://www.aimc.es//-Datos-EGM-Resumen-General-.html|archive-date=29 August 2014}} Their official website is the fifth most visited Spanish video game website.{{cite web|url=http://internetmedialab.com/2014/05/27/hobbyconsolas/l|title=HobbyConsolas|last=Soto|first=Joaquín|language=es|work=Internetmedia Lab|access-date=31 August 2014|archive-date=3 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003173909/http://internetmedialab.com/2007/01/25/la-blogopolitica-en-distintos-formatos/|url-status=live}}

Listeners of the Spanish radio program Game 40 named HobbyConsolas the best game magazine of 1997.{{cite web| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010621184125/http://www.meristation.com/noticias/1998/9mar98.htm| url=http://www.meristation.com/noticias/1998/9mar98.htm|title=Entregados los Marcianitos de Oro 97|date=9 March 1998| work=MeriStation|language=es|archive-date=21 June 2001|url-status=dead}}