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Official Nintendo Magazine, or ONM is the UK's official Nintendo magazine, and is published by Future Publishing. It currently goes on sale monthly and retails at £3.99, with a title of Nintendo: The Official Magazine. Issue 1 was released on 16 February 2006, after much speculation due to a recent change over from previous publisher EMAP. The magazine is the oldest running games magazine in the UK, and when launched was called Nintendo Magazine System, reflecting the NES, which was hugely popular back in the early '90s. This name would later be dropped to reflect Nintendo's move away from the NES and SNES naming system toward the N64 console.

Every issue of the magazine includes a "free gift", or premium. The long running service can include objects which range anywhere from Nintendo themed playing cards, to DVDs featuring videos of numerous games (numerous examples include the "E3 2006" DVD included with Issue 5 of ONM).

The new Official Nintendo Magazine heralded a big change for the magazine, designed with a fresh contemporary look and feel to it. Offering premium production values, the all-new Official Nintendo Magazine promised to appeal to a broader range of Nintendo gamers. The magazine attempts to provide something for everyone, from long-term hardcore fans, through to those who have recently picked up a Nintendo console for the very first time.