History Main / FanserviceCover

** Readers of SFX have complained about this for years; the bottom of the F tends to get covered a lot. When the American Film/{{Godzilla}} movie came out, they put the magazine in a black wrapper and had the subtitle "Bigger is better".

* GrimmFairyTales comcis series has a reputation of being HotterAndSexier take on classic fairy tales. But this is based solely on their covers. The actual content is just, plain DarkerAndEdgier.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' pulls this on the DVD menu, with a [[http://horror-music.narod.ru/Buffy1_meny1.jpg seductive and dangerous]] looking SarahMichelleGellar crawling towards the viewer.

* PSM used to have its own "swimsuit issue" à la ''SportsIllustrated''.

** Readers of SFX have complained about this for years; the bottom of the F tends to get covered a lot. When the American {{Godzilla}} movie came out, they put the magazine in a black wrapper and had the subtitle "Bigger is better".

* BuffyTheVampireSlayer pulls this on the DVD menu, with a [[http://horror-music.narod.ru/Buffy1_meny1.jpg seductive and dangerous]] looking SarahMichelleGellar crawling towards the viewer.

* Many issues of the ''S(cience) F(iction) X'' magazine have gorgeous women in seductive poses, with the top of their heads conveniently covering the bottom of the F, so it looked like an "E", which changed the acronym's interpretation a lot. The magazine itself has articles on things like sci-fi authors and ''BattlestarGalactica''.

* The picture is from the Holiday 2001 issue of "Playstation Magazine" (not to be confused with "Official Playstation Magazine"), which has Keira of ''JakAndDaxter'' in a [[BareYourMidriff really]] [[CleavageWindow skimpy]] SexySantaDress.
** PSM used to have its own "swimsuit issue" a la Sports Illustrated.

[[caption-width-right:245:[[CoversAlwaysLie And she never dresses like that in the actual games.]]]]

* ''Cube'' issuse 49 reviewed ''{{WWE}}: Day of Reckoning'' and to celebrate, put Christi Hemme in underwear on the cover.
* Actually invoked deliberately by HideoKojima when he marketed the original ''MetalGearSolid''. Yoji Shinkawa was contacted to draw magazine covers for game mags promoting the game, and Kojima reportedly asked him to make sure that most, if not all, of the art had at least one sexy woman in it. Shinkawa notoriously dislikes drawing women, and did [[http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-02/mgs-misc10.html an artwork made up entirely of the game's sexy women]] to satisfy Kojima, probably as reductio ad absurdium. The art campaign was even nicknamed 'Lover's Rock' by the staff, presumably after the song by The Clash about meaningless sex for the man's pleasure as opposed to genuine romance (which the game was actually about).

* [[http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/08/playcover.jpg The Play Magazine Muramasa: Demon Blade cover]] (safe for work, as it doesn't show any true nudity). While the cover does show a scene that can happen (the octopus is a bonus boss), your character will not get their clothes torn off and nearly raped like this cover would have you believe.

* ''[[http://www.t3.com/ T3]]'' magazine frequently has bikini clan women on the cover, which, by their own admission, is to stop them being placed with all the boring technical mags.

* Gay magazine ''Attitude'' does the same thing for different reasons.

* The ''SportsIllustrated'' annual swimsuit issue is basically an entire issue like this, as a big service to its fans.

** ''Play'', when they still existed, used to provide an entire ''magazine'' of pinups, ''Girls of Gaming.'' Interestingly, it was more fun to see the artists give love to obscure or long-forgotten characters (such as [[ElViento Annet]]) than it was to bask in the titillation.

* GrimmFairyTales comcis series has a reputation of being HotterAndSeier take on classic fairy tales. But this is based solely on their covers. The actual content is just, plain DarkerAndEdgier.

* One of the oldest video game examples, and a NES game to boot: ''Arkista's Ring'''s cover pictures hero Christine in a ChainmailBikini.

* GrimmFairyTales comcis series has a reputation of being HotterAndSeier take on classic fairy tales. The truth is they're DarkerAndEdgier and series earned it's bad fame from very suggestive covers.
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* The February 2002 and August 2005 "Heal Your PC" covers of ''Maximum PC'' featured a [[NightNurse babe in a nurse outfit]] applying a stethoscope to a computer.

* ''Men's Health'' is a magazine about male fitness, so they usually have, well, a [[ShirtlessScene healthy-looking man]] on the cover.

* [[http://www.t3.com/ T3]] magazine frequently has bikini clan women on the cover, which by there own admission is to stop them being placed with all the boring technical mags.

[[caption-width-right:245:[[CoversAlwaysLie And she never dresses like that in the actual games.]]

[[caption-width-right:245:[[MissedMomentOfAwesome And she never dresses like that in the actual games.]]]]

* The picture is from the Holiday 2001 issue of "Playstation Magazine" (not to be confused with "Official Playstation Magazine"), which has Keira of ''JakAndDaxter'' in a [[BareYourMidriff really]] [[CleavageWindow skimpy]] SexySantaDress with a CleavageWindow.

* The picture is from the Holiday 2001 issue of "Playstation Magazine" (not to be confused with "Official Playstation Magazine"), which has Keira of ''JakAndDaxter'' in a [[BareYourMidriff really]] [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline skimpy]] SexySantaDress with a CleavageWindow.