Game Developer Magazine, the sister publication to Gamasutra.com, has announced the availability of the Digital Edition of Game Developer, offering completely readable, browsable and searchable online archives of the leading game industry magazine for a regular subscription fee.

The official webpage webpage for the Game Developer Digital Edition has more information on the offer, and also links to an free sample edition of the online-hosted magazine, featuring the full version of Game Developer's April 2005 issue.

This particular example issue features Game Developer's 4th Annual Salary Survey, the much sought-after specially-commissioned survey which shows the current state of the industry in terms of recompense, as well as 'Jedi Mind Tricks: Choice and Consequence in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords' a postmortem of the title authored by its creators at Obsidian Entertainment, and 'Everything You Need to MMO', a trend-based article discussing what the conventional game industry can learn from MMORPGs, and vice versa.

A one-year subscription to the Digital Edition of Game Developer is $29.95, and includes a year (11 issues plus the Career Guide) of Game Developer in browsable, searchable digital online form, as well as access to the magazine's back issue archive back to May 2004 - including postmortems of titles such as Katamari Damacy, The Sims 2, Silent Hill 4, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, and a plethora of other technical articles, trend-based pieces, and regular code, art, sound, audio and business columns. A six-month trial subscription, featuring six issues of the Game Developer Digital Edition, is $19.95.

You can now subscribe to the Digital Edition of the magazine via the Game Developer magazine homepage, and conventional paper-based subscriptions for readers inside and outside North America are also still available.