Has the net destroyed the "games magazine" like the music ones?

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Or are there any good UK games mags? With say...actual articles or lengthy reviews/interviews?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. No.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

No.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Edge?

― save the robot (save the robot), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

The net didn't destroy music mags, Guitar Center and the 'Vintage Gear' market boom and the accompanied 'mojo' myth did.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Friday, 3 November 2006 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

vg mags always sucked. next generation and edge were half decent but nothing to get excited about. the best ones now are the ones aimed at programmers. some gamasutra articles online are pretty good, especially the post mortems, and i have a free subscription to game developer which usually has a decent article or two.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 3 November 2006 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

Computer Gaming World was great, once upon a time.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 November 2006 05:52 (eighteen years ago)

VG+/M-

― Grell (Grell), Friday, 3 November 2006 06:55 (eighteen years ago)

games master magazine was great.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

The net killed loads of magazines, when did you last see someone reading FHM or Loaded?

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

you'll never catch anyone reading those mags, aren't they read all alone, in a bedroom, with a sock?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

wanking is not reading

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Tell that to the gamespot reviewers when they read back the articles they wrote.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Zing!

I think the Official Xbox 360 mag is quite good. Better than the other one I picked up at least, which was garbage.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

I think that the Official PSX mag had that monthly demo disc in it, which was really cool. One of the discs had a hidden demo on it for some crazy-ass sci-fi cosmic fishing game, one that had absolutely no chance of ever getting translated.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I suppose the official XVox360 is good for people who like the XBox 360.

It's just my opinion, but I can't STAND that thing. I'll stop there.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

Promise?

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

Edge seconded, it is really decently written.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

Yes.. Done.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

I *did* say "seconded", dillweed.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

O ignore me, you were talkin to Darra. Haha. Damn flu.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

Game magazines have always sucked compared to magazines about almost anything else, but...

I was a Die Hard Gamefan guy in the early/mid 90s, also enjoyed Next Generation and (Ultra) Game Players.
I've got subscriptions to Edge and Play (which is where a lot of Die Hard Gamefan writers - E Storm, Nick Rox, Takuhi, Shidoshi - are now), and buy Game Informer and EGM once in a while even though they're kind of crappy, relatively speaking (esp. EGM). I only buy the official mags if there's something on the demo disc I really want to play, like Guitar Hero 2 in the latest OPM.
Also, didn't think much of Hardcore Gamer (another Gamefan offshoot, sorta) at first, but it might have some potential. Check out the beginning of their FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus review:

If you actually paid $50 for this thing, I feel sorry for you. It takes a special breed of idiot to pay full price for an offensively generic action game disguising itself as a sequel to the most overrated RPG of all time, and God help you if you were that idiot.

Heh.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 5 November 2006 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

Games mags where wicked when we were young!

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Sunday, 5 November 2006 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

Nintendo Power:

+ comics and original content stuff like that
+ letters sometimes
- NES PRAVDA
+ YEA BUT THE NES WAS THE BEST NEWAYZ SO WHY PRETEND 2 CARE ABOUT SEGA

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Sunday, 5 November 2006 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

i used to pick up Next Generation now and then.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 5 November 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I had a huge stack of Nintendo Power at one point. I subscribed from the first issue to about 1997 or so.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 5 November 2006 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

We had club Nintendo in the UK which didn't actually have reviews. Just letters from dying kids and you got a badge with Mario on it which I still have. It was mailed to your house too. Wankers.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

The UK had Your Sinclair, Zero and Amiga Power, all of which were absolutely outstanding - well written and with a great sense of humour. Magazines like those showed that you could have a computer games magazine worth reading. I dearly loved those three magazines, there was a strange kind of loony vibe throughout them that from what I can gather has simply never existed in US games mags (I may be wrong).

I strongly reccommend the following website:
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 6 November 2006 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

Maximum PC(became 'boot!' and lost all its charm) ruled.
I've only once seen a magazine more willing to rip the products in it a new asshole:
Home Theatre Magazine. Back in about 1997-99 the Home Theatre thing wasn't much beyond shit in a box, and hand-pieced together by audiophiles.
Now it's shit in a box, shit pieced together by wannabes, and mediocrity in more expensive boxes for people who want to show people their home theatres more htan use them.
In any case, they actually HAD TO review things. And they used(and still use) real testing equipment and environments.
I liked reading "...but when I got it back to my single bedroom apartment, the subwoofer was a bit hard to control.(sorry old lady underneath me!)" or something like that.
Real people that sounded real.
There'd be upt to 10 pages for FAKE shootouts where they'd just BLAST THE HELL out of POPULAR brands through thinley veiled aliases.
Bose=Hose
Optimus=Minimus

Yeah.

I've never read a gaming mad like that.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Monday, 6 November 2006 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I'm reading a gaming 'mad' right now...

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 6 November 2006 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

i play md games, yo

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Monday, 6 November 2006 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

was lamenting yesterday about the lack of video games on tv. (gamepad has just started again on ftn but it's gamepad 4, from 2003!). even cybernet seems to have disappeared from that all important 3am slot on itv. i guess there must be some on cable but...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Bring back "Bits"

As far as gaming magazines (the paper variety) go, they've always been pretty shit. I was impressed by the quality of "Edge" when I last read it, though.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

a magazine purchase these days for me is instantly regretted by the time I've flicked through about four pages. There's nothing I couldn't have found already reading on the net, I don't have to read about video games outside of my house.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

The only thing that could be classed as a magazine that I buy any more is Viz.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Sunday Mail supplement?

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Lol you read the Sunday Mail.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

lol?

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

I thought you were a Guardianista?

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

d00d, i was fucking with you

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Or was I fucking with you? ;)

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

You guys can go fuck in another thread.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ok we'll meet your mum there.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Keep this shit off my board.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, I don't pity you. my mum is 55 and post-menopausal.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

for those who want a game developer subscription for free:

http://submag.com/sub/gd?wp=free

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

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