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Post by chronotigger65 on Oct 16, 2019 20:00:36 GMT -5
With Gamestop having trouble with business and owning Game Informer Magazine I feel its days are numbered and when they go GI is bound to go as well. I have had a number of magazines going away when I subscribed to them only to die. EGM, Xpert Gamer and Nintendo Power just to name a few. I'd hate to see GI go. When it does there's probably no other game magazines left or at least that I know of. So what else is there?
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Post by Nester the Lark on Oct 16, 2019 20:42:17 GMT -5
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Post by GamerL on Oct 16, 2019 21:41:48 GMT -5
I thought there was still a Xbox magazine in the US but the only one I see on that list is UK, did it just recently fold? (ironic as hell that an Xbox magazine lasted longer than a Playstation one in the US considering how much better the PS4 did than the One this gen) Not counting retro game focused ones or Fortnite ones, I guess the only ones left in the US are Game Informer or PC Gamer pretty much? I got a couple of issues of Game Informer earlier this year but then my GameStop membership ran out and I had no desire to renew it, so I guess that's the end of the road for me and gaming magazines. |
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Oct 17, 2019 7:39:30 GMT -5
I saw that list a while back, and I was surprised by just how many Fortnite magazines there are. It sort of makes sense since they seem to be kids-focused, and it seems, at least if I walk around my local supermarket, that kids magazines still manage to do okay. I can't remember the last time I saw a true gaming magazine in the wild, though. To be honest, I can't think of any advantages of having a magazine over websites these days. If anything, it's weird that they were still so prevalent ten or so years ago. But then, gaming-focused sites have improved quite a bit in that period. |
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 17, 2019 11:22:17 GMT -5
Maybe nobody cares, but Italian magazine The Games Machine is the longest-running video game magazine in the world after Famitsu, and also the longest-running PC gaming magazine ever, being established in 1988 and running continuously since then. It's also the last PC gaming magazine still being published in Italy.
Ironically it was born as the direct translation of a British magazine of the same name, which however lasted like two years and was immediately forgotten by everyone. Since then Italian TGM has been its own thing.
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Post by magic89 on Oct 17, 2019 12:29:31 GMT -5
In Poland where ive live CD-Action remain active since 1996, but in August 2018 they stop add DVD discs with Full version of games & other stuff
DVD discs are replaced by scratch cards with special code to use on magazine website. to get acess to cd-keys to full version of games.
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Post by halftheisland on Oct 17, 2019 13:00:34 GMT -5
UK here, I bought a print subscription to Wireframe pretty much the day it was announced and 24 issues in I haven't regretted it at all. Really good mix of content and about as balanced between new / retro, indie / AAA etc. as you can get. No idea how feasible it is for non-UK people to get physical copies, but they put up free PDFs of every issue wireframe.raspberrypi.org/issues |
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Post by dsparil on Oct 17, 2019 13:20:12 GMT -5
Kinda surprised that I have issue #8 of Retro Gamer (but none of the others). Seemed like a magazine that had already been around for a lot longer than that, and I never even noticed or considered the issue number before looking it up just now. I do miss print magazines in general especially the absolutely gigantic PC gaming ones in the late 90s. The longest Computer Gaming World was 500 pages!
The last magazine I did get was Game Informer up until about a year ago, and I don't miss it at all. The Nintendo coverage was always pretty terrible. I really should subscribe to those Switch ones though. It's nice having an actual physical magazine to flip through, and print layout is always way beyond a website.
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Post by ZenithianHero on Oct 17, 2019 17:18:23 GMT -5
Huh so EGM turned into a free Walmart booklet. I should see if the store in my town actually stocks them.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 17, 2019 20:58:03 GMT -5
I saw that list a while back, and I was surprised by just how many Fortnite magazines there are. It sort of makes sense since they seem to be kids-focused, and it seems, at least if I walk around my local supermarket, that kids magazines still manage to do okay. I can't remember the last time I saw a true gaming magazine in the wild, though. To be honest, I can't think of any advantages of having a magazine over websites these days. If anything, it's weird that they were still so prevalent ten or so years ago. But then, gaming-focused sites have improved quite a bit in that period. I still see game magazines at my local bookstore, but they've vanished from grocery stores, which is a big change. The last time I saw a gaming magazine at a grocery store was an issue of EGM circa 2013. In fact I don't see any "nerdy" magazines at grocery stores at all anymore, there was a time in which you could even find Anime Insider at my local grocery store, but that's long past, last time I saw anything like that was a cosplay magazine at a grocery store only a couple of years ago, but now said store doesn't even have a magazine rack at all. Huh so EGM turned into a free Walmart booklet. I should see if the store in my town actually stocks them. Is that what happened to them? I know they ceased to be a standalone magazine in 2015 and I coincidently wound up buying their final issue, not realizing it was their last, which is weird as I had ceased to be a regular customer by that point. |
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Post by X-pert74 on Oct 18, 2019 16:07:40 GMT -5
I didn't know there was a video game magazine named after me  |
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Post by jorpho on Oct 18, 2019 20:12:05 GMT -5
Magazine racks just depress me whenever I happen to look at them. So much sad vapidity, empty promises, and cheap sensationalism. Anyway, how about ol' Nintendo Force? Does that count? www.nintendoforcemagazine.com/ |
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Post by psygnosis8 on Oct 18, 2019 20:58:59 GMT -5
PC Gamer is still doing well. It’s pretty much my main source at this point. Maximum PC covers a lot of gaming hardware as well, and reviews some games.
I like PC Gamer because it curates some of the obscurities and hidden gems, many of which are free. Of course, there is no console coverage if that’s what you’re after.
Also, Retrogamer is Everywhere around here. Barnes and Noble carries it.
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Post by chronotigger65 on Oct 18, 2019 21:08:13 GMT -5
Nintendo Force might be something worth looking into. Just like to know how many pages their issues (in print) has. Like something with Game Informer's numbers or close. |
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Oct 19, 2019 0:17:51 GMT -5
Maybe nobody cares, but Italian magazine The Games Machine is the longest-running video game magazine in the world after Famitsu, and also the longest-running PC gaming magazine ever, being established in 1988 and running continuously since then. It's also the last PC gaming magazine still being published in Italy. Ironically it was born as the direct translation of a British magazine of the same name, which however lasted like two years and was immediately forgotten by everyone. Since then Italian TGM has been its own thing.
TGM has changed a lot over the years but to have survived this long it's a given. In its early days it was multiplatform and dedicated to newer, more powerful gaming systems of the era (compared to sister magazine ZZap!, centered on C64, Spectrum and the likes) but then it focused solely on computers, even kept a small Amiga corner until 2001. During their golden age in the 1990s, some issues reached even 256 pages. Mind you, there were a lot of ads but even without those, the number of effective pages was still more than the total of many other gaming magazines including a lot of ads. They suffered a lot during the craze for cover games, which made magazines just extras of the games; during that time there were also some writers with a toxic "PC Master Race" mentality. Then the strange situation of being bought by Future Publishing, their main rival magazine in Italy becoming sister, and then shortly after being sold off because Future decided to close their Italian branch. The elimination of cover games just while they were going out of fashion is said to have saved them, as their rival-turned-sister kept having them and folded in 2012. A few years ago they made a big change in which the "proper" reviews became online-only and the magazine was focused on analyzing games from other points of view, like describing the emotions felt while playing, or something like that... I stopped reading it around that time. I just know that it was a very unpopular experiment and it didn't take long to go back to a more traditional format which seems to hold up for now. Who knows how much longer it's going to last but it's true that every time detractors (like fans of other magazines) took jabs at it, it has ended up outliving all of them. |
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