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GamePro is gone and has been for quite some time. I subscribe to Game Informer. Only $15 per year. Better than nothing.
gamestops magazine 'game informer' plus 'neo geo x'
GamePro is gone and has been for quite some time. I subscribe to Game Informer. Only $15 per year. Better than nothing.
That cover is downright scary... wtf is wrong with his face?I shat when this issue came to my door.
That cover is downright scary... wtf is wrong with his face?
I'd say so: their last issue was for January 2007. I always looked forward to getting their PS2 demo discs. That was really the only reason I kept my subscription till the end, though, as the quality of their journalism and reviews tended to be shit. I remember when they gave Armored Core: Last Raven a terrible score because it was too complicated and they just wanted to play with "cool robots that shoot lasers."I used to subscribe to PSM. Did they ever make it to the PS2 era?
It's been mentioned a couple times but I want to reiterate that Edge is a pretty nice mag. It's expensive, but it's mature and takes a pretty nice perspective on gaming overall. Also has pretty nice coverage of indie games and studios.
Someone else mentioned this earlier, I just thought I would bring it up again. RETRO magazine did get funded and the first issue will be coming out this month. it looks like it's gonna be pretty cool. This will be the only US retro game magazine. They have a website coming soon, you can check it out here for now. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/socalmike/retro-the-multi-format-throw-back-video-game-magaz
Gamefan was awesome. I hated Nick Rox though. Transparent asshole.
I never had the money for gaming magazines when I was a preteen/teenager, but read PC Gamer religiously in college. Now I try to buy every issue of Retro Gamer off of the news stand. I end up missing some of them, but you can also download them for iPad for like $5 or so per issue, and the Retro Gamer app is quite nice.
Back then the only way to sample all the games is to go for video game rentals, only the ones that are truly attention grabbing are bought at retail price.
This wasn't really an option in Europe - in the UK I recall Nintendo was effectively blocking rentals by suing anybody who even tried to go down this road; some Sega games where available for rental through the Blockbuster video rental chain - but that was rather late in the game and only a small selection of titles. THere were video game swaping companies advertised in the video game magazines and I guess thats what some people did when they finished a particular game. Myself, I always really researched / read up on the games I wanted to buy and in effect for all the games I had were A-list titles which got plenty of action even after I completed them,
I don't know why I didn't think to post this before, but if anyone interested in this thread hasn't already listened to it, you should.
http://alifewellwasted.com/2009/01/23/episode-one-the-death-of-egm/
Wow, yeah, I skipped a lecture today and listened to the first 2 episodes, really worth it. Thanks for posting ALWW up.I don't know why I didn't think to post this before, but if anyone interested in this thread hasn't already listened to it, you should.
http://alifewellwasted.com/2009/01/23/episode-one-the-death-of-egm/