Videogame magazines - what do you like about them the most? No negative replies

Don't be talking trash about how "bad" or crappy you think the articles are or whatever in the videogame magazines. Its a shame some of them are dying off like Nintendo Power while EGM is still hanging around in newsstands while Playstation Magazine and Xbox magazine have more copies at stores.

This weekend Im going to be doing some shopping and I will be buying either the August issue or the new September issue of Nintendo Power when I go to Walmart and Kmart to see what they have.

And I mean no negativity towards videogame magazines

i don't much care for most of the articles

it just helps me know whats comming out and when

I love videogame magazines, if you grew up with EGM and Nintendo Power you know there'snothing like reading them. I have a sub to OXM, and I usually pick up PSM or EDGE every month too.

man the 1990s EGM/Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine was built thick like a phone book. Mostly the stuff they had for reviews or articles about games were all text taking up like a bunch of pages, right? Man those were the good old days.

Wish there was a website where you could view the pages of an old EGM/Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine to remember what they looked liked. I know the text was like white on a bronzeish type background in the pages?

Does anyone else read the digital editions of magazines?

I love the new interactive digital edition of Edge (the only issue shipped thus far has Two Souls on the cover). Some screenshots are short bits of video and others allow you to touch one image and then open up a gallery. I don't even bother to read their reviews, but I enjoy reading their broader coverage of the industry. Alongside the standard details previews and interviews, they go to a lot of interesting trade events which don't get coverage elsewhere and talk to a lot of people with interesting perspectives on the industry.

I also subscribe to the digital edition of OPM. It is pretty much a print mag in a digital format (no interactivity or moving images) but the images are so sharp you can shave with them and they are much cheaper than Edge so I can't complain. What do I enjoy about OPM? Games coverage I suppose. Since they cover only Playstation games they tend to cover games others miss and cover those games in greater detail. They are competent reviewers, though its worth noting I've been an avid gamer for three and a half decades so while I expect a reviewer to give their honest opinon, I care more about the facts informing the opinions.

I also subscribe to Game Informer (I don't have the digital edition just yet, one day I am going to invest the five minutes of effort needed to switch my subscription over). They get a lot of exclusives and they offered some incredibly detailed previews. They are also competent reviewers.

I subscribed to Qore (and the Playstation Underground before it) up until it was cancelled earlier this year. It was an interesting phenomena. They covered four games per issue. Coverage consisted of a 5-10 minute interview with lots of gameplay footage (often never seen before) mixed in, a gameplay trailer and often concept art.

Back in the day I was fond of EGM, Gamefan (they were crazy but the paper sure was pretty), The Unofficial Xbox Magazine, Play (the deceased American magazine which was pretty much a Gamefan clone, not the existing, unrelated European magazine), Next Generation (the deceased US sister magazine of Edge) and the original Official Playstation Magazine (made by a completely different team and offering much deeper coverage in their previews).

Some magazines were better than others, but as a videogame fanatic I judged them all worth reading.

Even to this day I still have my heavy stack of original PlayStation magazines from back when I lived in Europe. I definitely liked getting the latest issue every week because that was basically the only way to get the most recent news on everything PlayStation. This was also before the Internet became as big as it is now.

I LOVE the U K Video Game mags the Best. You pay a little more but the Mags are Great.

Oh, and I forgot to mention: DEMO DISCS!

At a time before the popularity of the Internet, what I loved about video game magazines are the pictures and the information they provided. As an early subscriber to Nintendo Power (the first issue brought me fond memories), I enjoyed learning about new or existing games and most of all, information about secrets and secret codes (things that no longer appear in Nintendo Power due to the Internet).

It is a shame that Nintendo Power will fold soon and other gaming magazines will soon follow. There is something about gaming magazines that one cannot get even for free on the Internet.

Update; since I made this post, I learned that another Nintendo-centric magazine will also fold: Nintendo Gamer, a U.K. publication. Both Nintendo Gamer and Nintendo Power are owned by Future and its U.S. subsidary Future US.

No negativity? Are you that sensitive you can't be open to other opinions?

I can't think of a reason why I'd subscribe for a video game magazine. The articles are a joke, and there isn't any news you can't get on the web....

For their time I'm sure they were fantastic but I don't really see the use for them now.

No negativity, are you that sensitive you can't be open to other opinions? I can't think of a reason why I'd subscribe for a video game magazine. The articles really aren't worth reading, and there isn't any news you can't get on the web.... For their time I'm sure they were fantastic but I don't really see the use for them. chilly-chill

I just prefer the physical feel of it. I can read them anywhere. And Edge covers are too good to be digitised

I just prefer the physical feel of it. I can read them anywhere. And Edge covers are too good to be digitised

OB-47

Have you seen the new digital edition of Edge? Its better digitized.

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I just prefer the physical feel of it. I can read them anywhere. And Edge covers are too good to be digitised

CarnageHeart

Have you seen the new digital edition of Edge? Its better digitized.

Nope. What's good about it?

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I just prefer the physical feel of it. I can read them anywhere. And Edge covers are too good to be digitised

OB-47

Have you seen the new digital edition of Edge? Its better digitized.

Nope. What's good about it?

I LOVE the U K Video Game mags the Best. You pay a little more but the Mags are Great.

Easports48

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Have you seen the new digital edition of Edge? Its better digitized.

CarnageHeart

Nope. What's good about it?

That sounds great! Got me quite interested in it. Now if only I had an iPad.....

The pictures and previews mostly. The articles and reviews are rarely worth reading.guynamedbilly

Oh, and I forgot to mention: DEMO DISCS!

Amster_G

I like the pictures and some time they would put a nice poster in some issues. I used to read Nintendo Power. Now I read PTOM. Info on up coming releases is pretty good. Articles are rather informative.

I only read PC Gamer, Game Informer and Nintendo Power, nowadays. I do try to read most of the articles if I have time, but I mainly read them to find out the features of new games and get a critic's opinion on a new game.