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Games Quarterly Gets All PDF On Boardgaming Scene

Posted by simoniker on from the hung-drawn-and-quarterly dept.

Thanks to OgreCave for pointing to the debut freely downloadable PDF issue of Games Quarterly Magazine, an also-available-in-paper magazine "devoted to non-electronic games: board games, educational games, role playing games, card & collectable games, family and general interest games!" Among the articles in this first issue are "Educational Games That Play In Under One Hour, by David Niecikowski", "Remember The Alamo? How Hollywood Inspires Gaming, by Marcelo A. Figueroa", and "The Settlers Of Catan Phenomenon by William Niebling."

10 comments

  1. PDF, the tree saver by SnoBall · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, at least it is in PDF. If this magazine were to be in paper form, the publisher would lose money if it didn't catch on quickly. Thankfully, you can still print it out and bind it yourself. :)

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    1. Re:PDF, the tree saver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      Thanks to OgreCave for pointing to the debut freely downloadable PDF issue of Games Quarterly Magazine, an also-available-in-paper magazine

      Read the article summary much?

  2. Board games are underappreciated by Nomihn0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Good ones at least. Check out board game geek if you are a player and board game designers forum if you are a designer.

    1. Re:Board games are underappreciated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah. There are alot of really fun game out
      there. This magazine is going to be good.

      my favorite currently is Zombies. :D Build the board as you go games are great fun.

  3. Mindless by mwheeler01 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    After actually looking through the magazine, I could not find one bad review or pithy comment about senseless rules or lackluster products. I can understand being enthusiastic about games but I got the impression that the whole magazine was an advertisement for every game featured. In one article they praise some dwarven forge miniature setting pieces and claim the price is reasonable. I know quie a few gamers who think theses pieces are nice but far too expensive, especially on a typical gamers budget.

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    1. Re:Mindless by clandaith · · Score: 1

      Actually, GQM is a magazine for retailers to show their customers. It is a catalog of games that are out or coming out.

      So, you won't find a bad review in the magazine. But, you flip through it and look at the new product pictures and order that way.

  4. Don't forget Classic Gamer in PDF by jeblucas · · Score: 4, Informative

    Classic Gamer magazine also moved to PDF. You can get the first PDF issue here with the second to follow shortly. I, for one, really appreciate this publishing method. They can still turn out nice product and the distribution is far less complicated. A lot of niche magazines will head this route, I'm thinking. Well, the tech-savvy ones at least.

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  5. Chicks dig Settlers by TheGreatGraySkwid · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, seriously. It's a game that you can get your wife/girlfriend/whatever involved in. They love the communicative aspects of the play. We get together to play Settlers of Cataan at least twice a month, with as many as 14 people showing up. All the spouses/SOs like to play at least as much as the guys do, so it's one of the rare events that joins both sexes in talk and play. Of course, when you've got that many people, you can't just play with a regular peanut...and thus, the Linear Trinut.

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  6. Tahya al-Moqawama al-Iraqiya! by Moqawama · · Score: 1

    Tahya al-Moqawama al-Iraqiya!

    American pigs will pay soon! Their puppet government in Iraq will pay, and their cities will burn worse than New York on 11 September!