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Next Generation Magazine Returns

Posted by Zonk on from the like-a-phoenix dept.

The Video Game Ombudsman has word that Next Generation magazine will be returning as a website. The site will apparently be focused on the business and development sides of the industry, and avoid a pure consumer focus. From the article: "The official announcement will come in a press release any day now, but the Web site reveals a lot of information about the new incarnation. The site will be managed by editor-in-chief Colin Campbell and consultant editor Christian Svensson, who co-created the Next Generation Online site back in 1995, and published by Future USA. Besides the two editors, most of the content will come from freelance contributors, which the site is actively seeking. The site says it's looking for writers that "have strong opinions" and are 'stylish, original and witty.'"

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  1. Raise your hand... by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Raise your hand if you have been laid off, or know someone who has been laid off, by the publishers of Next Gen magazine. (It was Imagine Publishing, then Imagine Media, and now parts have been spun off or renamed to be "Future USA").

    Those people were like the EA of the gaming magazine world. It wasn't at all unusal to see 50 people (out of 200 employees) laid off one day, and 50 people hired the next day to work on some new magazine, only to get laid off one year later, with 50 people hired the next week to work on some new-new magazine.

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  2. Excellent News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    I'm glad to hear NextGen will be back in some form. I was upset when NextGen kicked the bucket, I had subscribed for much of its lifetime. It seems NextGen was the only gaming mag that recognized that people over 12 play video games (maybe that's still true today). The writing was good, and most issues were absent of the dick and fart jokes you see in every issue of all the other gaming mags. Its sister website DailyRadar was decent, though it lacked some of the maturity of NextGen.

    Best of luck to the new site!

    1. Re:Excellent News by ghostlibrary · · Score: 2, Interesting

      > It seems NextGen was the only gaming mag that recognized that people over 12 play video games

      "Computer Gaming" took up the mantle. They specifically talk about how hard it is to not just give in to payola reviews, fart jokes, and cheap humor.

      They also have the best parody ads I've seen. They do a good job, check 'em out at the newsstand.

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