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Next Generation Magazine Returns
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.'"
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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And, I bet this site will be more ads then content... just like the old mag. It's hard to read real magazines, there's no Ad-Block for paper mags.
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Let's say you a have a laptop with a wlan card built in or whatever. You have a wireless network in your home. That gives you access on the bathroom, at the breakfast and even in bed.
I'm not sure about the trains though but wherever there's WiFi, you can access onlinr magazines.
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> 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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May I suggest you start importing fellow Future publication Edge from the UK? The commentary seems to describe almost word for word what Edge does. It seems like Future USA are simply using this site as a toe in the water for a full-blown launch of an Edge-style magazine. If it's successful, they'll spin it into paper format.
Otherwise it'll be canned within the year.
Future have been very bad at treating their web sites. The other staff treat the journalists like any other, but the suits see the medium as the easiest to cut when the money gets low. See: Future Gamer; Daily Radar US and Daily Radar UK. I don't expect this to be any different.