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Electronic Gaming Monthly Coming Back
skulluminati writes "It looks like the late, great, gaming mag EGM, which was canceled earlier this year by publisher Ziff-Davis, will now be making a comeback. Steve Harris, the founder of EGM, has acquired the trademark and publishing rights to the magazine. As a reader of EGM for 19 years (almost since the beginning) it is great to see the brutally honest, independent voice of the gaming community rise from the ashes."
I never had a subscription to EGM though I did borrow them from my friends and accept old copies to pour over as a kid. To me they were the first game magazine to really put an effort into the layout and design of the magazine ... and also use very high quality paper. This was reflected in the price and I recall having a subscription of PC Gamer (at $20/year) which paled in comparison.
... but at least they'll be nice looking ads and hopefully be kept out of the articles by a well defined line of self respect.
The one problem I had with EGM was the ads. There were so many of them. I grew up on a farm where I read my magazines cover to cover and sometimes more than once. Although the ads in EGM were very well done and artsy (usually) they did get to be a bit much. Sometimes it felt like I had a three pound advertisement of glossy photos in my hands. EGM sometimes felt like my older sister's Vogue magazines: 90% ads because the consumer actually liked them. Now, PC Gamer was by far worse (I suspected most of the articles being written by a worker for the company of the product being reviewed) and I'm not even sure that's around anymore.
I kept every single one of my Popular Mechanics magazines. You will not find a single PC Gamer though or any of the old EGMs.
I appluad EGM and hope they make it back. I often enjoyed their lists and articles, I must admit I wouldn't have noticed if they had gone under aside from the Slashdot articles.
I also assume this means more ads since that model is getting harder and harder to sustain
My work here is dung.
it's a much bigger deal if you drop your laptop when you are on the shitter
But in the winter time, the electronic lap warming version may have an advantage of its own.
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Print is dead.
Oh, that's very fascinating to me. I read a lot myself. Some people think I'm too intellectual but I think it's a fabulous way to spend your spare time. I also play raquetball. Do you have any hobbies?
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Will my original subscription which was supposed to run through the end of the year be continued? Or was it conveniently lost?
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
I paid for a EGM subscription and I'll pay for it again. I like not having to squint at someone's ridiculous font. I like turning pages. I like not having to "Next Page" through fifteen pages of website ad bullshit to read an article that wouldn't even take up one print page. If I'm sitting somewhere for less than 10 minutes I'd rather pull out a magazine than get my laptop out and mess with it.
I like large pictures, not the ones on websites that you can't see "What is that? Oh great, I can't enlarge the photo". I have disposable income. When I'm done with it I can roll it up and use it to start a fire in my nice brick fireplace, can you start a fire in your nice brick fireplace with a website?
I don't have to read comments, OH GOD I DON'T HAVE TO SORT THROUGH "FIRST!!!!, YOU SUCK, LINUX RULES, WINDOWS 7 IS THE BESTEST" or any other horseshit.
I can roll it up and swat my dog on the butt when he's bad. If I'm ever in a knife fight with some highly skilled assassin in Germany I can use it to defeat him. When I'm hot (like with this fucking laptop on my lap) I can use it to fan myself. When I'm cold, I can tear the pages out and stuff them in my clothes. Magazines make great temporary coasters, dustpans, non-sticking thing to breakup pot on, and in going with the above themes...toilet paper.