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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:40 pm
by GORDON
And when talking to friends about them it's important to enunciate "GAME magazines" very carefully...
I'm currently getting PC Gamer, and it's good.
PCXL was good but it died.
"PC Games" mag and "Computer Gaming World...." I remember one of the two really sucked. Which was it?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:09 pm
by Leisher
"PC Games" mag and "Computer Gaming World...." I remember one of the two really sucked. Which was it?
It depends what you want.
PC Games is really dry, but very, very in depth in terms of the business. They do a LOT of features about the developers themselves and the issues behind the business side of PC Games. It's the one I don't subscribe to, but I do pick it up from time to time.
Computer Gaming World is more like PC Gamer but not as colorful. They are also a lot stricter in their reviews. They refuse to review betas and just recently did away with their "star" rankings for games. They do have the most entertaining column in "Tom vs. Bruce".
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:42 pm
by TPRJones
Bah, magazines are SO last century.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:43 pm
by GORDON
Bah, magazines are SO last century.
I don't have a laptop in the shitter, yet.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:53 pm
by TPRJones
Ah, well that's a valid exception, I will give you that.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 4:57 pm
by GORDON
I was at Vince's once and he was in the shitter and he sent me an IM from in there.
It was a little disturbing.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:22 pm
by Leisher
Even if I had the internet in the bathroom I'd still want a magazine. Magazines are just more organized and credible than internet sites covering gaming.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:18 pm
by GORDON
Did you know you could do magazine subscriptions on amazon.com?
I just subscribed to Computer Gaming World on amazon.
Didn't see PC Games Magazine on there... am I misremembering that one?
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:02 pm
by Leisher
There are three:
PC Gamer
Computer Gaming World (CGW)
and I thought PC Games...
Maybe they renamed it?
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:08 pm
by TheCatt
What about Electronic Gaming Monthly?
I get that one, but only cuz it was free.
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:09 pm
by GORDON
Doesn't that include console games and stuff?
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:18 am
by Leisher
Electronic Gaming Monthly barely covers PC gaming at all. It's core focus is consoles and console players.
I like EGM as they cover a ton of console games, but there writing is awful. The magazine just has no style at all and is disorganized at best in its layout.
Everytime I pick one up, I see that their letters page is filled with letters from children, a lot of their articles are written in a language for children, yet other articles and reviews contain cursing and sexual references. They're trying to appeal to kids and young adults (20-somethings) and it comes off really poorly.
By the way Gordo, we were wrong. It's not PC Games, it's Computer Games. That's the magazine that is very in-depth, but very dry.
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:55 pm
by GORDON
Ahhhh yes.
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:30 am
by GORDON
Have you noticed the PC Gamer, 6 months ago, had an entire box-out to warn you about DRM in games, and describe the type of DRM it was? You notice that for the last few months, they aren't mentioning DRM at all?
They got pressured by advertisers. And that sucks. There was a decent anti-DRM movement going there, for a while.