Video Game Mags

[dsullo]

What Video Game Mags do you subscribe too and which do you feel are the best?

Currently I subscribe to Nintendo Power, Game Informer and XBOX Magazine but I am looking for some additional summer and bathroom reading.

Thanks

Dustin

[namzep]

Currently I think the only subscription I have is to Nintendo Power. My Game Informer just ran out but I'll probably end up renewing it. I had some time left on my EGM subscription when they published their last issue in January. I also just recently picked up an issue of Retro Gamer Magazine (a UK published title) at Barnes and Noble. It's very cool but not really worth the subscription price (over $100 a year).

[BydoEmpire]

I *think* I still get Nintendo Power, I can't remember if I let the subscription slide or not. If I get a new Gamestop card and free GI subscription I'll do that, but it ran out a few months ago and I'm not going out of my way to resubscribe. I look at GI for five minutes, flip through the reviews and previews, and then throw it out. Their reviews are terrible anyways.

I cancelled my EGM a year or two ago after not being able to stomach the "edgy" direction they were taking. I don't want my print magazine turning into a series of message board posts. I did like EGM's reviews, though, and even though I wasn't subscribing it at the time I liked that they moved to the letter grade system.

[RCM]

A few years ago I subscribed to every US mag available, but don't subscribe to any now. It was tough, but I just decided not renew Play, which was the last US mag I had any interest in. The web is where it's at, plain and simple.

[InsaneDavid]

The web is where it's at, plain and simple.

Agreed, a shame that video game print magazines are all but dead however.

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

I cancelled my EGM a year or two ago after not being able to stomach the "edgy" direction they were taking. I don't want my print magazine turning into a series of message board posts. I did like EGM's reviews, though, and even though I wasn't subscribing it at the time I liked that they moved to the letter grade system.


I will miss EGM, but I also did not like the direction it was going in the final days. The pages felt very busy and it seemed like they were trying to do too much.

I'm not sure about this, but in its prime, I believe EGM helped scare developers into making better games, due to their reviews.

I still bust out some of the 90's issues every now and then. It is fun to see the excitement surrounding the new systems coming out, like the Sega CD, 32x, and Jaguar. If only they knew.

[RPG_Fanatic]

I subscribe to Game Informer, Play and Gamepro. I need something to read in the shitter. I can't just sit there and stare at the wall.

[Flack]

I subscribe to Video Game Trader Magazine, pick up Video Game Collector Magazine when I see it at stores, and get Gamepro for free still.

[dsullo]

I subscribe to Game Informer, Play and Gamepro. I need something to read in the shitter. I can't just sit there and stare at the wall.

me too. I get all my best reading done on the JOHN

[Daltone]

If you can get it, Edge magazine from the UK is a good one! I don't know if there's a US equivalent.

[otaku]

It is a shame the mags have all gone down. I am all about online as well except for Retro gamer which I read at the stands or occassionally buy cause I can't get it online and some issues are worth having. I also get game informer free because of my EB card

[RCM]

If you can get it, Edge magazine from the UK is a good one! I don't know if there's a US equivalent.

I haven't purchased an issue of EDGE since 2000, but we do get it at work. It's ok, but think it receives far too much praise.

[Rickstilwell1]

Yeah I used to get Nintendo Power. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s when I got it it was awesome. Tons of cheat codes, partial guides and all that good stuff.

I stopped getting it when I noticed that these kinds of things were not as prominent in every issue. I am one who doesn't like change much and just got disappointed with what my favorite magazine had become. I figured, I can just find out what games are coming out on the internet from now on.

After that I got Game Informer and EGM for free from buying systems at GameStop and Game Crazy, but I was never really interested in them as much as I was with the old Nintendo Power.

[Trebuken]

Game Informer
Playstation The Official Magazine
Play
Nintendo Power
PC Gamer
Xbox Magazine

If your a retrogamer you might just consider buying a lot of older magazines off of ebay. Old mags are a great way to discover games you missed...

[Jorpho]

I stopped reading Nintendo Power ten years ago when it became overrun by ads. Terrible.

[The 1 2 P]

I subscribe to:

Gamepro
Game Informer
Official Xbox Magazine
Play

I like them all and I'm thinking about renewing my subscription to Playstation: The Official Magazine.

[Octopod]

Nintendo Power

And I buy Retro Gamer but I just cant break off the big hunk of change it cost to subscribe.

[Ed Oscuro]

The glory days of print magazines are long gone. None for me. I don't really even like Retro Gamer.

[Kamisama]

The glory days of print magazines are long gone. None for me. I don't really even like Retro Gamer.

I think the same. There is rarely anything interesting these days...

I love the old gamefront magazines though. When they were still b/w and underground. These were cool!

[YoshiM]

I prefer reading magazines over news bits on the web any day. I don't need to know the latest tidbit of news or have to see the newest leaked screenshots. In fact, depending where you go, the daily news isn't all it's cracked up to be compared to the push of the early 2000's (at least in my perspective).

Currently I subscribe to Game Informer, Play and Video Game Trader but I will soon be getting signed up for Playstation: the Official Magazine and Nintendo Power again.

[hush]

At the moment i only subscribe to retro gamere and games tm i used to subscribe to more but found they all pretty much had the same stuff in them

[BydoEmpire]

Sort of related - if I could find a source for 80s Electronic Games magazine where each issue wasn't $30 (i.e. ebay) I'd be loading up on those... I only have one issue that I've held onto, and it's pretty torn up.

[spoon]

I subscribe to Play and GI.

Play-I enjoy this mag quite a bit. I like that they cover games that other mags do not. Covers are usually pretty sweet. Topics covered are different than what you see in other mags. Has a nice hobbyist/enthusiast feel to it. I'm glad they did away with the scores as well. If it was a platformer or featured a female lead, Dave Halverson was giving it at least a 9.

GI-This mag is not all that bad considering it comes with the discount card. compared to Play, this is like a juvenile 90s mag. Not that it is a bad thing. Kinda nice to have two mags that are different from each other. Of course, GI always has the best previews of any mag. I could see myself drinking a few beers and playing games with the staff.


Really though, the net is where it is at.

[skaar]

I stopped reading Nintendo Power ten years ago when it became overrun by ads. Terrible.

I apparently stopped reading long before that - I don't remember any ads in that magazine!

We never really had a reasonably inexpensive way of getting NP in Canada when I was young - every trip to the US I'd buy out all the issues I could find to bring back with me :)

[grolt]

I used to subscribe to a bunch back in the day:

Next Generation for the pure facts and technical knowhow
EGM for their curmudgen review standards (I think there were only one or two Saturn games to get a combined score of at least 9.0)
(Ultra) Game Players for the personality and the unbiased approach to all systems

I've since bought a lot of these old mags from the times where I was most interested in them (1993-1999), and while some certainly aren't the objective, hard hitting reviews I remembered as a kid, there is still a ton of good information on product developments (like tracking the life of Sonic Xtreme) that you can't really find anywhere online today. You can get all the cheats, guides, reviews, etc. but it's that timely look at in-production games that still give these magazines relevance for collectors and historians. It's kind of fun to see how perceptions towards certain games and consoles have shifted over the years, too.

I've always meant to get into Retro Gamer, but yeah, the price tag is way too steep.

[spoon]

Also wanted to add:

Who the hell has been proof reading/Editing Play recently? There have been so many typos and errors the past four months or so.

[Windy Miller]

I buy Edge, Games TM, Retro Gamer & NGamer every month & also try to get Nintendo Power via eBay, but that's becoming virtually impossible to do so.