Superb news indeed.
Imagine Publishing has acquired Retro Gamer Magazine & will be on sale 8th December. http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk
Darran Jones (editor of Games tm Retro) will be the new editor, which is really good news.
Retro Gamer Magazine is back !
Superb news indeed.
Imagine Publishing has acquired Retro Gamer Magazine & will be on sale 8th December. http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk
Darran Jones (editor of Games tm Retro) will be the new editor, which is really good news.
That just made my day - I was hoping issue 19 wasn't the last.
Official press spiel from Imagine...
Imagine acquires Retro Gamer
Imagine Publising, the innovative new specialist magazine publisher
announces today the acquisition of Retro Gamer magazine
Retro Gamer was launched in December 2003 and is the only newsstand magazine in the UK totally dedicated to covering the classic gaming scene – from ZX81 to Sega MegaDrive, from classic coin-ops to Commodore Amiga.
Published monthly, Retro Gamer is famous for delivering authoritative and in-depth articles covering every facet of the classic computer gaming scene, including developer interviews, celebrations of great gaming moments, and detailed hardware profiles.
The magazine will be re-launched by veteran games journalist Simon Phillips, who was responsible for the award-winning multiformat games magazine, gamesTM, which featured its own popular retro section. Imagine’s Creative Director Mark Kendrick, ex-Crash and Zzap!64, will oversee Retro Gamer’s new look.
“The UK has a proud gaming heritage and its retro scene is now more buoyant than ever. Retro Gamer is extremely well regarded and I am pleased that we have been able to secure its future” said Damian Butt, Managing Director.
“Imagine Publishing’s plan is to grow through a combination of new launches and
acquisitions and Retro Gamer fits well into this strategy.”
Imagine will publish Retro Gamer from issue 19, with a completely new design, editorial direction and team, though many of the magazine’s long-standing writers will continue to contribute.
The first issue will go on sale on 8 December 2005.
Imagine Publishing was founded in 2005 by three former directors of Paragon Publishing. The Imagine team have launched over 60 magazines in the last ten years, including a number of leading videogames magazines.
Name: Retro Gamer
Price: £4.99
Pagination: 116 pages
Launch: 8 December 2005
Frequency: 13 issues pa
Imagine Publishing
01202 586200
www.imagine-publishing.co.uk
Damian Butt
Managing Director
Just to say here that although many of us old RG writers are liable to be writing for it, the Retro Survival CD is still going ahead, it's off to the duplicators and is going to be sold as scheduled (though maybe a little later than advertised due to "production trouble").
Other than that, most of us trust Darran (Jones, now ex-editor of the Retro section in GamesTM as he will be editing the magazine) to run a steadish ship so it should be a better time overall than when with Live.
The press release makes it sound like GamesTM is no longer. Is that true?
Nooooo.
Nooooo.
Oh sweet! I had wondered what happened to that magazine. I thought the bookstore had simply stopped carrying it, I had no idea it was out of print!
Well, huzzah and kudos all around then!
Sweet, crunchy kudos...
Good, maybe they won't make up stories about Messiah this time.
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