How many of you have picked up even a single gaming magazine in the past couple of years? Maybe you were in a bookstore recently, and you just happened to wander over to the magazines, and you scanned the aisles until you found the gaming mags? Do any of you subscribe to one? How about several? If you subscribe to 'em, do you read 'em?
I ask because I might write a blog on the subject, and I'm interested to see the impact print media still has on the hardcore. I've been reading and subscribing to gaming mags for years, myself.
Post your answers in the comments. I'll be interested to see how this shakes out.
Here is a random picture of a puppy to reward you for being good little internet people and taking my survey.
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If they start publishing gaming magazines for the iPad I might take an interest... though frankly, it's very competitive with all the free content available that pretty much reads like a magazine anyway.
Right now, I only subscribe to Game Informer, but I'm also looking to subscribe to Nintendo Power as well.
Before hand, I had Nintendo Power and EGM.
Any information I pick up is strictly for my customers at the store.
As great as the internet is for instant gratification when it comes to game previews, I tend to think that print media is still important, because it requires that some sort of journalistic integrity and spellchecking is required before it hits the presses [yeah, i know there are numerous examples where this is not the case, but in my idealistic brain, I would like to think so].
I actually really went magazine mad when PSM came out and they were giving out playstation cover stickers (loved the smily guy with an eyepatch) and memory card stickers. Had Street Fighter Alpha 3 characters all over my memoir cards.
Overall, as Occam said, it's best when pooping. You'll never catch me on a bus catching up on the newest issue of GI. Also, I like the pictures.
Also was a subscriber to EGM since 98 until they shut down. Probably with do it again.
I do get most of my news online, but if I had to I would always choose magazines over the internet. I like to hold something in my hand and read.
Also was a subscriber to EGM since 98 until they shut down. Probably with do it again.
I do get most of my news online, but if I had to I would always choose magazines over the internet. I like to hold something in my hand and read.
I've heard good things about the new GamePro a few months back, but I haven't been inclined to sign up and take it for a spin.
But CHAD! is in this month's Game Informer, and I gladly would have purchased 23908 copies for that reason alone.
In short, print media is dead, it's not all about the internet. why get your news on a monthly basis when you can literally get it on an hourly basis? it's really unfortunate too, because print is what I'd like to go into after my j-school degree, sigh.
Yeah that might seem like a lot, but it helps me cover all my bases. I'm 30 years old and come from a time when print was still king. I honestly typically read my magazines in the bathroom, but they also really come in handy for long car or plane trips.