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Save the dinosaurs, get free gaming mags photo

The magazine publishing industry needs your help. Actually, it doesn't -- it needs you to forget that video game news is not readily available and more current on the internet. It also needs you to muster up that nostalgia of many years of page flipping and watching those irritating little papers fall all around you. Oh, and remember that one time where they included that horribly stiff semi-cardboard advertisement halfway into the magazine so that it was almost impossible to flip through?  Those were the days, boys!

Anyway, the point is that they are struggling and need to show readership to their advertisers, even if they have to ship you the damn magazine for free, or someone with lots of white hair will take all of their toys away. We don't know that for a fact, though. Maybe they're just generous or have more money than, say, the guys that patented secure 4-roll toilet paper dispensers in public bathrooms. Those guys are next-gen; always thinking ahead of the next poop.

The point is, you can now get Games for Windows magazine for a year for free. Apparently, there's more than Warcraft out there and they have a magazine about it. Who knew?  

[Thanks Mooki Wilson] 


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pooper's Avatar
pooper at 01/20/2007 19:27
Actually got my free issues starting last month, only took about three weeks...
CannibalCalvin 's Avatar
CannibalCalvin at 01/20/2007 19:31
That sucker is going to be dripping with ads. Mmm... capitalism.
Namelessted's Avatar
Namelessted at 01/20/2007 19:34
w00. Free magazine. Must sign up for something i will never read. SWEET.
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 01/20/2007 19:35
I actually liked how some magazines had exclusive demos for some games, but now that you can download most any demo you want on XBox Live...
elrechazao's Avatar
elrechazao at 01/20/2007 19:46
games for windows is greyed out for me when it tells me to pick my choice.
Jordan Grim Devore's Avatar
Jordan Grim Devore at 01/20/2007 20:06
Is there some sort of trick that will let me click Games for Windows?
EternalDarkWing's Avatar
EternalDarkWing at 01/20/2007 20:44
I hate you Niero. It don't work. D:
AlexanderJ's Avatar
AlexanderJ at 01/20/2007 20:45
Yeah, same here, tried with I.E. 7, and Firefox. Nothing, can't select. But I love free stuff =(
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Mabec at 01/20/2007 20:50
Only US 50 states blah blah blah..
fra_diavola's Avatar
fra_diavola at 01/20/2007 20:58
Yah, same here. Besides, Im almost certain theres a "buy these 2 magazines and get this one free" thingy in there somewhere.
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AlexanderJ at 01/20/2007 21:02
I did try changing the whole job thing around, and it appears, depending on what career and job title I have affects what magazine I'm offered. I tried almost all of them and can't find Games for Windows anymore, however if you put anything along the lines of Student or unemployed for everything, you wont be offered anything and they tell you to refine your jobs.

Anyone else having any luck?
plyr3005's Avatar
plyr3005 at 01/20/2007 21:17
changing the jobs lets me see other magazines, but the Games for Windows is unclickable.
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mdvalenz at 01/20/2007 21:39
all grayed out for me too.
Matthew Mac's Avatar
Matthew Mac at 01/20/2007 21:48
Actuslly, the more I look at it, the more it looks like Games for Windows is complimentary in addition to the others.
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Maxpower at 01/20/2007 22:15
Canada always get left behind....
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LostCrichton at 01/20/2007 23:00
I keep going over the pages and choices and nothing turns Games for Windows on to choose it. I even went directly to Mercury Magazines main site and nothing...wtf?
GENACON's Avatar
GENACON at 01/20/2007 23:44
Its all a scam i tells ya, A scam...
afalker's Avatar
afalker at 01/21/2007 00:30
Stupid non-clickable magazine thing...
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Roryzilla at 01/21/2007 00:50
great now its gonna be all, "im in your e-mails spamming your boxeZ"
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DJDuffy at 01/21/2007 03:03
Don't worry about the spam, just sign-up as bob@hotmail.com...in fact if you have to sign up for free crap anywhere...just use bob@hotmail.com with the name Bob McBobby. Man, that guy must get a load of crap. I feel bad for him. No wait, I don't.
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djnexus911 at 01/21/2007 06:04
I get free gaming magazines all the time :p including this one, there are websites that will give you free magazine subscriptions if you tell them you are part of the industry or have your own business.
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