"Eeew! Hardcopy." - Eugene Belford A.K.A. "The Plague"

Does anyone actually buy mags for month old news anymore?

Too bad the actual people affected by this won't get the money. So who does? Government? MySpace? If they divied that up to the users that would be $400-$1200 per email.

Wasn't there a Joystiq "one free month of Computer Games Magazine" giveaway just a little back? Will this affect those people?

And why do people use myspace anyway? It's all just goth and emo kids making shitty HTML + javascript cut'n'paste webpages on a shitty template.

I hate myspace.

NO!
Computer Games was my favorite magazine!

This sucks. :(

some myspace pages are pretty hot when they get into DIVs and stuff like my cousin's buddy's band myspace.com/theendofaugust
hot page

Print publishing has been on the decline, anyway. I hate seeing one of these magazines go down, but it's a matter of "evolve or die." In related news, Joystiq.com seems to be doing pretty well with readers. And hopefully they don't spam people (no sympathy at all).

Can't we just abolish MySpace?

...Please?

Anyone know how the magazines that are actually worth reading are doing these days, like GamesTM or Edge?

@Au

I'm not friends with any goth or emo kids so myspace doesn't bug me. I hate instant messenger so myspace helps me keep in touch.

Man, I wish every company that sent spam got shut down. I get a fuck load of emails from University of Phoenix. I wish they'd get sued and go bankrupt.

I buy the Nintendo commerc...I mean Nintendo magazine "Nintendo Power". I've been a member since the Nintendo Fun Club news days and I just like knowing I have every issue and low membership number. I probably haven't gotten actual news from this magazine for 10 years, but it's only about $20 a year and it's fun to flip through. It makes great bathroom reading, and it improved a lot when they changed it up about a year ago.

Now I'm going to sound a little but like one of those people who stubbornly refuses to admit that CDs are superior to vinyl. I sometimes miss the days where gaming info wasn't as easy to get. Once a month I'd get a factual tidbit on some upcoming game or, better yet, the upcoming next generation system. You'd get a vague idea when the item would arrive and then it would be a surprise when you actually found it on the shelves. Now with the internet you get this constant flow of the tiniest details of what's going on and interesting rumors that may or may not be true. Rarely is anything a surprise anymore, and when it is (like the Revolution's controller annoucement in 2005) you then wait a year or more to actually experience it for yourself.

Steve,
This is off topic, but I have to say... I still have the very first Nintendo Power at home. It's still in okay shape, considering the years. Of course I dropped the subscription in the early 90s.

While I understand and agree with all the speculation on the death of print magazines I have to say this is still dissapointing. Computer Games was one of the few (possibly only?) magazines that didn't cater to the assinine spike TV demographic that the gaming community is stereotyped into. Heavy on text and ideas, low on screenshots and gratuitous swearing this mag will be missed.

I'll be looking for where the writers go though, Cindy Yans, Steve Bauman and Tom Chick are some of the best gaming writers out there.

PC Gamer is a very good publication for those who this news is peeing on.

Damn that's sad to hear! I subscribed for 1 yr to CGW back in '98 - '99. It was awesome b/c they were more trustworthy with their reviews. I.e. for CGW's reviewed games, 85% of them were 3/5 stars or below. Another typical mag reviewing roughly the same games would've givena 85% of those games a score of 80% or above. That mag was also how I heard of some really obscure, less advertised, but awesome games like Twinsen's Odyssey (aka Little Big Adventure 2) and Archamedean Dynasty (underwater sub simulation). Most importantly, those games listed specs, which ran well w/my dad's P75MHz with 8MB RAM.

I subscribed to CGW again 2006, simply b/c it was only $2 (beautiful deal offered after purchasing memory from Crucial.com). Still have the mags, but only read about one whole issue's worth of it (spread across several issues)

It's sad to see it go. Sure PC Gamer will still be around, but I was always happy to know that CGW and PCG were keeping each other competitive and on their toes.

I guess lots of people here have not touched a gaming magazines in some years... It's as ridiculous as saying people shouldn't buy financial magazines and just watch the financial news instead. Or never buy sports magazines and just watch ESPN all day...

In 2007 any good magazine focus on more in-depth sujects, analysis, interviews, etc... They also have news but they can't just rely on that.

Oh and btw, if magazines *always* have months old news... could someone explain me where can I get info about the next Guild Wars 2 on the net? The new PC Gamer is gonna be out in a couple of days with a cover story on this....

LMAO at post #5 by arrrgh

RIGHT after someone said myspace was full of goth and emo kids he links to a total emo band, lol.

Sucks about the mag, though. I always liked that one.