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Ziff Davis recently canned the paper version of PC Magazine, and now it may stop printing Electronic Gaming Monthly.
Throughout it's history EGM has had a strong following and is renowned for breaking news and rumours before other publications. Gamasutra notes that Ziff Davis's CEO Jason Young stated "the company was considering taking its other print magazine, the video-game publication Electronic Gaming Monthly, into an online-only format, but would not make a decision before the end of the year."
The online and offline team recently worked together freely, with the publisher's main focus growing towards the online area, and with that it mind it could be likely that the magazine will be taken off the shelves in 2009.
Should gaming magazines go online only, or should they remain in print but try to offer something a little different? Do you still grab hold of your monthly read?
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Some gaming magazine's aren't even worth reading anymore because they're usually out of date by the time of release(due to printing times) and their reviews and features always eventually come online, even within a few weeks (like ONM) so yeah, they should be online, but then some people still don't have the Interweb.
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Stulaw said:
Some gaming magazine's aren't even worth reading anymore because they're usually out of date by the time of release(due to printing times) and their reviews and features always eventually come online, even within a few weeks (like ONM) so yeah, they should be online, but then some people still don't have the Interweb.
Some gaming magazine's aren't even worth reading anymore because they're usually out of date by the time of release(due to printing times) and their reviews and features always eventually come online, even within a few weeks (like ONM) so yeah, they should be online, but then some people still don't have the Interweb.
That's very true - they're only really useful for reviews and exclusives, which are very hard to keep with gaming sites pretty much breaking 90% of important news.
Perhaps smaller, gaming weekly papers (like MCV) could be a good route to take. Cheaper to produce, and more recent.
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Would be a real shame though to see the physical magazine going out of fashion though, I mean I personally like actually reading the printed versions and having them to hand.
But it would seem that they will eventually go all we can hope for is that the games sites present themselves well and have the same standards for the works they print.
The weekly idea sounds good but wouldn't it still be a little slow? Just wonder if there is any real future for printed mags.
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But it would seem that they will eventually go all we can hope for is that the games sites present themselves well and have the same standards for the works they print.
The weekly idea sounds good but wouldn't it still be a little slow? Just wonder if there is any real future for printed mags.
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Thats the problem with todays society. Theres no self control over everything.
I remember when people just went out on a saturday night.
Now they go out on monday night, thursday night, friday, saturday. it's crazy.
I used to to puy PS1 magazines back in the day. and I'd love the anticipation of being able to read a new magazine. But now people want everything straight away. nothing to look forward to.
I remember when people just went out on a saturday night.
Now they go out on monday night, thursday night, friday, saturday. it's crazy.
I used to to puy PS1 magazines back in the day. and I'd love the anticipation of being able to read a new magazine. But now people want everything straight away. nothing to look forward to.
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