What happened to PC gamer?

[imported_goku]

I love their magazine so much, I kick my self every day I didn't subscribe to them but now I've noticed their magazine has been getting thinner and thinner and it's really disappointing, what do you think of them?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Meh, I've never seen a gaming magazine that was worth reading aside from possibly a couple of pages. Internet FTW!

 

[blackdogdeek]

:thumbsup: for their free wow demo a few months ago. at least i think it was them.

 

[EKKC]

i think most gamers now get their news on the web.
console mags like EGM on the other hand, are not hurt by the internet as much due to the casual gamers or the non-pc savvy gamers, who still get the news from a mag.

i've been a subscriber to EGM for possibly 10 years, since in JHS. i still like the mag and its the only gaming mag i get. (i get gamepro for free, so doesn't count)

 

[buzzsaw13]

Almost every magazine has shrunk, I remember Gamepro used to be HUGE

 

[hdeck]

less pc games coming out perhaps?

 

[illusion88]

Anyone remember PC Accelerator? Witty, resourceful, and best off all, hot babes on the front cover and on the pages! :beer:

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: buzzsaw13
Almost every magazine has shrunk, I remember Gamepro used to be HUGE

lol, indeed. Even my Lego magazines used to be around one-hundred pages or so. Now you're lucky to get twenty.

Originally posted by: hdeck
less pc games coming out perhaps?

Less good ones, at least.

 

[Aftermath]

Originally posted by: illusion88
Anyone remember PC Accelerator? Witty, resourceful, and best off all, hot babes on the front cover and on the pages! :beer:

The last time I went home I picked up the issues I had floating around in the basement. (The final 15 or so.)
Great mag.

 

[touchmyichi]

Originally posted by: EKKC
i think most gamers now get their news on the web.
console mags like EGM on the other hand, are not hurt by the internet as much due to the casual gamers or the non-pc savvy gamers, who still get the news from a mag.

i've been a subscriber to EGM for possibly 10 years, since in JHS. i still like the mag and its the only gaming mag i get. (i get gamepro for free, so doesn't count)

haha yeah i've been an active reader for 10 years now too, its a great mag. I like just watching the editors change throughout the years (like shoe and crispin)

 

[Azndude51]

Mags usually either get thinner or get more ads, or maybe both.

 

[rocadelpunk]

i wish i still had my nintendo powers : (

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Meh, I've never seen a gaming magazine that was worth reading aside from possibly a couple of pages. Internet FTW!

PC Accelerator FTW!

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: illusion88
Anyone remember PC Accelerator? Witty, resourceful, and best off all, hot babes on the front cover and on the pages! :beer:

Yeah I miss them :tear;

 

[leftyman]

he grew up and got a life, he doesnt post on here to often anymore

 

[meltdown75]

i still read PC Gamer or Maximum PC and the like if I'm inside Chapters or another magazine / book store, but I rarely buy them.

there's just too much content on teh intran3ts to be buying magazines for a poor sucker like me!

 

[SpunkyJones]

Magazines like PC gamer are still usefull for me in the "throne room".

 

[ultimatebob]

Gaming magazines tend to get really thin around the March and April issues, but get a lot thicker around the December issue. Most of the new games get shipped around Christmas, so that's when you get the most games reviewed.

Hell, most of them even have a special "Holiday" issue just to hold the extra reviews around Christmas.

 

[nakedfrog]

Less ad revenue for magazines on the whole, I believe. Apart from the girly magazines.

 

[Ramma2]

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
i wish i still had my nintendo powers : (

I've got some to sell if you're interested.

 

[rocadelpunk]

Originally posted by: Ramma2

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
i wish i still had my nintendo powers : (

I've got some to sell if you're interested.

heh thanks, but don't have money to spend on stuff like that : P

no room either :0

 

[RandomFool]

Originally posted by: illusion88
Anyone remember PC Accelerator? Witty, resourceful, and best off all, hot babes on the front cover and on the pages! :beer:

I remember them, ahhhh good times...I used to love computer games, but I stopped playing pc games so kill my subscription.

 

[Kroz]

Not that much happening in the gaming world. So unless they write reviews of things that don't exist. There is no content. :/