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Still buy gaming mags?

Yes 28 27.72%
 
Nope 37 36.63%
 
Gaming mags are a thing of the past. 31 30.69%
 
See results. 5 4.95%
 
Total:101
ryuzaki57 said:
I do import the Dengeki Playstation from time to time. It's expensive (15€ one issue) but the layout is beautiful and they do have very interesting exclusive information/interviews or fun creations of their own.

What site do you use to import them from? Id be interested in importing the Dengeki mag.



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Love my Official Nintendo mag. It's nice to get away from the fucking internet sometimes and it's exciting getting somethinf in the mail that isn't a bill!



I've been getting Game Informer the last few years. But it seems to have gone down hill the last year or so. I've been reading it less and less this year. I really hate spoilers, and some of their reviews I find better after I played the game.

Give anything for me and I will be annoyed with you.

Then they became so anti Microsoft, it seemed silly. More like fears, than actually making a point.

I think my subscription expired, but haven't noticed.



 

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think-man said:
ryuzaki57 said:
I do import the Dengeki Playstation from time to time. It's expensive (15€ one issue) but the layout is beautiful and they do have very interesting exclusive information/interviews or fun creations of their own.

What site do you use to import them from? Id be interested in importing the Dengeki mag.

I order via a Japanese bookshop here in Paris. I do think amazon Japan ships overseas, but the shipping costs are atrociously high.



Not anymore because contrary to my forum name I'm cheap, by the standards of the Western world anyway. I used to buy Russian mags cos I'm in the Eastern Europe, they used to be 3 usd till mid 2000s but now they have gotten up to 11 usd and that is just an inappropriate price for a magazine, I don't care how many dvds they stick to it. It's their loss, I loved reading them, especially Game.exe that went out of business in 2007.



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ryuzaki57 said:
think-man said:
ryuzaki57 said:
I do import the Dengeki Playstation from time to time. It's expensive (15€ one issue) but the layout is beautiful and they do have very interesting exclusive information/interviews or fun creations of their own.

What site do you use to import them from? Id be interested in importing the Dengeki mag.

I order via a Japanese bookshop here in Paris. I do think amazon Japan ships overseas, but the shipping costs are atrociously high.

Ah ok I wonder if we have any Japanese stores here in NZ that might sell it.



_crazy_man_ said:
think-man said:
_crazy_man_ said:
I stopped around 2005, for the exact same reason.

That and the mags I read were extremely biased sometimes.


Which mags were those?

The only one I can really remember was Electronic Gaming Monthly.  There was others but they stuck out.

Also remember a lot of Game Informer, but minus a few articles here adn there, didn't see much bias.

*slaps you*

How dare you say EGM was biased!  Biased towards whom?  Before they went out of business and came back as the abomination they are now, EGM was THE magazine!



I loved gamepro for years, then they shut down and they gave me a shitty pc magazine I let the sub die.

I just get game informer now.
nintendo power was a great mag back in the day, so was xbox magazine back when the original xbox was out, I loved the demo discs. Demo disc might as well be a tape cassette now a days. for you young ones out there they looked like this:

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly the magazine is going the same way tbh. enjoy it while it lasts before it becomes a history lesson.



 

I stopped in 2012, with the end of Nintendo Power. If it was still being published, I would still subscribe.

Great magazine, I miss getting it every month.



attaboy said:
_crazy_man_ said:
think-man said:
_crazy_man_ said:
I stopped around 2005, for the exact same reason.

That and the mags I read were extremely biased sometimes.


Which mags were those?

The only one I can really remember was Electronic Gaming Monthly.  There was others but they stuck out.

Also remember a lot of Game Informer, but minus a few articles here adn there, didn't see much bias.

*slaps you*

How dare you say EGM was biased!  Biased towards whom?  Before they went out of business and came back as the abomination they are now, EGM was THE magazine!

During the whole 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii (2005) debate there was a lot of mud slingin in the articles I remember.



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