Games Magazines

noodler

Anyone read one?

I get PSM3 regularly. I know for latest news you can usually preempt with the internet, but I do enjoy hard copies of stuff plus I find their reviews extremely fair.

Jack Sheehan

I used to buy the occasional Pc gamer magazine, back when i had a computer worth **** but not anymore. They're just too expensive and the demos you can get over live or psn anyway.

Actually i think i have a copy of pc gamer october 1998 upstairs somewhere. It has a walkthrough of half life in it.

noodler

I have a subscription to PSM3. Fiver a month is okay. I can spend hours looking up thing on the net sometime. Nice to have it all sorted in half an hour by reading a mag.

SeantheMan

PC Zone and PC Gamer every month

I used to get PSM2 back in the playstation days, threw about 50 issues out recently

super_furry

Games TM and Edge (occasionally) are the only two worth reading to my mind.

johnny_ultimate

Edge is the only one I read anymore. Hate format exclusive magazines and most of the others tend to be very immature and childish. Considering the net has all the news and reviews these days, Edge is the only one (although games tm is meant to be great too) which has interesting articles and intelligent discourse. May not always agree with their reviews, but they are always a damn fine read.

Rhyme

super_furry wrote: »

Games TM and Edge (occasionally) are the only two worth reading to my mind.

The last two games magazine i bought were these two respectively (about 3 or 4 years ago). Glad to see that they're still, at least somewhat, worth buying.

Creamy Goodness

they are all a big waste of money, i'm paying for broadband i don't need to pay more for what i can get for free with internet.

that being said if i'm travelling i will buy a copy of edge just purely to pass some time.

noodler

I have found my preference(PSM3) to be fairly objective. (numerous admissions about bad ports or the superiority of xb live)

Great read IMO, always have features on older games which are a good read.

I haven't bought edge in so long.

Someone tell me next time a really good issue comes out.

Creamy Goodness

noodler wrote: »

Someone tell me next time a really good issue comes out.

ehh, this month. next month. the month after that.

i have to admit i've never read a bad issue of it, i just don't see the need to pay for it when i have internet.

RobertFoster

I stopped getting magazines years ago. I used to get CVG, Play, the odd OPSM (UK+IE, PS+PS2), and a few others.

Always thought GamesTM were better than EDGE. EDGE, in my opinion, are up their own arses.

Ross_Mahon

I used to buy PC gamer before i had the internet, it meant i could get news about the latest PC games and software, I Could get mods, Patches, Maps, Game trailers, Wallpapers, Demos, Free software and tools which would keep me busy for weeks!

Then i was going into school with a bag full of USB hard drives and downloading everything i needed without having the internet.

noodler

Cremo wrote: »

ehh, this month. next month. the month after that.

i have to admit i've never read a bad issue of it, i just don't see the need to pay for it when i have internet.

Ah nice to see things on paper, I lose perspective looking at crap on the net sometimes.

Seeker

I get Edge every month. Sometimes I dont even read it.
Arcade Magazine was great aswell.

My favourite mag was probably N64 Magazine. N64 era was my favourite , being a Nintendo fanboy with great games and seeing the shift of franchises from 2D to 3D. Those were good times.

projectmayhem

gamesTM on occasion and Edge near religiously. i wouldn't buy a magazine for news though. i've got eurogamer, kotaku and 1up on my bookmarks for that

Sephiroth_dude

Is games for windows magazine available to buy in ireland?I cant seem to get anywhere

Retr0gamer

Used to get Games TM every month but they stopped stocking it in the local shop so don't get it anymore. It's not perfect but they were the best multiformat magazine with a great retro section. I'd get EDGE the odd time but usually regret it, they are far too pretentious and most of the articles end up boring me.

One magazine I'd always pick up whenever I get a chance is retrogamer magazine, always a great read and there's a sense of fun that is missing from magazines these days.

I've heard NGamer is a brilliant read but is unfortunately not multiformat.

Again I really preferred the magazines of old to the ones that are around today. Todays magazines are either childish affairs that spend way too much time hyping up licensed crap and wrestling games or are pretentious and often aboring like Games TM and EDGE. Was up in the attic recently and found a load of my old Arcade, Sega Power, Commodore Format and Gamesmaster magazines. They are still a brilliant read. They are very informative yet there is a good sense of fun to them with constant running jokes and banter between the writers. PC Gamer was also exceptionally good in it's heyday.

Commodore Format and Arcade in particular are fabulous publications. If there was a mag like that I'd subscribe since the sense of fun is something you don't get in online sites.

CCCP^

Games TM, especially for the Retro section. Unfortunately I've noticed the Retro section has gotten slightly smaller

Varkov

Anyone remeber an old Irish magazine, called C4 I think?

I thought it was a great multiplatform, but hten again this was around the time of n64/PSX/dreamcast.

Jack Sheehan

I mostly read Kotaku.com for gaming news.

RobertFoster

Varkov wrote: »

Anyone remeber an old Irish magazine, called C4 I think?

I thought it was a great multiplatform, but hten again this was around the time of n64/PSX/dreamcast.

It was called G4 (Games for Ireland methinks). I liked that one too. It was out every two months though, and it didn't last long unfortunately. I have a few copies lying around.

elekid

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Used to get Games TM every month but they stopped stocking it in the local shop so don't get it anymore. It's not perfect but they were the best multiformat magazine with a great retro section. I'd get EDGE the odd time but usually regret it, they are far too pretentious and most of the articles end up boring me.

I've heard NGamer is a brilliant read but is unfortunately not multiformat.

I get Games TM and NGamer every month. Games TM is a good multi-format magazine but I don't always agree with their reviews and do find it ever so slightly pretensious sometimes (but not near as bad as Edge, which I hate for that)

NGamer is brilliant, there's a real sense of fun in it that I haven't found anywhere else and even though it's Nintendo exclusive they're never afraid to point when Nintendo screw up. It's also the only magazine that can make me laugh out loud every second page thanks to the consistently witty writing. It's expensive, as most magazines are, but totally worth it as far as I'm concerned.

razorblunt

Seeker wrote: »

I get Edge every month. Sometimes I dont even read it.
Arcade Magazine was great aswell.

My favourite mag was probably N64 Magazine. N64 era was my favourite , being a Nintendo fanboy with great games and seeing the shift of franchises from 2D to 3D. Those were good times.

I used to get that was always a good laugh with pretty decent reviews, they changed editors Tim Weaver I think was his name left to go to a different mag and was replaced by the girl on the team. The next month they had a walkthrough for Tarzan the game,w hich they gave an overall result of something like 24%. I stopped buying it after that.

Just brought back that memory!

Holsten

The internet took away my need for gaming magzines... I did buy tons of them years and years ago.

I'd say I have around 500 of them up in the attic haha.

Den_M

I used to love CVG (Computer & Video Games) pre-1999, then it turned rubbish when bought by some new company. The reviews were spot on and the humour used was really off the wall.

Tusky

gamesTM is streets ahead of anything else.

Roar

i used to buy retro gamer every month but it seems to have disappeared.

nowadays i rarely buy any magazines..

I miss Amstrad Action...

eVeNtInE

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Jazzy

Digitiser :pac:

thelordofcheese

Jazzy wrote: »

Digitiser :pac:

Digi has been dead for years man, let it go.....

thelordofcheese

Tusky wrote: »

gamesTM is streets ahead of anything else.

Does anyone else find this image a bit freaky?

monument

No. Why?

thelordofcheese

monument wrote: »

No. Why?

becuase it looks to me like she has six fingers on the lolipop hand.

eVeNtInE

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superfly

i usually buy PC Gamer or PC Zone
mostly for when i'm taking a dump as the laptop is too cold on my knees

pasta-solo

Anyone remember Playstation Power? I used to love it, tried to aim itself at the 20-30 year old market, played off the whole "Playstation makes games cool" image, twas a great magazine, until it eventually changed it's name to Power and became ****e.

CapRooney

I get PSM3. I think it is a good magazine with good articles and a good sense of humour. I miss the CVG magazine. That was a brilliant magazine. Still have a good few of those magazines up in the attic! Its ridiculous that it got discontinued for gamesmaster. That magazine is the biggest crock of sh*te going!!! Every month its either a soccer game or a wrestling game on the cover i swear!!!

noodler

Here here to the PSM3 subscribers! They are rather even handed for a single format publication

CapRooney

Yeah that's why I like it so much plus it reminds me of the old CVG.

Naikon

Have Loads of these magazines(PCGAMER, PCFORMAT among others) lying around from the good old days(1997 - 2007ish):)
Don't buy them much anymore with the advent of Eurogamer etc, etc.

Vyse

I'll either get Edge or GamesTM. I always love to pick up retrogamer. It's the only one full of stuff that you won't find on current news/ reviews websites:)

Retr0gamer

just picked up a copy of NGamer along with Retrogamer and Games TM. Have to say I'm quite impressed. It has that fun element that the mags of old used to have and is what I miss about them and it's something you just don't get from gaming websites.

xbox36016

360 gamer and same thimes games th

rainbow kirby

I used to read GamesTM and Edge, but I don't read any games magazines now. Can't be bothered spending good money when there's plenty of easily accessible games news online, plus I'm not even gaming anything like as much as I used to.

smooch71

Yeah Crash and ZZap 64 are my favourites.

Sorry, that was a hundred years ago.

I think the official Playstation and Xbox magazines are probably the most informative. The independent ones give me a pain in the arse.

If you're looking for a good review of any game past or present, you can't go wrong with ign.com

noodler

PSM3 FTW! etc.

Otacon

Games TM and Edge from time to time are my purchases. I steer well clear of the OPS3M as the demo disc is absolutely useless and the articles are biased and poorly written. If I wanted to read fanboi sh!te, I'd log onto the PS3 forums!

I tend to buy Games TM regularly for the articles but as stated already, kotaku and 1up tend to be the better sources of news.

noodler

Phew I thought you meeant PSM3 there! Honestly I have never tried the official ones because in my head I can't see how they can be anything but biased. Is the official 360 equivalent as bad?

Also official ones tend to be dearer.

smooch71

True about the price but I tend to find the discs are rubbish on every magazine you buy so they just end up gathering dust. At least they don't put them in those DVD cases anymore!

I have to say I don't find the official magazines biased at all. Don't forget, they're both published by the same company, it's not like Sony are publishing one and Microsoft the other.

They'll often make reference to a game on the "other" console, and not in a derogatory manner either.

I hate the juvenile slagging off the other console rubbish that goes on with a lot of the independent mags that are aligned to one particular system.

The only decent one that covers both is Edge.

That's just my opinion

chamlis

Used to buy PC Gamer and PC Zone every month. Couldn't decide which one was better (or worse).

Realised it mostly depended on the quality of the demo disk, unfortunately both had more or less the same content :rolleyes:

Stopped last year.

noodler

Can you honestly say you have read alot of independents or are you just stereotyping? I have only read a handful (of different ones) in the last year.

PSM3 does do the whole "doesn't turn out to be the Halo beater it was sposed to be" or "not as good as live alot". Also have never mentioned RROD to my memory.