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Title: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: PMY on April 15, 2011, 06:02:47 pm: Which online (or print) game magazines do you usually read and why? I mean primarily English language magazines.

Watching my favorite game magazine (its title won't say you much since it is non-English) getting more and more biased and boring I decided to look out for some alternatives. However, I didn't find any after a brief study of the local gaming press market - neither among print magazines, nor online (some have a biased reputation, some have a terrible design which make me sick and some simply don't have articles interesting to me). That's why I started looking out for English language magazines instead. The problem is I know very little about them to choose the right one and I don't have much time to read lots of them every day. So I need your opinions on this matter. Which one do you think is the best? And why?
Title: Re: Game magazines - what can you say about them?
Post by: The E on April 15, 2011, 06:31:30 pm: Rockpapershotgun -- because they love us! Oh, and the writing's pretty good too.

kotaku -- because it works as a feed aggregator for me

Eurogamer -- Because the eternal ((PS3 vs X360) vs PC) flamewars on Digital Foundry are fun.
Title: Re: Game magazines - what can you say about them?
Post by: General Battuta on April 15, 2011, 06:56:28 pm: Kotaku has kind of gone to **** recently.
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: MR_T3D on April 15, 2011, 07:19:30 pm: Quote from: General Battuta on April 15, 2011, 06:56:28 pm
Kotaku has kind of gone to **** recently.
that change in their format is still offensive to my eyes
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: Zacam on April 15, 2011, 10:43:37 pm: Game Informer (http://www.gameinformer.com/)
This one works for me pretty well. I even get it in print.
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: Beskargam on April 15, 2011, 11:09:35 pm: as above game informer. worth it
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: Grizzly on April 16, 2011, 02:21:18 am: Rock Paper Shotgun is quite awesome.
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: BloodEagle on April 16, 2011, 09:32:19 am: The Escapist has a few columns worth following. Although the rest of it is tripe.
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: MR_T3D on April 16, 2011, 10:13:59 am: Quote from: BloodEagle on April 16, 2011, 09:32:19 am
The Escapist has a few columns worth following. Although the rest of it is tripe.
I dunno, I'd argue the only thing there that's good is ZP, and that's in a purely entertainment sense.
well, unskippable is sometimes decent.
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: Mongoose on April 16, 2011, 03:19:34 pm: The Extra Credits series there is fantastic too.
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: BloodEagle on April 16, 2011, 08:24:30 pm: I want to like Extra Credits, but I can't. It always comes so close (in the few that I've watched) to making valid arguments and/or observations (and in some cases does), before ruining it with a 'LULZ-MY-OPINION-IZ-TEH-FACTZORS' moment.

Extra Punctuation tends to be a little less for-the-sake-of-humor than Yahtzee's videos:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation

Experienced Points is the second best thing on the entire site:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/experienced-points
Title: Re: Game magazines -- need opinions
Post by: Scourge of Ages on April 17, 2011, 12:45:18 am: I subscribe to PC Gamer and Game Informer. PC Gamer because it is awesome in reviews, style, and cleverness; Game Informer because it's the only all-encompassing video game (print) magazine since EGM died.
I don't read online things much, since it's hard to do that while I eat lunch or use the restroom.