Kotaku: Computer Gaming World

Games For Windows Moves Online

Mark Wilson — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:40:00 MDT

Games for Windows: The Official Magazine (formerly known as Computer Gaming World) has announced that the publication is pulling from the printed market to be hosted at 1UP.com. Games for Windows itself only made it through 17 issues before ceasing traditional publication.

Despite knowing that my own place of work is part of the cause greater, the death of so many print publications is unfortunate. So in the midst of all the "great opportunity" euphemisms, it's refreshing to see editor-in-chief Jeff Green liken the experience to " the passing of a loved one" with unrestrained melodrama. Those with standing subscriptions will be contacted shortly.

Games For Windows Magazine Moves Online [1UP]

100 Issues Of Computer Gaming World, Free

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:04:45 MDT

I was shocked when a co-worker brought in the most recent issue of Computer Gaming World, which happened to be the magazine's 25th anniversary edition. Holy crap! Twenty five years? Just one more thing to make me feel old.

It also happens to be the final issue of CGW, before the pub is retitled Games For Windows: The Official Magazine, inline with Microsoft's branding efforts to homogenize and publicize the Windows gaming platform.

Good news for cheap (and nostalgic) PC gamer types is that the folks at CGW have, with the diligent help of Stephane Racle of the Computer Gaming World Museum, archived the first one hundred issues in PDF format. And they're free. For you. To download.

Classic stuff that's fun to look back on, and in our cynical tradition, mock incessantly. Michael McWhertor

Computer Gaming World Archive

Free 1 Year Subscriptions to Gaming Mags

brownlee — Mon, 22 May 2006 09:40:41 MDT

Although gaming sites have made a lot of publications rather laughably obsolete, most of us don't have a dedicated laptop to wifi with when we're on the toilet. Toilet readability is the true power of print, the one the Internet can't topple until we're jacking in directly with our brains. Perhaps even then, print will still reign supreme: after all, we likely will not be able to plunk our dripping cybernetic brains out of our skulls to sponge ourselves with when we're running low on Charmin, but a handful of paper will always do in a literal pinch.

So in case of such an emergency, how would you like a free subscription to Computer Gaming World? Or EGM? Or The Official Playstation Mag? It all seems to be legit, although the caveat is that any time you give someone your address, you may find yourself getting more spam. Still, three gaming publications for free seems like it may be worth the risk. - Florian Eckhardt