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07/05/09
Personally, I felt that EGM were best under the hands of Harris, Semrad, and others (some of whom played the roles of "Sushi-X", "Quarterman" and "Terry Aki".)
With the fall and rebirth of EGM (and it's smart approach to multi-integrated media - MIM) , the direction of EGM will probably be familiar with those of us that remember the original roots of the magazine from it's days in Illinois (read: Not the Ziff-Davis era), the advent of writer-personalities (that didn't feel like GamePro's knockoffs -- Sushi-X Versus Slasher Quan)
At the same time, the integration of other mediums attract Kotakuites, Joystiqers, and other newer gaming readers, while potentially attracting the X-Play crowd as well.
I see this as a win, for both the gaming affectionado, and Steve Harris.
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EGM is still dead to me. Way to kill off print, bastards.
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I don't have something big enough to read print on the toilet and I'm NOT buying a laptop. ):
07/03/09
I would assume that you register an account and then input codes for individual magazines or, if you have a subscription, the content is automatically unlocked as long as your subscription lasts.
This is a good format and fully embraces both the versatility of print and the ease-of-access and multimedia richness that internet and mobile media provide. This is a great strategy and is something that newspapers should bee glancing an eye towards.
07/03/09
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I hope you understand, because we can't have it like this!
Sincerely,
/Jack Thompson, CEO of Linguistics
07/03/09
Secondly expect somethign simialr to this - [issue.igizmo.co.uk]
It's an experimental magazine by a UK publisher.
You still get the mag layout, but unlike a paper mag it has little countdown clocks, videos n various other bits n bob's, quite cool, just not massively huge, and not really many full scale articles. it's also got a lot of ad's on it, but then these guys ain't charging for this, so the ad's pay for their experiment.
So expect the digital side of this to be similar, cos paper based mag's can't have the latest game trailers, proper links to websites etc. And it would work fairly well in an iPhone App layout.
07/03/09
It's absolutely outrageous. I can see them getting away with it because it is a new market, but damn, they do every design-flaw known to man for the sake of making everything "flashy" and "cool"
And then things starts shining, moving in irregular intervals, and all having different intervals, which annoy your eyes.
And no consistency! It's like the idea of people knowing it is just one magazine they are looking through is nonexistant. There's colors everywhere, cluttering, and fonts, which along with the flashing and the moving makes things LESS readable.
Then there's the fact you can't make apart what are adds and what are actual articles.
Videos, great idea. Not so when they start by themselves and feature a bloke who keeps jumping around more than Mario did in the credits to the Super Mario Show. Yes, the one with real life actors.
Sorry, but in all my years of studying and doing graphical design, that is one of the worst examples of anything I've ever seen.
I put it on par with a website with clearly visible tables and cluttered with gif-animations and things that follow your mouse-pointer
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07/04/09
I feel like stopping to try and cheer people up through zany activities and cleverly written posts, because it doesn't seem they are appreciated.
@UndeadManWalking: Sorry, it's because in my language the words translate into the same thing and I got them mixed up in ages past.
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Not to mention that info printed in a magazine is always there, regardless of what happens. Your issue will always have that info. Web pages are not that permanent. They disappear and change all the time, often taking the information they contained with them, never to return.
05/30/09
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And they are video games, who cares if reviews and stories on them get lost forever? I can honestly say that I have NEVER read ANYTHING about video games that I would want to save for all of time.
05/29/09
man i remember the glory years when i had subscriptions to egm, next gen, gamefan, nintendo power, and egm 2. i also had a subscription to the dreamcast mag later on...
i can empathize with you guys that had a subscription to egm when it went under and didnt get your full subscription. that same thing happened with me with gamefan..
ahh the good ole days.
05/29/09
So does this mean Sushi-X will return as well? What about Shane er Quartermann??
I think I might buy one when the new one hits just to see what it's all about.
05/29/09
If EGM created an alliance like that, they'd do fantastic.
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Look at the number of periodicals folding - advertising isn't enough to sustain them. Without an alliance of some sort, it'll fail just like EGM volume 1.