People still read EGM?

such a shitty cover to end on too

LOLJAGGIES

>>25307445
>free magazine
>taking a shit

Makes sense to me.

and nothing of value was lost. Fuck those wannabe hipster faggots.

Well, you could always read Game Informer.

They're too much like "Kotaku: The Magazine" to me though.

egm mag is over?

>>25307554
http://kotaku.com/5124928/report-1up-sold-to-hearst-corporation-egm-to-close

Its okay guys, we still have GamePro...

>>25307554

Yep, and 30 of the 55 people of the 1up staff is faired, the podcast and the 1upShow are simply DEATH, orrible day and is only the first bad news of this year. 2009 is already a terrible year...

It's dead? ;_;

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
its all real
how many gaming mags are left now?
game informer?
gamepro?
tips and tricks?
nintendo power?

Oh man, I've seen so many game magazines go down.

It's depressing knowing that everything I grew up with is slowly fading away.

There was supposed to be a big SFIV show tonight....

I knew EGphleM's days were numbered when they gave Wii Music to some soccer mom to review who in turn gave it an A-

I don't get it, they buy it out then shut everything down?

How is that profitable?

>>25307778
Tips and Tricks is dead.

You got Play, with the rest of those.

CREDIT CRUNCH

How is EGM a "free" mag?

>>25307862
oh damn
well
i think when hsu and chan comics left, that marked the end

>>25307921
Mommy and Daddy buy it for him.

>>25307921
some website gave out free yearly subscriptions

>>25307921
Its not, but I have used free subscription offers found online for about 3-4 years now to get the mag.

>>25307853
Buy them out

Sell off their assets, make a profit.

Make their employees redundant, you don't have to pay as many salaries.

People who want to buy something similar to your product (gaming magazines) now have fewer choices and are more likely to buy yours.

More customers buy your magazine. You make profit.

I'm not business minded.

>>25307445
This was the only game mag I read.

Wow, EGM is fucking gone?

I guess it's no loss, but it used to be a pretty decent mag back in the day. Way back it was probably the best one on the market.

>>25307931

Hsu and Chan left? You're shitting me.

GAMEINFORMER WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST MAGAZINE

/capslock

>>25307862
>Tips and Tricks is dead.

I liked the old logo better.

>>25308152

Diehard Gamefan was the best.

Rest in peace old friend ;_;

Edge is still alive, but I don't know if you amerifags get it over there...


RIP

>GamePlayers was the best.

fixed

>>25308218
Postmaster lives in our hearts

>>25308244
shitsux
The only good thing about Edge these days is they occasionally have a well-informed column about shoot 'em ups.

>>25308101
cant remember why it was kicked, but he does it online now
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8976055

Nintendo Power is the only good gaming magazine. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

For my shitter reading, I read PC Gamer Malaysia since it's cheap as fuck (3USD in your monies).
Sure, the editing is horrible, the content is month-old crap taken from PCG UK, but eh, toilet reading.

edge is like 70 bucks a year for amerifags.There's pretty much no good console magazines left,just the official BS.

At least I still have PC Gamer.

>What free magazine am I going to read while taking a shit now?

I read Tokyo Pop doesn't talk about video games though.

>>25308158
That one died a while ago buddy, get with the times.

>>25307314
Oh... my childhood....

They were defiantly the funniest video game magazine out there, and that isn't really saying much.

>>25307471

I bought the issue in OP's post and the first thing I noticed was the shitty cover.

Was EGM the longest running? Or was that Nintendo Power? I can't remember anymore.

;_;

Fuck now I have zero toliet reading.

I used to be on EGM for a long time, but I got bored and stared getting Rolling Stone. Now they wont fuck off with Barrack Obama (one issue they talked about how much McCain sucked more then they talked about, y'know, music), so just recently I went back to EGM...

*sigh*.... what am I supposed to do now, NOT spend 10 minutes on the toilet reading because I lost track of time?

>>25308335
My beef with them is that they always downplay EVERY game's bad points and give out scores that don't match their reviews. They can talk all about the negatives for a game and give it a 6.5, all talk with no negatives and give it an 8.5.

>>25308327

Thanks. Favorite part of the mag for me with Seanbaby.

EGM is complete shit. Biased through the ass. Pick up Gameinformer.

>Reading a money-making magazine for game reviews
Oh anon you card.

I have pretty much all of the EGM magazines of the past ten years, they're right there in a bin right next to my bed.


;_;

>>25308435
But I don't want to!

>>25308290

Remember the good old days?

>>25308825
fucking Seanbaby. I loved his articles.

That, Hsu and Chan, and Sean's site itself were my source of laughter for a bit of my life. Shit was sad but I mdae it. :(

but who will shill for micro$oft now?

HORRIBLE LICENSE GAME ON THE COVER? HAHAHHAHA
I WOULD TAKE A SHIT ON THAT FUCKING WORTHLESS MAGAZINE PIECE OF FUCK

Oh wow... I did not see this coming at all. Damn, EGM was pretty much the only gaming mag that I ever bought/looked into.

I'm going to miss the podcasts a lot more than the magazine.

>>25309359

qft


Retronauts :(

>>25309203

New trolls are the worst

Seanbaby was hilarious when you were like 14-15 years old.

But the magazine was a pile of shit.

>>25309156
Love it

>>25309359
Same here. Most of the rad dudes got let go...yet they leave that talentless piece of shit David Ellis.

I shed more tears for GMR than I ever would for EGM. EGM ended up becoming Maxim for Gamers

Shit, and I had a subscription to this.

>God dammit, why does it have to end
>free magazine

>>25309522

I particularly like the part where they trash the japs.

Good shit right there.

>>25308864
0/10

Bonus disks with XBM, fuck year exclusive TF2 gamerpics

>>25308307

Edge suck because all you care about are shootemups.

Ive stopped paying for GamePro for 3 years now and the fuckers STILL send me mags. Shit sux.

I love NP though... still, I think its for collector's love though.

The Xbox mag is the only one that knows what its doing these days. GOTY was Fallout 3 and L4D.
Last year Rock Band. they're the only good mag left... they even dissed their own systems new interface.

CGW/GFW was the best. When it went under my subscription got transferred to these monkeys. Now I'm fucking out of printed gamin' goodness.

I'm going to miss 1up yours and the 1up show more than EGM. Even though I grew up with EGM, it's pretty awful now, only slightly better than GamePro.