Just to tell you, my current job is purely online related, because I know that online is the future. I spent 4 years in the publishing industry, and felt that it was already time for a change.

Nevertheless, what I apply to my current work, I learned from magazines, and this is why I feel so strongly about most of the stuff you said in the other blog.

I think there is still a future for magazines, specially if the content you are dealing with is not time bound. Though I agree that podcasts are cool.

However, I would still rather read a magazine in the bathroom rather than have a laptop or ipod with me.

Personally these days my game information comes from no form of visual media but aural media, namely podcasts. The 1up netwrok has an impressive stable of podcasts that cover the gamut of sports gamers, console gamers, PC gamers, and just everyday gaming. The podcasts let me work while I’m absorbing content, which means maximum efficiency. Plus I feel like I get to know the editors and writers of the magazines better, since they let loose a bit on the podcasts, spitting out stuff that they might normally leave out in a magazine.

right now there are 3 videogame magazines in the market. what do you think about them?

1. Game!
2. Playground
2. GameEX? (not sure)

Anyway, I loved the mag, even though it had faults – don’t get me wrong, you guys did a great job, just as PBM said. Nothing IS perfect, after all. It became a hobby of mine to collect the mag since I first bought an issue(which started April 2005), and used it as one of my references in buying games.

Still, we have to accept the facts. Maybe the mag can’t be revived, but look at what you guys have contributed to the industry here. The forum has also done a lot, though currently I can say that it is “hibernating,” waiting for someone to revive it. The forum has done a lot of influence on me, it has even made my mind shift to patronizing original games.

Well after all that chat, I can say this assuringly – thanks >_

I think a gaming mag can still exist here. Problems are, just what PBman said, mmog people and the Internet. I myself only get news of new games to TV and the internet but sometimes I like something that I can read on without a tube. One local game mag I bought after GM ends didn’t continue after 2 issues (I don’t know if they would bring it back, and seriously, they were gone after their event).

In the US. a lot of magazines settled to closing down and just maintain a website with premium content. You publish on paper monthly, these people publish electronically on a daily basis. They also have a weapon called VIDEOS that none of the magazines can possibly have.

But still, you cant really read a website inside the bathroom can you? At that’s what gamesmaster was all about for me. Its nice for bathroom breaks.

No just kidding. The community it raised (tough some were noobs that have been flamed to account deletion) was pretty cool too. I still keep in touch with several people from the GM (now GB) forums.