Never. I used to buy several different magazines years ago but now I just find review on the internet. Gaming magazines seem less interested these days in objectively reviewing the (mostly) junk that is unleashed on the public. Instead their niche seems to be in promoting it to sell ad space. :nope: The 'net is less tainted and the taint that is there is easier to filter out.

I'd be lucky to by 1 game mag a year now although I do buy PC hardware magazines now and then.

I used to subscribe to PC Powerplay when I was back in Australia. Great mag. I'm biased though because when I renewed my subscription to it one year I won the comp that they have and my prize was a nice big Philips 109P Brilliance 19" flat screen monitor. At the time that was AUD $1000 retail so I was pretty chuffed with that and it's still going strong almost 5 years later. I'n any case a great mag.

Hell am i the only one that still buys these mags :oops: Is it becoming a thing of the past. :hmm: I never miss an issue haven't for yrs now. Then again im pretty addicted to gaming mags that if subsim brought out one i would probably buy it :-j Demos are also getting larger now, for instance LOTR Battle for middle earth 2 demo was over 1gig in size, that would take me like a week on a 12kb dl speed. Just wait for the magazine to come out instead. Also cool ultitlies, prizes, competitions (won 2 games through competition) and tech info, also every month a subscribe user is in the chance to win a gaming rig and theres 2 dvds of stuff that come with each issue. Not bad for $12 bucks. :rock:

I'm the guy you see standing at the supermarket magazine rack reading the magazine while the wife is looking at clothes and other women's stuff.

So no....

I used to buy loads of them back in the day when "gaming" was new. Then came the BBS, and later the internet finally killed it.

Every now and then I read one or the other, but only to make sure they continue to be unnecessary.

google for a game, see some screenshots, some reviews, etc. nothing fancy. Don't need a magazine for that. ;)

:lol: :lol:

I do exactly the same thing when at Tesco or Asda.

Subscription of GameStar (German Game Mag). Two DVDs on each for 5€ a month with at least one full game (sometimes even interesting stuff like Morrowind) mostly two of them.

Unfortunatly those game websites like GameSpy just wont hack it for me, total overload of Ads and I actually prefer good ole fashioned print on paper on some things - lot easier to carry around with you for reading while being bored to death in college classes.

Well ta for that...I've tried many times to Google some and I always come up with websites which sell them. :up:

Gaming mags are for the console crowd now...the simpletons who don't own computers, that is.

Does anyone here hate consoles like I do? :damn:

I liked the original Nintendo and Atari 2600 as a kid :D

These days I don't care for them and attribute the generally boring and formulaic (example: RTS clones) games that dominate the shelves to the "need" to port everything to a console. :nope:

I don't buy any...I mainly go from word of message from various online forums;

What could a Mag tell me, that others have actually played?

It's been my (40yrs) experience that any review in a magazine- regardless of what the topic is- is that the reviewer is always looking for the Plus side of ANY product, and rarley gives the down side.


That said, most Mags are just Advertisement vehicles anyway.

I usually fall victim to the ones that show a hot bodied girl straddeling a computer case in a bikini :hmm: , but it's funny cause I never really need the rest of the magazine. :P

Patboot wrote:
You need to read PCPowerplay they tell it like it is, if the games bad the will rubbish it and warn you not to buy it, they even warn the reader if the game contains starforce.

The only magazine I buy from time to time is (AFTER THE BATTLE) apart from that one, no I don’t buy any from the shops just a waste of money or so full of adverts hardly anything worth reading in them.

If anyone is interested in AFTER THE BATTLE click on the link. :up:

http://www.afterthebattle.com/ab-con1.html

I buy many!

"GameStar" i read all the time!

But it's only in germany!

I'm a gamer.I have a too slow Internet to DL the demos, so i get 'em on the Game Magazines DVD's.

I love 'em. :up:

I buy some miniatures magazines. Computer gaming mags, much more rarely.

Subscribe to Maximum PC---not really a gaming magazine, but some good information on games in it.

I still have my NES from when I was a kid. Occasionally, I fire it up for a game of Duck Hunt.

Rarely. Usually the Finnish mag, Pelit.

I hate gaming sites. They're usually stuffed so full of ads, animations and other crap it takes hours to even locate a search-bar not to mention how slowly they load.. :down: