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AphXE
12-08-2003, 06:09 AM
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=pub&aid=2447

If you were to ask any gamer as to what job they would consider as the “Most Tops-As In The World, Chief”, then they would probably say “Videogame Journalist”. As for us, we’d have to say “Face Puncher Of Justin Timberlake” but that’s another matter altogether. We’re seeing a therapist about that.

Gamesindustry.biz has an interesting opinion on the direction of the specialist gaming magazine. It theorises that the increase in coverage of games in more mainstream publications, as well as the increasing quality of Internet fan-sites could have a major negative impacts on the videogame mag industry.

Whilst this could be seen as a compliment to those people who slave for hours over their keyboards to maintain their little corners of the net, it does concern us that this could be detrimental to those who wish to write about games, but actually make MONEY doing so. If there are no magazines to write for, whatever will we do??

We can’t keep selling our first-borns for income for much longer. We’re sure there are laws.

(News like this will be up on XE when it launches… when…)

Kenshin
12-08-2003, 02:47 PM
Journalist? O.o I thought it would be in the game design section, wierd.

TuckerXE
12-09-2003, 12:59 AM
Hey, I love the site and all, but I'll keep buying mags... as long as they have a good demo disk in that month's issue. That's pretty much the only reason I get them. I read the whole issue when I buy it, but the disk is the reason I buy it, not the articles. I have a friend whose life partner was a tech reviewer for a newspaper in San Francisco, but he lost his job a year or two ago. He said that lots of people with that job were losing their jobs then. Maybe related, maybe not.

Captain Obvious
12-09-2003, 01:16 AM
Well i know that when i buy a mag. It WILL come with a disk or i wont get it! but i have gotten some from ign and their mag that they gave out, electronic gameing monthly, covers all types of platforms and its just not as good as OXM or PC Gaming, i just dont like it. maybe its the disk or maybe its just the fact that they just are borring! who knows?
All i know is i have mags and i have places on the web that i look for, for info on games. The web has downloadable content and the mag has a disk. If you look at them they are close together, but the web has more info, much more, but still i think that if i could get the content from the web onto my xbox, i would give up on mags all together. BTW i know about XBOX Live, but its not like they give you a demo over the web if you know what i mean?

Marbire
12-09-2003, 08:10 AM
I get Maxim Magazine and Stuff Magazine in my mail for free.........

...... what!?


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