The Magazine Round-Up
I do have to give props to Simon Carless and the crew over at CMP media, which produces GameSetWatch, Gamasutra and Game Developer’s Magazine. They truly walk the line between utter pretentiousness and speaking to us non-New Yorker magazine reading common folk. Whenever I’m looking for something a little highbrow on a Sunday morning, instead of the reading the latest edition of Jayson Blair’s New York Times, I turn to something from CMP.
They currently have on GameSetWatch a roundup of all the magazines and their content this month. The first one featured is EGM, which GayGamer.net is featured in, and the writer even says, “The top 10 queerest characters in games. I’m glad Raphael Sorel made it on there, but Zangief? Come on! Since when is being 100% man such a sin?”
Where I’m currently getting stuck on the whole magazine thing, is for the most part I understand the markets these things are going for. Electronic Gaming Monthly, Gamepro and Game Informer (which has the mighty leverage of GameStop and EB Games to get them whatever they want) is designed for a general audience. The magazine’s with the name of console in them are for the fanboys. But with this internet thing we’ve got now, are these cheats and tips style magazines designed for the stupid? There are plenty of one stop shops on the net now for all that info.
Alexander
Posted to Video Games on 10 September 2006
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