Games Magazines in general

Games Magazines in general: Essential For Gamers (573 words)
by Recon - written on 24.02.08 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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There are loads of game magazines out there for purchase, but what one should you buy, and which are the best? Well, for each console and even company, there are many different magazines. Right now, the main consoles are as follows: Xbox 360 Playstation 3 Nintendo Wii Nintendo DS Sony PSP These are the latest handheld and games consoles. There are different magazines out there for each one. For the Xbox 360, I would recommend the official Xbox 360 magazine. Normally at around £5.49, it is quite expensive. However, it is official with the most reliable information and loads of cool content. The magazine normally comes with a disc ...

Monkey Butts (338 words)
by jd99 - written on 26.09.01 (Very useful, 868 readings)
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Gaming magazines are as varied as a pack of monkeys, some have normal butts, others pink, purple, blue and so on. Ok, perhaps not such a good example. Anyway, monkey butts aside, the range of gaming magazines available is amazing. There are loads. So what sort do you choose when starting out or changing magazines. Well, in my mind there are a few broad genres of gaming magazines. There are the sexually frustrated mags, the puss-squeezing immature boys mags and the mainly sensible and respectful mags. Let me explain further. The sexually frustrated mags are the ones that link everything with some chick wearing a bikini or a coarse joke. ...

Games Magazines in general: Games Magazines of old (267 words)
by pbyron - written on 11.05.01 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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Back when I were a lad, computer magazines were funny and took themselves a lot less serious than they do today. Everyone who worked in the industry looked forward to the future with bright expectations and believed anything was possible. Back in the early eighties it was a world so much different to the one we see today. That may sound ridiculous, but magazines like C&VG and Your Sinclair, among others, were eager to stress that games were the biggest thing on the planet and the fact that amazing graphics involved 2 to 16 colours and some computer games incurred long loading times didn't matter one jot. Covers often featured fully hand drawn ...