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I just recently let my subscription lapse. I thought it was still pretty good, although I had lost interest in their style and topics to a degree. It's not a bad mag* at all. 

*This is an annoying phrase, but I have loved hating it ever since it appeared in every reader letter in the front of Car-Toons magazine, each of which was desperately trying to win their letter of the month contest. I think you could win $50. Woo!(1)

(1) I really love magazines and periodicals. How this is true after reading things like Car-Toons for years is beyond me.†

†This is some House of Leaves shit right here.

House of Leaves sounded interesting to me, but I also didn't feel like turning the book every which way to read it. 

Yeah, that was a little annoying. People who finish it normally think it was amazing. I am much more "meh" on the overall theme. Read back issues of Car-Toons instead.

Oh ho ho ho, man, that is classic!

Is Casey Hudson still the EIC? That's why I stopped reading. He comes from the Dave Halverson school (GameFan, Gamer's Republic, Play), and I just don't have time for that kind of jaded, snarky, ranting drivel.

I have no idea who is what and where and why, I just thought the magazine was just like I left it and that made me happy.

Maga..............zins? I haven't bought a gaming magazine in a while.

Yea, me too. I've heard Retro Gaming Mag is pretty good though. For some reason, I'm just not into it anymore. I see these web sites as my magazines now I guess. Pixlbit the e-zine. 

Eh, it's not the same to me.

yeah what is a magazine?  Is that something that goes on the iPad like comic books? 

No, it goes on the superior products, like Kindles. 

I'm sorry, I just am not a fan of Apple.

I remember when GameInformer switched me over to digital and I had to go to Gamestop all the time and get the print version. But then they changed the format to save pages, making the text smaller, and then I just stopped reading it. I could still download the digital version, I still have a subscription through Gamestop's rewards thingy, but it's not the same on the computer. It's the caveman principle again. I want a thing in my hands and turn the pages. Me no like electric magazine. Me want paper. Use to house break me later. Me no like chair that swishes water. Me like floor. "NO! BAD CAVEMAN! BAD!"

Me either, but I flat out haven't seen one in a while either. It made me nostalgic in a good way.

The last video game magazine I bought was Belgian one two months ago.

Odly enough, even if a bit expensive, we get EGM and other US mags in Colombia. I even have one from 2006 that talked about the next gen consoles..... as in 360, PS3 and Wii.

Good times.

EGM is still around?

How's the weight trainng going anyway?  I've been working out a lot lately myself. 

I actually just got back into it on Tuesday. I'm definitely lucky that after about a month off, I'm still mostly where I was before. Or maybe that means I need to push myself harder. 

It's been a while since I picked up the new EGMs.  The last EGM I did get was so damn thin and they were pushing their online stuff.  If I wanted to get online content, I'd go online.  There are plenty of sites I can get info from for free.  I like print and EGM wasn't bringing it.  I let them know it with my negative emails.  I miss the old EGMs that were full of content.  So what if some of the info is a couple weeks old.  I still go back to my EGMs from a decade ago to get info.  Maybe they've changed now.  I'm pretty happy just picking up a Games TM or Retro Gamer mag from time to time.  I'm thinking about subscribing to one of them soon.  Next time I'm at the bookstore, I'll flip through EGM to see what's up.  

Well, mostly I just gave a cursory glance, but the Summer 2014 issue I was reading actually seemed thicker to me than whatever I'd seen from them at the end of their initial run. 

Clearly, I'm in the minority in being impressed with EGM, but dammit the Internet won't break my optimism!

Most books stores around here have stopped caring gaming magazines. I might find a Retro gaming mag once in a while.

Most around here too, but Hasting's is a cool place.

Nostalgia just kicked me in the head. I have not read or had a subcrition to EGM in at least 10 years. No reason in particluar other than I just couldn't afford them anymore. Well, now that I think about it there were a couple of published responses to letters from readers that were unresonably snarky and petty. Kind pissed me off so I let my subscrition end. Glad to hear they may still be a decent mag. 

Yeah, I remember those letters when Milky was running it. Ugh. 

But the subscription I had was dirt cheap, just about $1/month, so affording it was never a problem for me.

The subscrition price was great, my problem was that I was unemployed and living on credits. Food, gas, and rent was the only justifiable expense. But yeah, fuckin Milky, what a jackass.lol

Honestly, I'm not sure if he was the problem, it just seemed that when it changed hands from Shoe, the letters got a lot more mean. Maybe it was a different new hire? I dunno.

I'm pretty sure it was him because I remember being a bit supprised by it. Up to that point I had actually liked Milk. Suppose he got on a little power trip there. 

I liked Milk a lot until he started going on his 1up rants. I'm pretty sure there are some I'd agree with now, but the way he went about condescending to any potential dissent was ... unbecoming? 

I bought a half a dozen of the new EGM when it was first starting up. And yeah, I thought it was pretty damn good. Very nicely polished and some excellent interviews within. Though it still felt really different to me. Of course, it's insanely hard to compete with nostalgia.

EGM was at its best when Shoe did his ranty editorials, or the reviews almost always done by three people. That time from about 2001-2005, when it wasn't uncommon for issues to be over 200 pages, will always be bring me fond memories.

I'm sure anyone who read EGM in the 80s and 90s will have an entirely different opinion however.

Oh I don't doubt it won't quite recapture the magic for me, but dammit I loved EGM then and I want to love it now and it looks like it'll be easier to do that than I thought. 

Hot damn, I don't think I've touched an issue of EGM since maybe Mortal Kombat II (it was probably either an issue that had the Fatalities Moves, or a ton of in game pictures). Heck I didn't know it was still in print, next time I'm at the mall I'm hitting a Barnes & Noble to check it out.

It's in print, but I don't think it's monthly any more. I should go back and buy it though, just for old time's sake. Not as old as MKII old time sake, more like Britney Spears was a major superstar in a schoolgirl uniform old time sake, but y'know. lol

Ahh when Britney wasn't a total trainwreck. Yup I remember those days. 

I bought the old EGM sometimes back in the day. I loved the Hsu and Chan comics! I haven't given an indepth look at the new one though. I haven't really paid attention to physcal magazines since the death of Nintendo Power, though we still do get Game Informer, for whatever it's worth.

I always preferred EGM to Game Informer and saw them as rival magazines, so I've never subbed to GI or really bought a newsstand copy. 

I haven't paid attention to print mags since the death of ... um ... EGM, but seeing a new copy the other day with roughly the same layout and humor I loved made me happy. 

We just have an GI sub for the GameStop discount, though we don't use that as much anymore anyway. We might let it lapse, I dunno. GI has good features—previews, dev interviews, stuff like that—but their reviews are generally terrible.

GI is really slick-looking and I always thought they were the more attractive mag, but I so preferred the personality in the EGM writing style. 

I'd totally get a GI sub for a Gamestop discount if I used it though. They're not a bad mag, there was just one issue of EGM where Show mentioned their ad revenue was down in part cause they weren't as willing to give good reviews in exchange for ads as other mags he refused to name. For some reason, GI instantly came to my mind as who he might be talking about and I've been aversive since. 

I followed EGM for a while after it came back, though for some reason it started to become harder and harder to get my hands on the newest issue. The weirdest moment came when I finally managed to snag one, but it was almost a year old already.

Huh. How'd that happen?

that's interesting to hear about EGM. I just recently had it in with a co worker who was reading a game informer. I think it's time to look back on this EGM of new and atleast have a physical gaming magazine in my hands.