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In Hungary we have these :
- GameStar
- PC Guru
- 576 KByte
What gaming magazines do you have in your country ?
Post edited March 09, 2010 by lackoo1111
Crap ones.
I fear the age of decent gaming magazines has moved us by. It's funny considering gaming is bigger than ever yet the magazines suffer from too many things to mention.
I used to subscribe to PC Gamer UK - since issue 1 - because it took gaming seriously and was a magazine for the more serious gamer yet it was rather silly most of the time. Despite that, it became the best selling PC games magazine of Europe but with the coming of the Internet, many readers stopped buying the mag and chose to stick with the online sites like IGN and Gamespot. But even before that, I could see many of the most talented writers moving on with other things.
Magazines like Your Sinclair and Amiga Power were genius to read yet magazines these days are far too professional and "cold" for my liking. The fun is gone and it's very obvious. I kinda miss the days when PC gaming was still on the rise - there's too much money involved now.
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Red_Avatar: I fear the age of decent gaming magazines has moved us by. It's funny considering gaming is bigger than ever yet the magazines suffer from too many things to mention.

I think it applies to magazines in general and the way we consume written media nowadays. Because of the internet content has become more atomic and independent and as such I rarely find it worth it to buy a whole magazine just for two articles that interest me, especially when those articles can be found mirrored online (sometimes even on the magazines website).
This along with the proliferation of freelancing in journalism means that I am no longer tied to a publication in order to read everything an author publishes because he most often than not collaborates with more than just one magazine.
Also, I find that most features are lacking, and by features I mean in depth articles, well written and accompanied by an amazing layout, font, colour. If I wanted to read lines of text on a simple background I wouldn't of paid for your publication, especially if the article has no substance.
With all this in mind it's no wonder that the only magazines I read frequently (as in as close to month-by-month as possible) are Wired (UK and US via import) and The Economist.
The only gaming magazine I read (and infrequently at that) is the occasional issue of Retro Gamer.
It's only the occasional one, because it costs about the same as a new novel, which is generally better value for my money.
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Red_Avatar: Magazines like Your Sinclair and Amiga Power were genius to read yet magazines these days are far too professional and "cold" for my liking. The fun is gone and it's very obvious. I kinda miss the days when PC gaming was still on the rise - there's too much money involved now.

So true.
There are far too many magazines to list but they range from good (GamesTM) to bad (PC Zone) and downright ugly (EDGE).
Gamerzines are nice. Free, online gaming magazines, and always have some kind of competitions/prizes.
www.gamerzines.com
Post edited March 08, 2010 by KavazovAngel
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Red_Avatar: Crap ones.
I fear the age of decent gaming magazines has moved us by. It's funny considering gaming is bigger than ever yet the magazines suffer from too many things to mention.
I used to subscribe to PC Gamer UK - since issue 1 - because it took gaming seriously and was a magazine for the more serious gamer yet it was rather silly most of the time. Despite that, it became the best selling PC games magazine of Europe but with the coming of the Internet, many readers stopped buying the mag and chose to stick with the online sites like IGN and Gamespot. But even before that, I could see many of the most talented writers moving on with other things.
Magazines like Your Sinclair and Amiga Power were genius to read yet magazines these days are far too professional and "cold" for my liking. The fun is gone and it's very obvious. I kinda miss the days when PC gaming was still on the rise - there's too much money involved now.

Aye that's the sad truth :(
pcgamer here, I like it
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KavazovAngel: Gamerzines are nice. Free, online gaming magazines, and always have some kind of competitions/prizes.

I read thirteen1 mag, it's pretty cool
In Serbia, we have:
-Svet Kompjutera
-Gameplay
-ScreenFun
Apart from the toiler paper quality rejects we have CD Action which is pretty crappy, the only thing that keeps it alive are the adds and bonus DVDs with games.
Back in the good days we had Bajtek [which was primarily a tech-zine] which had a few pages on games. Those few pages later developed into Top Secret, which was one of the funniest zines i've read, despite being riddled by misprints and suffering from poor management, constant loses and stuff. TS was one of those zines that never treated themselves too seriously, and their reviews were usually full of jokes.
In the early 90s came Secret Service, which was pretty cool for a few years, and then dropped drastically on quality,
And there was Gambler, which focused more on a "gaming community" than games themselves i.e. few pages of articles not game oriented.
Those two were in my opinion most interesting, since they began mostly reviewing 8bit titles, with Secret Service spanning from C64 reviews [yeah, in 1993] to the age of PlayStation, at which point i've lost my interest.
Apart from those, when it comes to PC games, there was also RESET, which was a short lived zine, If i remember correctly it was created by people from Secret Service and Gambler after those two shut down [or were near their last edition]. It featured a CD version, which had some bloody GOOD games, like Gabriel Knight, they even supplied boxes if i remember correctly..
Good old times [no, really] ;)
Nintendo Power back in the day...
Strictly for gaming I can think of 3 magazines here in Greece.
One...I don't remember the title, but it is about consoles.
For PC is PC Master. Going strong for 15 or 20 years now. It has great content, but I rarely buy it because I forget it exists. They have a free game on each issue though...Few months ago it was the last time I bought it had it had all the Baldur's Gate games.
There is another one, which is basically a leaflet that comes with two older (few years) games, for 10 or 15 euros or something. Some times great games, others, not so much.
In the past there were several magazines but they went the way of the dodo.
In english, my all time favourite was Strategy Plus, renamed Computer Games Strategy Plus, renamed Computer Games, renamed to nothing.
The only magazine I subscribed to and it was a joy to read over and over again. It went dead few years ago with the proliferation of web sites and the financial problems of its parent company (global.com IIRC)
I wish I still had all those issues over the years, but life and having to move to new places all the time meant I had to...let them go. :(
Post edited March 08, 2010 by trusteft
If there is a system in use, we have a magazine for it. One company publishes a PS3, 360 and Wii magazine. I wonder if they play the fanboys against each other...
We also have the broader magazines, like GamePro and GameInformer.
Post edited March 08, 2010 by TheCheese33
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KavazovAngel: Gamerzines are nice. Free, online gaming magazines, and always have some kind of competitions/prizes.
www.gamerzines.com

Thanks for the link - great find.
There were hundreds in the UK last time i was there, though i dunno if they're all still going.
I used to read PC Format (i think) when i was young, and my favorite would be EDGE. A gaming magazine that focused on more than just reviews and previews.
In japan PC games are all dodgy.. so there don't seem to be many pc gaming magazines..