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EGM subscriptions are up.
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Since I still haven't gotten mine in the mail, I decided to pick it up today at Barnes & Noble. I don't have the time to give it a full write-up, but I will say that everyone who's on the fence about it should definitely go pick one up. It's beautifully produced, packed with tons of great content, and the first issue of EGMi adds even more professional content to the experience.
Welcome back, EGM. Getting shutdown was the best thing to ever happen to you, because now you're back better than ever.
It might even edge out the new Gamepro. Either way, EGM and GamePro are the new kings of gaming mags in the U.S. How retro.
Welcome back, EGM. Getting shutdown was the best thing to ever happen to you, because now you're back better than ever.
It might even edge out the new Gamepro. Either way, EGM and GamePro are the new kings of gaming mags in the U.S. How retro.
I found it on the stands at Barnes and Noble in Orlando today. I wanted the blue Ryu cover, but unfortunately the only one they had left had a big nasty "X" scratched across it, presumably from the box cutter. They had a pretty big stack of Ken on hand, though, which made me feel very silly when I asked a worker if they had any more copies of the blue cover.
This thing... is amazing. Maybe it's just a combination of sheer joy and nostalgia-vision clouding my mind, but I'm thoroughly blown away by the new issue of EGM. At less than 100 pages, it's certainly nowhere near the size of the 300 page tomes I used to flip through with my dad when I was a kid, but somehow the content feels more dense than it has in years. The book only has a few ads, tons of great little blurbs and additional information alongside the major articles, and some great design and use of in-game assets and fan artwork to keep things interesting. I've found myself starting at the first page and slowly working my way through the magazine, one page at a time, instead of just flipping through the pages like I normally would... the content is that attractive.
EGMi, has also managed to impress me, giving me something to read during my downtime at work. I will say that I'm crossing a lot of typos and other little burps in EGMi, plus minor bugs that crop up, such as not being able to enter dates for age specific content when in full screen mode. So far it seems like it'll be providing a healthy amount of original and supplemental material to the print magazine, rather than just the same information pushed into a digital format. Reading this makes me crave for an iPad, just so I can be onboard for the eventual launch of EGMiPad.
Congratulations, guys, you've done us all proud.
This thing... is amazing. Maybe it's just a combination of sheer joy and nostalgia-vision clouding my mind, but I'm thoroughly blown away by the new issue of EGM. At less than 100 pages, it's certainly nowhere near the size of the 300 page tomes I used to flip through with my dad when I was a kid, but somehow the content feels more dense than it has in years. The book only has a few ads, tons of great little blurbs and additional information alongside the major articles, and some great design and use of in-game assets and fan artwork to keep things interesting. I've found myself starting at the first page and slowly working my way through the magazine, one page at a time, instead of just flipping through the pages like I normally would... the content is that attractive.
EGMi, has also managed to impress me, giving me something to read during my downtime at work. I will say that I'm crossing a lot of typos and other little burps in EGMi, plus minor bugs that crop up, such as not being able to enter dates for age specific content when in full screen mode. So far it seems like it'll be providing a healthy amount of original and supplemental material to the print magazine, rather than just the same information pushed into a digital format. Reading this makes me crave for an iPad, just so I can be onboard for the eventual launch of EGMiPad.
Congratulations, guys, you've done us all proud.
Suburban_Nooblet
Banned
I was definitely expecting to hate the EGMi digital issue. They proved me wrong, it's done so well. The interactive content is done just right to where it doesn't feel overwhelming or annoying and it was awesome to download the free 5 tracks from the FFXIII OST and listen to them while I read the article. I couldn't be happier with my decision to subscribe.
ScOULaris said:Since I still haven't gotten mine in the mail, I decided to pick it up today at Barnes & Noble. I don't have the time to give it a full write-up, but I will say that everyone who's on the fence about it should definitely go pick one up. It's beautifully produced, packed with tons of great content, and the first issue of EGMi adds even more professional content to the experience.
Welcome back, EGM. Getting shutdown was the best thing to ever happen to you, because now you're back better than ever.
It might even edge out the new Gamepro. Either way, EGM and GamePro are the new kings of gaming mags in the U.S. How retro.
Yeah, the design is absolutely beautiful. Great Stuff
Mr. Wonderful
Member
I think I may have grown out of EGM in the last two years.
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
Got mine for a flight tomorrow. wooo
SuperSonic1305
Member
Tsk Tsk EGM. There are some glaring errors in your issue of EGMi. Specifically in the cover story section. First you say FF5 is regarded among some fans as the best in the series. Come on nobody thinks that. You must be thinking of FF6. Next you say The War of the Lions is a sequel to the original FFT which is so wrong. It's just a port with extras. Then in the Kingdom Hearts section you say Goofy can fight Sephiroth which is wrong since it's a 1 on 1 battle. Also you list Crisis Core as a DS game. FIX THIS SHIT EGM or i'll cancel my sub.
Not really
Str0ngStyle
Member
Bought my copy at a Target in Charleston, SC. Very impressed with it so far. You guys did a good job with the relaunch. It reminds me a lot of Play with the layout and paper quality. I am gonna buy another issue and see if I want to keep a subscription. But so far, it looks like a keeper
On EGMi, the media player needs a status bar and an option for fullscreen (unless I'm just not seeing it). With my slow DSL, I have to pause and comeback after 1/2 hour and hope that the video loaded enough so that it doesn't stutter. Besides that, I love the setup of the online magazine and am really liking the new magazine.
Dreamwriter
Member
I would hope they would get real programmers to make a native iPad/iPhone app. It's not like iPhone programmers are hard to find, and the native iPad Popular Science magazine is very cool.Mr. Wonderful said:
I do hope they make an iPad version of the print magazine soon, I don't want to buy printed material anymore if I can help it.
BradVanDam
Member
I got KEN
HE IS MY FAVORITE ONLINE IN SOOOPER STREET FIGHTER IV
HE IS MY FAVORITE ONLINE IN SOOOPER STREET FIGHTER IV
john tv said:
That is going to be so nice to have them all in one reliable place. I have been downloading scans whenever I needed an old-school EGM fix, but there just aren't enough being actively scanned.
I can't wait to read issue #54 (January 1994) again. It had the exclusive feature on Mortal Kombat II before it came out, and I remember being so friggin' pumped reading it. Then, about three weeks later, the first MK2 cabinet popped up at my local mall arcade. Being a kid was awesome.
The Internet is obviously one of the best technological innovations of the last century, but it definitely brought with it some side effects. Since we are saturated with instant information now, information has become a devalued commodity. When I was a kid, reading magazines was the only way to get breaking gaming news. And that meant that a big announcement for an upcoming game was presented with some nice cover art and a fully typeset, well-written article with screenshots to go with it.
Compare that to hearing about a game in development four years before it ever comes out via a generic press release online. Then we are bombarded by enough gameplay videos and trailers to essentially show us the entire game before its release.
I'm not saying that the Internet is bad in any way. I'm just saying that there were some benefits to a time when information wasn't in excess.
VariantX04
Loser slave of the system :(
Best news ever. Hopefully EGMi as well.john tv said:
Chip N Chance
Member
You sure they just don't mean of the new line of EGM?
I saw the blue one in stores. Seems pretty high quality in paper, the cover.
I saw the blue one in stores. Seems pretty high quality in paper, the cover.
antiquegamer
Member
ScOULaris said:
Yeah, now we get tweet... 140 or less or worst yet, tweet of an announcement that there was going to be an announcement.
Pick it up at B&N the other day and have to admit I was never big fan of EGM but I was very impress with the mag quality. It's got really good lay out, easy to read. My only complain is the size of the mag but I guess that's the norm these days where all the advertising dollars go to web instead.
They do need to get their site running on iPad and digital copy for subscriber would be awesome so I can keep print one store away.
SuperPac
Member
john tv said:
Daaaaaaamn, I'd pay good money for that.
Especially if it included the old-school ads (or if you at least had the option to view them). I always wondered why Ziff really never went back and mined the EGM back-catalog for anything. There's a lot of great stuff in there.
The Bookerman
Member
I haven't. I'm in montreal.Lothars said:
Lothars said:
Yeah, I saw it in a bunch of places in Ottawa on Friday. Their distribution is better than I expected. What's interesting is that stores had either the ken cover or the ryu - none of them had both.
It sucks that they're going to have every issue available after I went to great lengths to get a near complete set of 80s and 90s EGM.
I'm kidding, of course, this is amazing! A really nice touch for subscribers and great to see a group like this mining their back catalogue. I hope that EGM2 and SNES Buyer's Guide show up as well!
The Lamonster
Member
STILL haven't recieved my mag in the mail.
The Lamonster
Member
Missouri.ScOULaris said:
john tv said:
Not that I'm calling him a liar, but I'll be really, really surprised if they actually have the full backlog of EGM (and EGM2) digitally archived. I mean, that's at least, what, 20 years of monthly magazine content to have stored somewhere? There are so many things that can happen during all of that time to archives, and at least at GameFan, back in the pre-digital distribution days there seemed to be very little concern for keeping solid archives of all of the issues. The mentality was that, once an issue was done, what was important was getting the next issue done, not being concerned about keeping around the previous issues. (Hey, even at Play, serious cataloging of digital files for back issues didn't seem to be going on until I started doing it. Digital copies of Play pre-2007 simply don't exist from what I know.)
I'd love to be wrong, though; the more older magazines that are preserved digitally, the better so far as I'm concerned. Unless, of course, the plan for getting back issues up is to tear apart print versions and scan them in page by page. *heh*