Three months ago we got the sad news that Games for Windows magazine would be shutting down. The Ziff Davis magazine changed its title back in 2006; it was originally known as Computer Gaming World and ran on that name for 25 years. Now the new issue of Ziff Davis' remaining gaming print magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, has announced that for the first time in its own long running career it will begin to run PC gaming news and previews inside its pages.The issue states that PC news won't be a huge part of EGM but the August 2008 dated issue does have a look at a number of upcoming PC RTS games (Starcraft 2, Battleforge, and Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3). Thus EGM becomes a true multi-platform magazine like Game Informer and GamePro. Will it's PC games coverage be adaquate in the future or will Future Publishing's PC Gamer, the only remaining US PC centric PC game print mag, still rule the roost?
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I haven't bought a gaming magazine since the mid 90s. With the internet as a viable alternative, monthly periodicals become a waste of time, money and natural resources. I really appreciated gaming mags back when they were the one and only way to get news and reviews, but their time has come and gone.
As an aside, I have enjoyed working my way through the first 100 issues Computer Gaming World that they released as PDFs when the magazine was getting relaunched with its new title.Posted at 12:27PM on Jul 5th 2008 by paralipsis