This month I received in the mail a copy of PC Gamer and a letter from Playstation: The Official Magazine. PTOM has been canceled and my subscription diverted to PC Gamer who will fill out the rest of my months.
I’ve been a subscriber of PTOM since it started as PSM back in 1997. It was the best of the console game magazines out there. I’ve read and own Nintendo Power, Game Informer, GamePro, and EGM, but PSM/PTOM consistently kept me with its reviews, articles, and features. It was the most adult magazine out there, and you can see it in the since-discontinued art section. GamePro had 8 year old kids sending in drawings with crayons, PSM had web artists who drew anime-quality art using sophisticated programs.
I will miss PSM. Even when they went from a 100% independent magazine to working for Sony, their coverage didn’t slip. Now I do love my PC games, but I don’t usually run out to buy the newest ones unlike my console games. It just won’t be the same.
This makes 3 magazines that’s quit on my in the last few years! A couple of years ago they discontinued Anime Insider, and just this past month the last print copy of Newsweek ended its run! I’m like a magazine killer. Quick, somebody gift me a subscription of a magazine you want to kill!
I loved my PC gamer magazine too, but I’m letting the subscription run out. The immediacy and quality of internet gaming websites is more than enough to keep me happy and entertained. And thanks to tablets I can still read in depth articles about my favorite games while on crapper.
I went through the same thing with Computer Gaming World (which became Games for Windows the Magazine and then died). They also shifted my subscription to PC Gamer which was not a terrible magazine but I let it lapse more because I was trying to reduce clutter in my home then anything else.
I had been reading CGW since 1994 or there abouts. I still remember when they released issues around the holidays that were over 200 pages long. It was a good magazine with thoughtful reviews and articles about the industry.
Really? Wow. I thought it was droll 15 years ago, so that’s an awfully long time to run with something that was mildly amusing once or twice back when you could still look forward to new episodes of Seinfeld on TV.
Having said that, I’m glad PCG is still going - although I’m also surprised there’s many computer gaming mags left at all, what with there being an internet and everything nowadays.
