What magazines do you read?

[Mr. Bananagrabber]

As in the return of.
NGC and Metal Hammer. With Cube occasionally.
You?

[Bowser57]

Edge is the only magazine I read every issue.

I have the odd look at Metal Hammer and Kerrang! if and when my brother gets them, oh and Auto Express when my dad gets it.

I'll sometimes flick through that Nuts and Zoo rubbish at work as a guy there buys them.

[Haden]

NGC, PC Gamer, Edge, History Today, The Economist, Time magazine, The Spectator, Prospect.

Of course I don't get every issue of these mags, apart from EDGE and NGC but theses are the magazines that take my fancy.

[Blackfox]

I read the occasional Loaded or Nuts/Zoo, but very ocassionally. I also find it funny to read one of those bitchey magazine thats my mum/sister buys - hilarity.

Other than that - I read books.

[Bren]

Nuts/Zoo and occasionally FHM

[Monopolyman]

NOM

*runs away*

[The3rdChildren]

The Internet. Brilliant magazine.

[Charlie]

I read just about every issue of .Net (my dad buys it at the airport). It's not very good but occaisionally has a good tutorial in it or something. I can find all the stuff I need on the net nowadays.

[Mr. Bananagrabber]

NOM

*runs away*
You'd better run! :angry: :D
I read those Bitchy magazines in waiting rooms. Some are hilarious, if only because of the fact that people actually write about how much weight some celeb's lost! :doh:

[Indigo]

I don't think I've bought a magazine in over a year. I just don't have the money to be buying them, especially considering that at least on the videogames side of things, it's hard to find a quality magazine for under £4 thesedays.

[link64uk]

pick me up and tv & satellite weekly and sometimes FHM, nuts or zoo *runs for the hills*

[Dieter]

I read Power Unlimited. Because I can't take games.telenet.be to the breakfast table with me :(

[Sexual Chocolate]

Four Four Two and Im just mad about cats.

[RE_volver]

CUBE Magazine, PC Gamer and the occasional copy of various tips mags when they feature games that I have.

[Shmotz]

Just bought PCZone for the first time in about 4 years. Sometimes buy OXM or GQ or something like that. Very occasionally Edge if it has a cover story that interests me greatly.

[bob]

I used to buy NGC, then i stopped. I read New Scientist which lies around the house. I don't buy it though.

[elniro]

I subscribe to Neo, dnt read any other magazines at the moment

[Girly hiyaz!~ Gamer]

Only NOM. doggy.

[Babooo]

Only mag I read is Games tm. The one and only.

And maybe occasionly official PS2 mag, if the demo is good. But thats very rare...this year only bought 1 issue so far.

Games TM all the way baby!

[tendosgirlfriend]

I read:

Heat
Closer
Womans Magazine
NME (subcription although its bad)
Glamour
Bella
Best
More
Cosmopolitan
Kerrang (sometimes)

and others.. :grin:

[ThePigMarcher]

Metal Hammer , Terrorizer , Guitarist and Cube.

[Tphi]

NGC. Tis the best Ninty mag by far.

[Ormingstoke]

NGC, SFX and NOM (seriously considering stopping buying NOM), started reading Empire and Total Film recently too.

[ConanTheLibrarian]

Private Eye and, erm, that's it!

[Retro_Link]

I used to buy Nintendo magazines alot, 'Cube' pretty much ever month and 'NGC' and 'NOM' quite often too;
Then i realised just how much money was actually being spent on these and now i don't buy them anymore; just read all the interesting stuff in the shop!

You can get all the info and more found in game magazines alot quicker online!

Also read the occasional 'Nuts' and 'Zoo', as well as Top Gear magazine, movie mags etc...

[EEVILMURRAY]

Razzle and Reader's Wives.

[Dante]

I used to read CUBE magazine but not anymore

[RoadKill]

I get Computer Buyer for weird legacy reasons, it's got thinner and more expensive in recent years, which blows. It's on subscription.

That's the only thing I have on subscription; if I want to read magazines I'll stand in WHSmiths blocking the isles.

[Platty]

i used to buy NOM every month but only buy it now and again...and sometimes i get gamestm or EDGE if they have something inside them i wanna read about but i dont get them monthly.

i try to get NME every week but sometimes dont manage to but i guess thats the one magazine i always like to read.

and on the odd occasion i get the old nuts/zoo and sometimes loaded or FHM for a perv, especially if the hollyoaks girls are featuring.

[Luigi]

I usually read Nintendo Power, even though it's full of a bunch of bias, repetitive nerds who don't know anything about gaming.

I occassionally read other mags like EGM when I can.

[Mike]

I subscribe to Neo, dnt read any other magazines at the moment

My girlfriend is the deputy editor of that. :)

Anyway, apart frmo Neo, the other other magaznies I read are NOM and NGC.

[Wesley]

I don't buy any anymore.

I used to subscribe to N64/NGC about 2 or so years ago but realised that every issue I was rereading what I had read on the internet.

[Tom The Bomb]

I religiously buy Hyper, and i used to buy Cube, EGM, Nintendo Gamer and a heap of other game magazines. I also get PC mags every now and then.

[Skyla]

I used to buy Hyper, but now I buy EDGE. I think the articles are a much higher quality :D Costs me $15 Australian a month to import it though.

[faz99]

GamesTM and sometimes Edge, but mainly only in the shop, because i wouldnt waste my money on it. Ever again.

[Happenstance]

SFX and Empire at the moment

[jakeee]

I only read a Finnish gaming magazine called 'Pelit' ('Games' in English)

[Mr. Bananagrabber]

I only read a Finnish gaming magazine called 'Pelit' ('Games' in English)It's to the point I suppose.

[Aimless]

For print-based magazines I only buy 'EDGE', but online I also read 'The Escapist (http://www.escapistmag.com/)'.

I used to buy loads of magazines, but now I siphon off that extra cash in to buying actual games rather than just reading about them.

I've got a pretty single-track mind.

[Retro_Link]

I don't buy any anymore.

I used to subscribe to N64/NGC about 2 or so years ago but realised that every issue I was rereading what I had read on the internet.
This is so true, and why i just read the mags in store nowadays!

[GoonFace]

I used to get NGC, then Gamesmaster, but now I get Egde.

[Ashley]

I tend to buy magazines when im bored. They tend to be focused upon TV and such (not like listings but stuff like SFX etc). Bought two copies of Entertainment Weekly over in America and it was good, wish it came out here.

[|Laguna|]

GamesTM is simply a must on subscription as it levels out at 2 quid per magazine which is a truely fantastic price and with GamesTM just reeks of highend class and articles/features that are unavailable on teh Internet.
Oh and NGC but that is simply a habit as I have bene buying since the glory N64 days.

[rizz]

Used to get NOM anymore, but stopped when saving for a trip to america, which got cancelled due to 9/11, after that I just never bothered getting them anymore. And now I don't really get any mags to read. I did get 1 issue of Cube, but that was just for the Splinter Cell demo really.

[Haver]

I used to read pretentious bollocks like EDGE and The Escapist, but then I realised that they were bollocks and stopped.

[EDIT] Forgot GamesTM, which is similarly bollocks, except more bollocks than the rest.

[Ormingstoke]

I tend to buy magazines when im bored. They tend to be focused upon TV and such (not like listings but stuff like SFX etc). Bought two copies of Entertainment Weekly over in America and it was good, wish it came out here.

If you've got a "Borders" bookshop nearby (locations here "http://www.bordersstores.co.uk/LctnDrct.html") they stock "Entertainment Weekly", they tend to be a few weeks behind though, went into one last week and they had the one I'd bought in the US 3 weeks before.

[kopo]

Humo (quality belgian mag, hilarious and has some very creative and good writers who can pen down some of the best word-plays and witty lines in the world) and NGC (good, then i discovered the internet, but i only trust them for reviews for some reason, must be a habit. Kinda stopped reading them lately, dunno if i'm gonna quiet 'em for good )

[Ashley]

If you've got a "Borders" bookshop nearby (locations here "http://www.bordersstores.co.uk/LctnDrct.html") they stock "Entertainment Weekly", they tend to be a few weeks behind though, went into one last week and they had the one I'd bought in the US 3 weeks before.

Nearest Borders to me is Birmingham though, which is 20ish miles. Good to know there, as I smell a Birmingham shopping trip in the new year.

[twilightlink]

I have to say, I tried to get into NGC and CUBE, but i just couldnt, whereas, NOM i can, and so thats the only one for me! (except kererang! but even then i just read my friends copy...)

[dukkadukka]

if any of you read those "women! don't expect any help on a tuesday you skanky bitches!" magazines you should instead be appreciating your beautiful girlfriend fixing your radiator rather than reading smut! and have a wash too, you greasy fiends!

[Aimless]

I used to read pretentious bollocks like EDGE and The Escapist, but then I realised that they were bollocks and stopped.

[EDIT] Forgot GamesTM, which is similarly bollocks, except more bollocks than the rest.
That sounds like pretentious iconoclasm to me.

Making accusations is easy, backing them up is what most people tend to forget.

[Haver]

Aimless, Edge, whatever: I know (and understand why!) you enjoy punctuating game names with italic tags, and using big words and lots of hyphens -- but don't you ever get a bit bored of making yourself sound clever? I do.

If you don't, then that's probably why you read EDGE/Escapist/GamesTM. Somebody once said something, something about talking about something so much that the whole point of the something is lost, and that somebody is probably right. I can stomach EDGE reviews, they're brill, with big words like "autoerotica", but everything else is a pretty tired attempt at gaming academia.

And that's not really the point is it? We've defined 'play' a lot, and we've discussed "are games art?" and we've talked about MMORPGs and that's about it really.

"Autoerotica" is a fun term though, so I'll give you that.

[mario114]

I read (apart form books) ngc, and yes nom (also runs), and The independent, nice mix huh?

[Grebe]

I read the occasional Loaded or Nuts/Zoo, but very ocassionally. I also find it funny to read one of those bitchey magazine thats my mum/sister buys - hilarity.

Other than that - I read books.


Haha what books have you read lately?


On Topic: I read Anime Insider, 442, and that be it. I also collect comics. Spiderman and the fantastic 4. If they count.

[Haver]

I'm reading a book called Graffiti 3, by Nigel Rees. It's full of funny scribbles from various locations.

[Hank Scorpio]

I no longer read any, but back in the day of my magazine reading, my two mags of choice were NOM and Total Football.

[dukkadukka]

Aimless, Edge, whatever: I know (and understand why!) you enjoy punctuating game names with italic tags, and using big words and lots of hyphens -- but don't you ever get a bit bored of making yourself sound clever? I do.

but isn't this all a rather complex way of making yourself seem clever? i don't mean to sound insulting, but since i've been here you seem to be the user with the biggest attitude of self-importance. i really don't mean to offend you, but there's no need to criticise other people for something you're seemingly guilty of yourself. be nice :)

[Haver]

Erm, it was a lead-in, y'know? And um, if you look, I make the point that I do it too?

Wait, so you post on forums for reasons *other* than trying to make yourself seem clever?

[EDIT] And you're right about the whole self-importance thing. I'm a really fat long-haired spec-wearing nerd in the real world, so I need to make myself feel better, y'know?

[Aimless]

Aimless, Edge, whatever: I know (and understand why!) you enjoy punctuating game names with italic tags, and using big words and lots of hyphens -- but don't you ever get a bit bored of making yourself sound clever? I do.
I'm afriad your theory doesn't quite cut it. I'm sure that a lot of people do see the way I write as a way of trumping my own self-importance, but that isn't why I do it — although I admit I've given in to such things more than once. No, I write the way I do because I want to improve my ability, and that requires both vigilance and practise.

If you don't, then that's probably why you read EDGE/Escapist/GamesTM. Somebody once said something, something about talking about something so much that the whole point of the something is lost, and that somebody is probably right. I can stomach EDGE reviews, they're brill, with big words like "autoerotica", but everything else is a pretty tired attempt at gaming academia.
As you said, probably. But I'm afraid it's wide of the mark again. I don't take everything that appears in EDGE as gospel, and if I did it wouldn't do a very good job of fulfilling that which I buy it for: entertainment and an articulation of other people's views.

Perhaps you're right, perhaps it is just an attempt at gaming academia, but that doesn't make it bad. I would say that the gaming industry might be too fledgling a medium to be subjected to deep analysis, but if a magazine such as EDGE can gain respect amongst those who create its subject matter, and more importantly encourage developers to aspire to something 'higher', then it is aiding gaming's growth by extending its appeal to other markets.

And that's not really the point is it? We've defined 'play' a lot, and we've discussed "are games art?" and we've talked about MMORPGs and that's about it really.
You have to learn to walk before you can run. Similarily, you must wait for your legs to grow strong enough to endure the heightened pace before you even think about donning your Nikes. But that metaphor is probably too stretched for anyone to even recognise as coherent thought. I'm not even sure if I do.

Anyway, several reams of text later, we're still standing in exactly the same positions as before; I never was one for rhetoric. All I can say is, "I'm not very clever, I'm a C/D-grade student. If I come across as a real ego then I'm sorry, but my sesquipedalian ways are about expanding my vocabulary rather then my own importance. And yes, that last word was a joke."

[Haver]

I thought we were talking about EDGE? Maybe that says something!

Have some positive rep.

[dukkadukka]

Erm, it was a lead-in, y'know? And um, if you look, I make the point that I do it too?

Wait, so you post on forums for reasons *other* than trying to make yourself seem clever?

[EDIT] And you're right about the whole self-importance thing. I'm a really fat long-haired spec-wearing nerd in the real world, so I need to make myself feel better, y'know?
i post here because it's fun, and there are interesting discussions sometimes. sorry, i didn't mean to offend you, but sometimes your attitude isn't very friendly, and a couple of people have said to me they're upset about the way you treat them, so i just wanted to tell you. i have nothing against you, but you can be very offensive at times.


aaaaanyway, back on topic, i read heat magazine, sometimes edge and *embarassment* new scientist, it's actually a lot more interesting than it sounds lol.

[Haver]

I would say sorry, but you're a girl!

Only mucking!

[Aimless]

Have some positive rep.
Reciprocated.

Hijack over.

[Wesley]

All friends now?

[dukkadukka]

yeah, me and haver have sorted it out by pm too. so let's get back on topic....

NOM is shit!

[Aimless]

aaaaanyway, back on topic, i read *embarassment* heat magazine, sometimes edge and new scientist, it's actually a lot more interesting than it sounds lol.
Corrected!

What's that unravelling sound?

Disclaimer: The contents of this post were prepared in an area that handles jest. May contain traces of joviality.

[kopo]

Damn, i just got out the popcorn expecting a linguistic battle and what do i get. Friendship? Forgiveness? Life sucks *eats popcorn*

[Mr_Odwin]

I first read Crash and then later Mean Machines. You're too old if you remember them.

[Mr. Bananagrabber]

I first read Crash and then later Mean Machines. You're too old if you remember them.
I heard about them in History class!

[zaraki]

A free norewegian game-mag called Gamereactor. Free, but very good.

Why buy when its all on the net.

[gothchild]

NOM, PC Gamer, sometimes CUBE, Empire. Good lot.

[Minlack]

I read PC Zone (THE best PC mag) and NGC. I used to read Cude, untill I swapped it for PC Zone. Lots of other magazines I used to read at my school's library, but I've left there now. Otherwise I just look on the net...

[Hank Scorpio]

I first read Crash and then later Mean Machines. You're too old if you remember them.

:lmao: Man, i totally forgot about Mean Machines, my first ever magazine subscription! What simplistic happy days they were.