EGM is back....as an online mag

[Zeus]

Just found out about this myself. Anyone else seen this site?

http://www.egmnow.com/

[Blotus]

I did. I'd pick up the physical mag if I could find it but I have yet to see it anywhere. It would probably be smart for them not to sell the mag in Canada.

I want the pdf of the "lost" issue.

Hmm...

Hey, a torrent.

[Zeus]

Hmm, I'll have to go and grab that now too

[Kupek]

I saw a copy at the grocery store, and I picked it up out of curiosity. I'm disappointed. The writing is not good. In the articles I read, the author tried to hard to be funny, or didn't have any insight of their own. Just quotes strung together with little of substance inbetween. It reminds me the writing in a college newspaper. There's also not much content. The cover, SF article takes up 11 pages, and there's maybe 3 real pages of text.

[Zeus]

I saw a copy at the grocery store, and I picked it up out of curiosity. I'm disappointed. The writing is not good. In the articles I read, the author tried to hard to be funny, or didn't have any insight of their own. Just quotes strung together with little of substance inbetween. It reminds me the writing in a college newspaper. There's also not much content. The cover, SF article takes up 11 pages, and there's maybe 3 real pages of text.

Near the end the quality certainly decreased. But for a long time, EGM was the mag (when Next Gen died) that had decent articles and stories. I started reading it at issue 12 (the one with Ninja Gaiden 2 on the cover; amazing for back then) and it was always my fav. After the 'Net came about, it was really the only one worth the coin.

Ziff Davis just demolished it for no reason. It had a 500,000 or so subscriber base and they killed it.