The final issues of Xbox World and PSM3 went on sale today. GamesAsylum takes a quick look.
Future’s GamesRadar+ has smashed its monthly user records in December 2015 with 11.3m people visiting the website.
This is the second record-breaking month in a row after the site hit 9.8m unique users during November 2015.
Furthermore, this growth in December represents a 29 per cent year-on-year growth over the 8.8m users GamesRadar+ saw during December 2014.
Prankster101 asks as to whether there is any future left for Future?
The digitisation of everything in our fast paced world has been leaving more and more traditional companies behind who have failed to adapt quickly enough to the transformation of traditional forms of physical media.
Print media is possibly most the most affected in this transition period, where niche magazines struggle to stay afloat due to falling advertising revenues, contending with the never-ending stream of free content online.
Last week it was reported how Future Publishing is proposing to close CVG, Edge Online and the websites for Official PlayStation, Official Xbox and Official Nintendo but should we be surprised?
With Future publishing revealing new strategies, concentrating on advertising space rather than proper content, this will ultimately benefit nobody because you need quality content and engagement with your readers for advertising to be a success.
I found it funny how they tried to charge for their online site, when there are so many better and free sites around.
serves them right for years of terrible reviews that made bad game look good costing me and everyone else money on garbage.
i miss the days of buying an official playstation magazine and getting the demo disc, they were fun times.
Sad to see all these magazines being forced to close. EGM, Game Pro, Nintendo Power, Nintendo Gamer...
The real sad fact is that it's not always survival of the fittest, either.
The digital age takes some more victims.
In a way, it is survival of the fittest. Those that have adapted to both offering their magazine in a digital format, as well as giving enough unique content to worth subscribing, are still around.
An avid reader of gaming magazines, but with everything from news to reviews available in abundance on the net there's just no point in them any more. Even if you don't have Internet at home, there's bound to be a library close by.
I guess you could say sites like n4g + internet helped kill gaming magazines.
Just look in the local walgreens. You'll hardly see anything game related there anymore.
You can get information for free now...This is inevitable and the gaming magazine industry isn't the only one suffering either.
Tabloids, newspapers, etc...
Again- why pay for something you wait to get in the mail that costs money when you can simply log online and learn instantly somewhere else? Digital publishing isn't the future, it's now.