Future US and Sony announced today that Future US would be publishing a new magazine called PlayStation: The Official Magazine. The new publication will have an initial circulation of 300,000 copies and will launch with a Holiday 2007 edition on sale in late November.
The magazine will be published on a frequency of 13 issues per year. The coverage in the magazine will be official news, previews and reviews for PlayStation enthusiasts and users. Rob Smith, former Editor-in-Chief of PlayStation Magazine will be the Editor-in-Chief for PlayStation: The Official Magazine.
Future US publishes some very popular special interest magazines in America including Maximum PC, Mac|Life, Guitar World, Nintendo Power and more. The new magazine will cover the PSP, PS3 and future PlayStation platforms.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
a New subscriber for the 13 issues. I hope it comes with demos.
The UK mag has been like this for a while now. It's sure beats having separate mags for different consoles.
Now that am here I guess Ill subscribe to this my self
Is there going to be demos with the magazine like the uk one
thats one of the reasons OPM went out of buisness because it was too costly to produce and offer demo discs for the ps3.