"Base", Kev and TheFreak ([info]kevservo) wrote,
@ 2002-04-25 20:09:00
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Current mood: angry
Current music:"Imperial March"--John Williams

SAY IT ISN'T SO!!!
Gamespot sells out


This is a dark day in the history of gaming.


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[info]firehawke
2002-04-25 05:43 pm UTC (link)
Well, there went the last decent source of game information online. IGN sold out long ago, and Daily Radar was never really accurate.

The problem is that these guys don't understand that what they provide isn't really worth paying magazine rates for. If I want to pay $20 a year for the info, I'll subscribe to a magazine that I can keep *physically* in my collection for reference. After all, a magazine subscription may run out but the magazines can still be read afterwards!

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[info]kevservo
2002-04-25 09:17 pm UTC (link)
You're absolutely right.

The GIA's account should be dead any time now (I haven't been able to get myself to look at the site since it closed, I still think it was an aweful prank to pull), and with it goes all the movies, music, interviews, and columns that site had put almost 3 years into. I have no clue where I'm going to find the Piposauru or Chu Chu Rocket commercials without that place.

But like you said, with magazines, the reference is there for as long as you care. I have issues of Nintendo Power stretching between 1988 and 1997, and if it's worth looking back at an old column, I'm gonna keep that issue until sometime down the line. If it's one thing this so-called 'digital age' hasn't perfected yet is reference archival. And at the rate that the internet is falling it'll probably never happen. Vive le Magazine Rack! Bring Back Gamefan!

-TF

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