Comments on: He Said There’s A Storm Coming

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:14:14 +0000

I have to say their podcast was one of my favourite (if not THE favourite) podcasts I listen(ed) to, I hope they keep it up under a different name, but with the same people.
As for the magazine, I only saw the one or the other issue whilst in the US, can’t say much about it. For me it was really just the podcast.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:42:41 +0000

They've started putting old installments of Tom vs Bruce online. According to Green, TvB should make the transition, as long as everyone involved still wants to do it.

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:10:29 +0000

I love [PC Gamer UK], and it’s not like it takes long to read, but, well, since they started putting pretty much everything online, I’m not really sure what I’m paying for.

I started a subscription 2 months ago, and what’s even worse now is that I’ve gotten the last 2 issues 2 weeks later and 4 weeks late respectively, by which time I’d read much of the content on the website. Normally I buy the mag from the shops on the publication day, so avoiding most of the content on the site.

After enquiring at the Future magazine support line about this, I got a callback yesterday from a guy suggesting that the reason for the delay was “it was being passed around the local houses”. No, I have no absolutely no idea what he meant, either. If the May issue is late, I’ll just cancel.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:17:41 +0000

Name was a sufficient putoff for me to never read this magazine. Suffice to say I was never aware of the CGW-to-GFW handover. I did buy a few issues of CGW about a decade ago.

I don’t do mags any more because they are hideously expensive when I consider I can get all of this information from a selection of unbiased sources online (and if it’s an exclusive -from a scan somewhere, somehow). Add to this the fact that the readers’ comments will usually pick up on anything the reviewer had to leave out because of space constraints, and I have a system that works for me. RockPaperShotgun, Mod Database and EuroGamer, with a light sprinkling of MetaCritic, GameSpot, and the Gamasutra/GameSetWatch/GamePolitics RSS feeds, are more than enough to keep me informed and entertained.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:14:08 +0000

I’m a subscriber. Yeah, the name change was dumb, though I remember chuckling and thinking “well, at least they’re honest. It’s not like CGW was covering lots of Mac or Linux options.”

Biggest thing I’ll miss (as someone else mentions above) is Tom vs Bruce.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:07:48 +0000

I like the GFW podcast a lot (never read the mag), but I do wish they wouldn’t talk about Lost so much.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:54:30 +0000

If you don't listen to it (or haven't listened to the current episode), download the latest GFW podcast from 1UP. The guys talk a lot about what happened and their thoughts on the industry at large. And ways to make it a better place for the writers and the readers.

By: Myros

Myros — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:42:17 +0000

Sorry to see this classic go. Still had a huge collection of really old issues until a recent move from Florida to Scotland forced some tough choices. Ah well.

Cant say they were of much interest to me recently though, partly due to the interent and great sites like this and partly to the whole microsoft thing.

Sad to see it go, glad it makes no difference to me whatsover … long live RPS ;p

By: teo

teo — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:29:54 +0000

I just cancelled my PCG UK subscription to get this one instead

sucks
PCG should try to get with the times and realize that people will already know most of what they’ve written because of the internet

“CGW had this coming… Games for windows.. seriously not even Robbie Williams sold out that much.”

They had more integrity than almost any other gaming publication out there. And I am unable to express myself without resorting to childish insults.

By: AbyssUK

AbyssUK — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:45:00 +0000

CGW had this coming… Games for windows.. seriously not even Robbie Williams sold out that much.

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:09:59 +0000

I started reading CGW when I was ten, just before Age of Empires and Starcraft came out. From that time, I watched it thin from a nearly half-inch thick publication (and not just adverts, by the way) to one of the oversized, plasticine picturebooks we see today.

I’m not sure when I stopped reading mags altogether, but there was a games-journalism void for several years until I found RPS.

By: Vollgassen

Vollgassen — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:51:21 +0000

Funny I was thinking about cancelling my PCG subscription and getting GFW instead just this morning. PCG (US) has been trash for quite some time now.