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He Said There’s A Storm Coming

Posted by Alec Meer on April 8th, 2008.

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We’d heard a few reports that Games For Windows magazine wasn’t doing so well since its… puzzling 2006 rebrand to a Microsoft-sponsored title. Who knows whether or not ditching the Computer Gaming World name it’d carried since 1981 truly did harm sales, but the whispers that publisher Ziff Davis was worried about bankruptcy were a surer sign that unhappy change might be coming.

Still, the news that one of the eldest gaming mags is dead is a shocker. Well, dead-ish.
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