My Favourite Magazines
Aug 25th, 2008 by Los Havros
No matter how good online news and entertainment services get, there’ll always be a special place for magazines in my life. It’s the textured feel of holding a magazine in your hands and the fresh smell from the printing press as you tear open the plastic cover.
For a long time I subscribed to both ComputerActive and the Official PlayStation Magazine (then the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine). I suppose ComputerActive gave me a good grounding in how computers work and what you can do with them. I’ve stopped getting all PlayStation magazines as they are quite expensive for what they are, and in the era of downloadable demos on the PlayStation Store, who needs demo disks anymore? I’m not paying £5.99+ for that!
However, I am now diversifying in what I’m reading. I’m still subscribing to ComputerActive, which must be a good 8 years or so now! Yet I’m now thinking it may be time to cancel my subscription as I’ve really outgrown what it has to offer me. For the past couple of years I’ve been getting .net on an ad-hoc basis as I’m really into my web design these days and online culture in general. With .net’s issues being very useful, entertaining and informative time and again, I plumped for taking out a subscription which has probably been one of the best decisions I’ve made!
A selection of magazines I read
What about games, you might say? Well I thought I had that covered. Who needs to buy a games magazine when you’ve got everything you ever wanted to know already up online, often a week or two before they appear in magazines? I was wrong. By chance a copy of Edge magazine caught my eye and so I bought it (the price was quite reasonable too, for the amount of content it had). Inside were pages upon pages of really good in-depth articles about everything and anything gaming-related.
So it seems I will be subscribing to Edge magazine in the near future! Best thing is, as it is a multi-format magazine I can keep my eye on the bigger picture within the gaming world, that I might otherwise overlook whilst browsing more PlayStation-centred sites online.
Oh, I almost forgot. On the subject of music I’ve occasionally bought a copy of Kerrang! but it hasn’t been consistently good enough to warrant getting it regularly. I guess I get my music info from the papers and online, with some recommendations from friends.
Well, that’s my little focus on magazines and which ones I enjoy reading. Are there any magazines that you can’t live without? Are there possibly any magazines you simply can’t stand? Let me know!
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