Hence the username.

Pooter games have gone crap - I don't need to explain my reasoning behind saying this to anyone do I?
And magazines can clearly never be like YS or AP again, as the Digi experiment has just shown.
So why don't we all just give up now? We'll lock ourselves in a big warehouse with all our remaining speccy tapes and 50 tons of TNT. It's got to be better to go that way than having a heart attack over the sheer hideous awfulness of FIFA 2056.

Sob.

Sigh.

In no paticular order all of the PC games I am looking forward too:

Tron 2.0
Half-Life 2
UFO: Aftermath
Breed
Chrome
X2: The Threat

Shock! PC games are not easy pick up and play games I admit that. IT does not make them bad. IT DOES NOT MAKE THEM BAD.

The PC is capable of games way more immersive and deep then anything on the console. THIS DOES NOT MAKE CONSOLE GAMING BAD.

Hang on, when you say "pooter games" do you specificaly mean PC games? Am I ranting innapropriately?

No, I just meant video games in general, however I include PC games in those. Having said that, I am going to buy a PC quite soon specifically to play Half-Life 2 (cough and study at uni cough).

I was just feeling a bit crap about the state of it all after re-reading all the stuff about Digi's demise.

Maybe being old just sucks.

Yes at the start of the summer my love and interest in games was returned, largely due to Digi, and games like Wario Ware (funnily enough recommended by Digi). And now Digi is gone, and everything is bland and pants again. not wario ware but, I've played it loads now.... Although my interest in getting a chipped Xbox has been piqued. I just.... who the hells gonna tell us funny and good stuff about games man?

It was like an affair* with a beautiful woman on holiday where everything is sunny, only to return to something a whole lot less appetising. Or you realise that the affair was actually a gin induced dream. Ooh look someones coming out the shower!


*I'm not endorsing such actions of course.

Except that the woman is also terribly bitter, but you can tell loves the sun really, although she's been staring at it for too long and there's sand in her ears. Oh and the woman is also poor. And drunk. And might just be some old beach hobo you've been crudely violating for 50p a week.

What's that you say? Yes, perhaps now would be a good time to end the post.

It's not that we'll never see a magazine of the Digiworld/AP/YS style again, more that it's going to be a while. The rot really started to set in when the Playstation (the original one) became popular in a mass market kind of a way. Suddenly all the magazine publishers noticed that gaming had become a popular, socially acceptable pastime, and so all their new launches (and to an extent, their existing magazines) were aimed at the Loaded and FHM audience. Now the thing is, the people that buy Loaded and FHM are not necessarily interested enough in gaming to buy a games magazine. And the people who want to buy games magazines are not necessarily the same people who want to buy a Loaded or FHM style magazine.

But the publishers don't care, because even if they are making magazines which nobody particularly likes, where the content is untrustworthy, dull or just plain rubbish, it doesn't matter. Because people keep buying them.

So why would an established publisher play around with what is currently a winning formula? Games + Tits + Lazy + Bribe = Massive sales.

The best hope is some independent publisher coming along and doing something different. But nobody would buy it because nobody buys magazines from independent publishers, and that's partly because unless you've got massive sales on something already established, the chances are you're not going to get the shelf space. And the magazine will be dead within a couple of months.

Something something.