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Someone pointed out that TNL is basically the successor to GameFan. I agree. I think this site offers something that IGN and GameSpot do not.
What about turning the review portion of TNL into a GameFan online? That is, charge $10-20 a year for the reviews and such. Get the site to be treated as a professional site rather than a fan site, so it can get review copies before games are released, beta previews, etc.
Thoughts?
arn't both ign and gs running in the red?
Hrm.
We do get copies of preview software (see my preview for Star Trek on the front page?) from an (increasing) number of publishers and devs. We just need to get better organized (which we are) and get new management (which we did) and get better and more consistent output (which we're working on). That, coupled with the ever discussed but never happenening design change, should help TNL really get to another level.
It wouldn't hurt if a few more of the forum folk would peek out of their cave once in a while and peruse the reviews/previews etc.. on the front page and add commentary as they see fit. <Nudge>
IGN is actually in the black now. They posted their first profits not too long ago, so I believe they're financially secure from here on out.
I'm all for people charging whatever they want for their services.
That said, I wouldn't pay .01 cent to read any review on any site, this included.
I don't think TNL is the successor to GameFan in any sense of the word.
"I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Jack Kennedy." -- Lloyd Bentsen
Yeah, I'm down with that. Charging for reviews isn't going to work here - but that's not what we're after in any sense of the imagination either.
As for being a successor to GameFan? Nah. It might have somewhat of a similar spirit, in some ways, but it's not GameFan in the afterlife. GameFan is best left where it is - dead and buried and fondly remembered by some.
I don't like paying for reviews unless it's printed on something that I can take to the toilet with me.
Gamefan is gone and dead and I could careless.
I love TNL but sorry, I wouldn't pay a dime for it or any other gaming site.
There's a front page?
TNL forums > Gamefan.
Play magazine is the spiritual successor to Gamefan since Gamefan and many of its aspects were a Halverson creation. As for the post-Halverson GF era, I think gamers should move past the narrow Japanophile, Anti-3d, Anti-Western, ideology that has plagued the "hardcore" crowd for some time. Gamefan is best left in the past.