Computer Gaming World is no more

[StriderKyo]

John Davidson was talking about this on the 1up podcast (which is kind of entertaining because it's just four guys getting wasted and talking/cursing/ranting about games for 45 minutes). He said it's in their contract that they're fully independent, and free to criticize as they wish.

But with MS looking to position windows as a gaming platform marketed like consoles are (unified packaging, in-store demo kisks, etc.) they said it was a good way to get in with that.

And/or get paid. Whichever.

[Tommy Tallarico]

Why the hell would Sega approve that?

We've all asked this to ourselves hundreds of times to the hundreds of dumb things Sega did. What makes you think their magazine was exempt from their stupidity?

[ChaoofNee]

Hah. Point taken.

[Kev]

ODCM made me laugh a few times. Anything made by the ex-Game Player crew was a rag with sometimes-interesting articles and juvenile humor. Taken as such, they were pretty fun to read. Game Player/Ultra Game Player was the funniest of the Imagine Media rags years ago, though I probably wouldn't find them as funny now.

[Changeling]

Its a shame you didn't read PCAccelerator. Great magazine. Up there with Gamefan as my favorite.

[Mzo]

I used to have a subscription to Computer Games Strategy Plus, I think they changed their name to just Computer Games a while back but they were the shit.

[Diff-chan]

PCXL is trash, GameFan was trash, CGS+ was awesome. It might still be today, I haven't read it in forever. It's the last American (world?) PC mag worth a damn now, though. If it's good. Which I don't know. I haven't read it. I hope it is. PC Gamer is misery.