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» GeForce Now And Then
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» Smokpub
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» Backlogged: Wytchwood
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» Five Films I Like
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» Fed Up Already?
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» LOTRO 2025 and a Sparse Yet Chaotic Roadmap Ahead
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» Catching Up On 2024: A Short List Look Back
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» TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 Draft Results
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» World of Warcraft: Backpackin’ through Azeroth
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» I Know What I Did Last Weekend
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» Signs Of The End Times : #1 In An Infinite Series
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» Nuclear Nightmare could be fun, eventually.
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» Microblogging Journal through 1/6/2025
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» Yellowstone and Territory
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» Best Board Games of 2024!
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» Pictures And Words
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Her magazine, maybe? I think the publisher is a woman? I think I learned that much from the website.
If this Massive magazine is the same as the one I’m thinking of, there’s a bit of history behind it. There’s a short bit of the story on Wikipedia. I don’t know how it got from there to where it is now, but it’s some sort of relaunch with different owners, perhaps?
Brasse might be able to give us some details over on the CoW boards, she has quite a few articles in the current edition.
The magazine industry is brutal. When Games for Windows (formerly CGW) is folding up shop, you know it’s not easy to make a living writing about games. I’m sure that has a lot to do with why Massive is so expensive (they probably don’t make as much in advertising as a magazine supported by a huge conglomerate), but yeah, I find it unlikely I’d drop that much money once to try it out.
Rick, part of what got my rant engine going full-bore last night was that I worked with some of the folks at the original Massive Magazine. Specifically I worked at Computer Games Magazine before it was bought by TheGlobe and run into the ground. I wanted the first mag to succeed both for selfish reasons (I *want* this kind of a mag!) and for the sake of old friends like Cindy Yans, who was Computer Games Adventure/RPG editor and who wrote a lot for Massive.
Now, seeing Brasse’s name in the ToC as much as it is, I want this new mag to do well both for her sake (new friends?) and because I want to know I can buy a sub with confidence.
But a decent website is crucial these days. It’s just frustrating to me to see so much being done so wrong this early in the mag’s lifespan. They’re spending money to establish a presence at GenCon and SOE Fan Faire. Why not spend a bit more to throw together a decent site with 2-3 articles from the initial issue?
Honestly if I were launching a magazine today, I’d totally skip the print part and focus on online. I’ve been in the magazine industry for about 15 years now and the writing is pretty much on the wall for niche print publications.
They’re bringing the things you mentioned together – the website is being worked on & they have two article samples from this issue available on the net.
http://www.mpogd.com/news/?ID=4010 has the latest press release from Massive Gamer (They’re on their third issue now).
I’d like to hear more of what you expect & what you’d like to see from Massive Gamer. If you’d like to share, please e-mail me at theresa@eekabeep.com.
If you head over to http://www.massivegamer.com you will see that everything has changed. The web site development was several months behind the magazine deployment, which has now been remedied.
Wow Mark, that’s great! Much, much better. Thanks for letting us know!