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The future of games journalism

I forget who was running the promotion, but recently I signed up for a free subscription to EGM. I guess it took effect last week, because on Friday I got an issue in the mail.

The May 2006 issue. While it was pretty hilarious1 to read about the Nintendo Revolution and the rumors over the PS3's price point (could be as much as $500!), the whole issue offered constant reminders of why blogs and the Internet have made gaming magazines pretty much obsolete. Plus I had to wade through like eight pages of ads just to get to the table of contents. Where's my Saft for print?

Then on Saturday I got the June issue. OK, I thought, I guess they're pretty much caught up. Maybe I got in on the last couple days when they were sending out the May issue, or something.

Then today I got the July issue. So now they're definitely caught up (I haven't looked inside yet, but the cover finally mentions Wii), but then two thoughts entered my mind:

1) I'm already 1/4th of the way through my subscription, and I've been getting them for three days. Would the same thing have happened if I were paying for these?

2) Am I going to get the August issue in my mailbox tomorrow? Will I already be reading reviews of next Spring's new titles by next week? Time warp publishing could be just the edge EGM needs to compete with everyone on the Web.

1 To me.

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