PC Gaming print media - anyone still read any?

[Spud1]

There was a time when I subscribed to the once legendary PCGamer print magazine, getting my massive glossy mag with a couple of floppy discs on the front posted to me every month. Over the years I defected once or twice to PCZone, before finally moving to PCFormat and then to getting all my information from the internet.

I've all but abandoned PCGaming mags now, DVDs full of shareware and videos i've played with/watched a month ago, full of old news that hexus.gaming reported last year...The only interesting reason to buy a mag such as PCG these days is the editorial content/read contributions - and theres almost none of this content left in these magazines anymore (letters used to be 4-5 pages..1-2 now..used to be 2 large editorial pieces/articles..now theres 1). All the news I want I can get online, and while its nice to have a magazine there is just little point for me anymore - especially at £6-£7 a pop.

So does anyone still read a gaming magazine? Those that do, which one is it? PCG? PCZ or something else?

NB i'm talking squarely PC related mags here, not playstation magazine etc

[Russ]

only magazine i get is Evo, i always had PC Gamer CVG and PS mag.

[Odc]

I used to get gaming mags back in the day before I used the internet a lot. Now with sites like Gamespot, Digg and Joystiq I don't really see the point in shelling out £5 a month for stuff that I can get for free.

[Stewart]

Used to read PC Pro (proper PC mag, not some gaming rag) but now broadband has been invented, I don't bother.

[Agent]

I read Edge.

[Ferral]

Not as much as I used to. I did have a PC Zone sub a few years back. Now I stick with HEXUS Gaming, Gamespot, IGN, Action Trip and Gamershell.

Occasionally I will pick up a copy but now it is around every 6 months.

[tigerboyce]

i buy PC Gamer when im looking for a good review of a featured game as they are usually about 4 or 5 pages long, but apart frmo that theres noting i dont ever find in Edge its definetly a magazine for the more mature gamer

[spazman]

I used to subscribe to PC Zone, simply because it was a couple of quid less than PC Gamer. Since the price got jacked up to the ridiculous £6 mark i stopped.

[roorooroo]

Nah, stopped buying any gaming mags ages ago..last one I bought was PCZone about 6 years ago on a whim. Not worth the cash now the internet is in full swing.
One of the highlights of my week was buying Crash, Popular Computing Weekly et al back in the good old days.

[Fabula]

Used to subscribe to PCFormat. But it hasn't been worth it for the last 6 years or so, as internet speeds and articles have negated the value in the magazine with cover disk/cd/dvd.

[unreal]

I'm a subscriber to CustomPC but I really must cancel my subscription sometime, not into the whole PC gaming/modding scene as much as I used to be.

[Deadlight]

i'M a subscriber to PCZ. Good writers, make me chuckle still.

[kalniel]

PC Gamer is very well written and I love reading it, it's just too expensive to subscribe to so I only buy the odd issues when they've got something in that I'm interested in.

PC Format is a bit cheaper, but it's poorly written and I objected to their putting random models on the front cover for no apparent reason. I think they've stopped that now, but I've not forgiven them yet

[Gunwitch]

Use to get pc zone, pc gamer, pc format like a numpty, then found the internet and stopped buying them. Occasionally get computer shopper once in a blue moon

[idimmu]

i used to read pcg, occasionally pcz... was never a subscriber though. laster on i started reading cpc, but again im not really into that anymore, and its easy enough to find everything i need to know about online.

[gtech]

Yup still buy pczone and pcgamer, havent got a wireless laptop so need something to read whilst drooping the kids of at the pool