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March 13, 2007 7:55 PM

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So I went to a fight tonight and a hockey game broke out!

- The big YouTube lawsuit finally hit
- Teenage girls are fatties
- MySpace Digg clone
- Woo woo!

Lastly, Iran hates artsy movies of dudes with beards yelling

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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baron calamity

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March 13, 2007 8:19 PM

Reminder for the evening crowd. Computer Games Magazine has shut its doors. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13122
- DonkeyPopsicle
  
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  March 13, 2007 8:22 PM
  
  I have very fond memories of reading Computer Games Strategy Plus in the late 90's, and finding it superior to PC Gamer and the wretched Computer Gaming World. I stopped reading before the name change to Computer Games Magazine, though.
  - graceofdragons
    
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    March 13, 2007 8:30 PM
    
    I own every back issue of PC Gamer and CGW from 96-2002, I absolutley adored those mags, and reading Games for Windows brought back some of those memories.
    - pebui
      
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      March 13, 2007 8:48 PM
      
      PCG lately has been about as thin as Time Magazine and it's loaded with ads.
      - graceofdragons
        
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        March 13, 2007 9:17 PM
        
        I miss the 300 page christmas issues :)
  - Daochi
    
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    March 13, 2007 10:15 PM
    
    Same here. I remember how their reviews seemed to be a lot more accurate. I can't remember the staff's names right now, but the editorials were always good too. RIP :-(
- ovrlrd
  
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  March 13, 2007 8:23 PM
  
  It's okay the magazine has sucked for a long time.
- -efx-
  
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  March 13, 2007 8:26 PM
  
  Very sad. Do you think the other ones will be able to continue on for much longer?
  - Blackdawgg
    
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    March 13, 2007 8:41 PM
    
    I don't really see the point of them anymore. A 3 month lead time to print means whatever they have is already old news on the internet. Kind of like MaximumPC, the stuff they preview is on the market by time it reaches the stands and when they knock a product for price its always gone down by then aswell. At around $8-9 for the magazine its overpriced beyond belief.
- graceofdragons
  
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  March 13, 2007 8:28 PM
  
  Yeah, I've been getting Games For Windows Magazine in the mail. It's basicly CGW with a redesign, it's decent but just as Biased as Playstation Official or X Box official mag.
  
  However the whole "Treat PC Games like Console Games" thing I'm really liking.
- JINKY
  
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  March 13, 2007 8:34 PM
  
  this would be sad if that magazine wasn't so shitty. I got that thing for a year and holy crap it was bad
- Sgt_Boomstick
  
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  March 13, 2007 9:14 PM
  
  PC Gamer FTW
- donlo
  
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  March 13, 2007 9:19 PM
  
  anyone remember pcxl? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCXL
  it totally pandered to teenaged hormone crazed gamers, but thats what i was when it was out!
  - datoo
    
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    March 13, 2007 9:57 PM
    
    Fuck yeah that magazine was awesome, I still have a stack of them. The best part about it wasn't the immature "boobies!", but the hilarious reviews of terrible games. I remember they even had an entire issue devoted to the worst games ever. They would print almost anything, I think that's one of the reasons they got shut down.
  - Halen
    
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    March 13, 2007 9:58 PM
    
    Hell I was like 21 and I loved that mag
  - pebui
    
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    March 13, 2007 10:10 PM
    
    I signed up for that free 4 issues a few times, and when I was about to subscribe, it went under, I was already getting PCG.
- vassili_zaitsev
  
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  March 13, 2007 9:19 PM
  
  of all the game mags, i miss NEXT-GENERATION the most. damn internet ruined print media.
  - datoo
    
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    March 13, 2007 10:05 PM
    
    That was a great magazine. They were very professional, great graphic design.