Where's my Games TM Magazine?

[chocky909]

Hey

Anybody here subscribed to any of the following Highbury Entertainment / Paragon magazines?

here

There seems to be some problem with the delivery of my subscription (Games TM - far superior to Edge IMO). Subscription hotline just has an answer machine saying they are having problems but everything will be ok soon. Very vague.

Anyone have any idea what the problem is? The last issue (40) was due on 29 Dec !!!

Yeah, Highbury are deeply deeply in debt. They should off a lot of the magazines and for a while it seems that GamesTM would also not be around. A animal crossing edition is out in the stores right now, with 4 different colour covers etc etc

I suggest you get the hell out of that subscription if I was you. Highbury are going down

[chocky909]

Thanks. Yeah, I got the feeling it was something like that. They're still happily taking new subscriptions though.

I'm wondering whether to cancel my Direct Debit now or later. Last payment was taken 30 Nov, and it's every 3 three months so I might as well leave it until the middle of February and see what happens.

I hope I can manage to find the latest issue in the shops, it's a bit late now. 4 different covers you say?

BTW where did you get your info from?

Around the net, but here is a link to one of the news storys

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story...679900,00.html

Yeah, i think it was animal crossing for the DS and they had a different background behind the house morning, day, evening and night

I say you cancel the debit. You can always re-activte if the magazines changes publisher and can survive. But it may be coming to a end

The site for gamesTM has been down for a bit

[chocky909]

Well - I managed to find a copy of issue No40 today (Happy Birthday Games TM). Think it's 'Summer' cover. Just in time.

Thing is it's the 26th Jan today, issue No41 is due out - would appreciate a heads up if anyone spots it in the shops - although I don't hold out much hope.

Incidentally, apart from Edge (too heavy for me - aimed too much at people who make games), what other quality games mags are there out there. Just grown up journalism is what I'm after.

Originally Posted by chocky909

Well - I managed to find a copy of issue No40 today (Happy Birthday Games TM). Think it's 'Summer' cover. Just in time.

Thing is it's the 26th Jan today, issue No41 is due out - would appreciate a heads up if anyone spots it in the shops - although I don't hold out much hope.

Incidentally, apart from Edge (too heavy for me - aimed too much at people who make games), what other quality games mags are there out there. Just grown up journalism is what I'm after.

You really are looking at EDGE I am sad to say. The rest are written for 10 year olds. EDGE isnt that bad, it is a bit full of itself but it better than the usual crap

[jellybaby]

Agreed about getting out of the subscription. My company used to do alot of work for them, but we have pulled out for obvious reasons

[chocky909]

oh yeah i cancelled it.

Hopefully some other publishing house'll snap up the remnants of games tm and start another alternative.

I loved Zero magazine! Anyone else remember that?

[Estel]

Hey, I was just looking and researching into the current lack of Games TM on the shelves (I was busy blaming WH Smith ) and I found this site, and more importantly, this thread, which says that Imagine have taken over 24 of their magazines, and are currently looking into which to drop

[chocky909]

Wow! Thanks for that Estel.

Hopefully Games TM will survive the crossover and we'll see it again shortly. Fingers crossed it'll be improved too. The chatline ads were annoying everyone so less of those please.

[paulj256]

Originally Posted by chocky909

oh yeah i cancelled it.

Hopefully some other publishing house'll snap up the remnants of games tm and start another alternative.

I loved Zero magazine! Anyone else remember that?

Yeah I Do. I was a Zero Hero cos I got a letter published in the mag. I got 2 Zero Hero metal badges. Top Mag along with ZZap 64!