Sad news. There's basically no magazines left. All the American ones closed years ago. There is not a single Nintendo-focused magazine in existence. And now there's only 3 multiformat mags: EDGE, Game's in house mag, and I think GameInformer in the US is still printed?
Dark days compared to 1995 when there were at least 30+ games magazines on the shelves of stores like WH Smith and John Menzies.
At least Retro Gamer is still around.
I never wrote for GamesMaster, but chatted with the editor about pitching features. I did however freelance for GamesTM a fair bit. In-house and externally. Really sad to see it go. Though in fairness I have not enjoyed it much for quite a few years. It became very dry and the design was much more stale than its early years, seemingly trying to be like EDGE, rather than its own distinct entity.
I had been planning to sell my entire collection, apart from issues I wrote for. Reckon I might keep them now, for nostalgia's sake. 16 years ago it came out.
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