I read Play magazine. It's great! It covers video games, anime, and tech, my three favorites. I also love the layout of it, especially when there's concept art shown for each game covered.

I definitely believe there's a future, since it doesn't really seem that digital magazines aren't that popular just yet. Perhaps in the future, when you subscribe to a magazine, you'll get an eBook edition of each issue as well. Then the transition may be easier.

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Once upon a time, but not any more. The internet just seems to get the information much faster(who'da thunkit?)

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Dear god, Nights sucked.

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I've got a "free" subscription to Game Informer through GameStop (most of the games I buy are used) and I've just started to throw them out after the past two months. Half of it is outdated information that I've already read online through sites like Joystiq and Kotaku or seen full discussions on aggregate sites. The rest of it is out-of-the-park awful. You see Chocobo's Dungeon given a 5.5 and FF4ds rated the same as the ripoff that's Rock Band Wii. Everything's stuck between too many ads and cluttered layouts with the sole exception of the main article.

tl;dr: Online sites do it harder, better, faster, stronger; monthly gaming zines are on the way to anachronisms faster than newspapers and 3.5" floppy drives.

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No, I don't read paper mags. They're too slow in writing about the latest exciting things. And you can't comment directly.
Also, to be viable, a paper mag has to cover a wide range. I'm not interested in Wii, PS3, PSP, Xbox, PC, etc. news, so 90% would be useless to me anyway.

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Most definitly, I subscribed to the Dutch Nintendo Mag: NGamer, sometimes I import foreign mags like EDGE.
The pile of game-mags is growing fast.

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I love Nintendo Power! It's great to read for insight into new and upcoming games... I do enjoy online sites and blogs quite a bit, but Nintendo Power goes into great depth and holds it's weight with the online resources, quite well! :-)

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I get EGM, and I find it quite informative. Blogs and message boards are nice for the very latest rumors, tidbits, and their confirmations, but I enjoy reading larger articles. I would never bother reading Playstation Magazine or Nintendo Power, because those are obviously biased to some extent and don't really give you full coverage of the gaming world.

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I've been a Ninty Power subscriber for the last two years. It's nice to read the featured articles, and i actually think it's decent as an info source.

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I used to get Nintendo Power but I got tired of paying 30$ a year to get magazines with information that's already outdated by the time it gets to me. I check the internet too frequently for it to be beneficial. I suppose the occasional interview and exclusive content was interesting.

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I like gaming mags, but I don't like spending money on them. Though, now that I have a well-paying job, it doesn't seem so bad.

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I read EGM as a teenager. My high school library had a subscription to it, so I would thumb through the pages to keep up with what the other kids were playing so I could at least pretend to know what I was talking about if a gaming conversation came out of nowhere (all I had was a Gamecube, and this in a sea of children who played nothing but FPS.)

Now that I have the internet, actually subscribing to a game magazine has become all but pointless. I've toyed with the thought of subscribing to Nintendo Power, but I hear from other people that its glory days are long past and, furthermore, even within a magazine devoted to two consoles they have to divide their space evenly among most upcoming games. Paying a subscription fee for information that's mostly irrelevant to me isn't exactly appealing, so I've stuck to the internet. I think its advantages have been summed up nicely by the people above me, so I'll avoid redundancy here.

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I use to be a looong time Nintendo Power Subscriber. That was back when the Nes just came out, I was subscribed all the way to the N64 era. But when the 64 came you then had playstation and the soon to come Dreamcast in the future.

It was getting to be a hassle to have one magazine geared towards one system only. I still have about 60+ of ooold magazines in storagethat I haven't thrown out yet.

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I like magazines, but I think they are getting lazy. At some point they just decided the internet was the wave of the future, and started giving reader's about 1/3 of the pages and twice the advertising, while still charging more and more (in fact, Nintendo Power doesn't print the US price on it's Canadian editions so that magazine and book shops can't charge the US price for it like they do now since the loonie and the dollar hit parity. Which is....evil? Yes, evil).

I actually hate reading gaming news and the like online. I hate the immediacy of it, the signal to noise ratio is such that there are more stories about rumours and things that might maybe happen in Japan than there are about actual things that are happening or coming out. I want my magazines back! I want those old issues of GamePro with 300 pages in them, Nintendo Power that I don't have to pay 13$ for just to read 2 pages of reviews!

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I used to subscripe to NP and EGM, but the mags are stacked with so much advertising these days that 50% of the pages are just that.

Plus there is also the issue of how to deal with getting rid of the stacks and stacks of mags that are more or less useless after you're done reading them.

I haven't subscribed for years now, and I doubt that I ever will again. Save some trees, get your info on the net :)

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I have a subscription to Nintendo Power that I got for pretty cheap through my little brother's school, otherwise I wouldn't bother because it's not worth the money like aj said.
I usually read everything, except anything that has to do with sports games (I hate this genre with a passion!!) Lately it seems like NP has been giving more coverage to the Wii then the DS. (why is the console always viewed as superior to the handheld?!) I prefer my DS to my Wii, so I'm getting a little annoyed.

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I don't bother paying for something that I can get for free. (Sort of
like G4)

The internets is a much better resource, but there are obviously
people that don't have access or don't know where to look. I think
gaming magazines can attract to them. Other times it's just
preference; they'd rather read it when they want where they want
instead of sitting in a chair staring at a screen.

I used to get Nintendo Power (stopped because it's just bad) and Game
Informer (eh, mostly stuff I already heard about) but I never
resubscribed, and don't plan on it.

I just regularly check Joystiq, (System) Fanboy, Engadget, Kotaku,
Digg, G4... it's just more convenient for me to do than getting
magazines

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Printed for games? Really, no.

It's a real waste of money, ok some sites are totally fake in his reviews (like gametrailers) because of the ads and microsoft.

Anyway, if I want to know about a game I can go in the official website and read some info in the internet, I don't need magazines.

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