EGM Rises From the Ashes

Because you can't get the experience of holding a print magazine in your hands from a computer.

Also, feel free to tell those without laptops to haul their computers into the bathroom with them.

agreed.

I fail to see how print magazines can stay relevant to anyone with an even basic internet connection.

For example, I used to religiously buy PCGamer magazine. Here in the UK it costs £5.99. Now that isnt particularly cheap... . Fair enough it comes with a DVD.. But for just £9.99 a month i can pay for an internet connection and download the stuff myself...

Of particular interest is the fact that PCGamer magazine is now TINY. The number of pages in an issue used to be several hundred. I was baffled when i picked up a copy off the store shelf the other day, and the magazine was SO THIN it was unbelievable!. Well i thought, they must have dropped the price to compensate surely. Hell even just to stay competetive with the cost of an internet connection which gets you the same information and demos on a minute by minute (rather than once every month) basis. But no. Still £5.99 for a small thin magazine, advertising on the front cover 'exclusive' stories id already read 2 weeks earlier onlin e, with some rubbish demos on the front (not one i couldnt get for free online).  

Its like trying to Keep writing letters to each other as a CORE day-to-day form of communication, against competition say from mobile phones (yes i know letters exist, but i mean in the context of day to day arrangements For example, trying to push writing letters as a good way of say, organizing a meal with friends later that week ). Yeah for more formal things (bills etc) they are great as they serve as a written record. But if somebody suggested you voluntarily put down your mobile phone, and write to your friend saying 'fancy a drink later tonight?' , you would laugh in my face. For a start they wouldnt recieve your letter till the information was out of date (i.e. a few days later), and would then have to respond, (another delay). Plus you have your mobile phone right next to you.... An equally viable (and vastly superior alternative). The only reason i can see to have print mags nowadays is nostalgia.

Hell. print out website articles and make your own mag if you like hard copies!