"MASSIVE GAMER ADDRESSES A UNIQUE VOID IN THE PRINT MEDIA SPACE"
A magazine publisher has decided to make a magazine especially for MMO game players. A print-based magazine for the most online and connected people in the world. Voids are often there for a reason.
Massive Gamer Magazine Unleashes First Issue
New Monthly Periodical Exclusively Covers Massively Multiplayer Online PC Games
ST LOUIS, MO — July 22nd, 2008 – A seismic shock has impacted the world of editorial media covering interactive entertainment. Massive Gamer, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of Massive Gamer magazine, a monthly print publication focusing exclusively on massively multiplayer games for the PC. As the multi-billion massively multiplayer (MMOG) business continues to grow and become a part of mainstream popular entertainment, Massive Gamer aims to reflect the breadth and depth of the MMOG development, business and culture as no other website and print publication has ever done before.
The first issue of Massive Gamer magazine (August 2008) is available at newsstands for the cover price of $6.99, and online for subscription at the low introductory rate of $24.99.
Weighing in at 88 pages, the first issue of Massive Gamer magazine highlights Funcom’s popular Age of Conan MMOG on the cover, and features articles delving into Cryptic Studio’s Champions Online, Turbine Inc’s. Lord of the Rings: Mines of Moria expansion, EA/Mythic’s Warhammer update, and much more.
Regular columns will include letters from the editor, staff editorials, a calendar of upcoming game releases and industry events, as well as MMOG launches, guild features, serialized fiction, news from the business world, and more.
“Massive Gamer addresses a unique void in the print media space, when it comes to editorially covering massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds. MMOG players have their own jargon, their own community, and their own informational needs that a one-size-fits-all publication cannot completely fill nor understand,” says Jodie McIntyre, CEO and Founder of Massive Gamer, Inc. “This publication will also be unique because we will look at more than the largest and most popular MMOGs. The MMOG development community is filled with innovators and entrepreneurs from around the world – and we cannot wait to share many of their stories with our audience.”
Massive Gamer magazine will be accompanied by a website launch, featuring fresh MMOG industry news and community feedback. The website and information about the magazine can be found at http://www.massivegamer.com. A bi-weekly newsletter will offer opt-in subscribers the chance to have the latest happenings in the world of MMOGs and Massive Gamer delivered to their e-mail inboxes.
Inside Massive Gamer magazine Issue #1:
Cover Features
Age of Conan: Hype vs. Hope
By the Massive Gamer teamDC Universe Online: Super-Batty Goodness!
By Linda “Brasse” CarlsonLife at Level 80 in Age of Conan
By Ryan “Volt” SutherlandFractured Planes
By Christine RafeFeatures
Age of Conan
Conqueror Class Review
By Pike “Ithkrul” PullenGuardian Class Review
By Chad “Clams” MochaDemonologist Class Review
By Ron “Zeckle” HuntTempest of Set Class Review
By Lynn “Cesara” KraczekCryptic Studios
Champions Online: From PnP to MMOG
By Linda “Brasse” CarlsonCartoon Network
Fusion Fall Update
By Paul PhilleoTurbine
Lord of the Rings: Mines of Moria – The path to Moria is fraught with danger, evil and… mini games?
By Linda “Brasse” CarlsonEA / Mythic
Warhammer Update
By Mike “Exe” DoughterySony Online Entertainment
The Agency: FPS or MMO? If we tell you, we’ll have to kill you.
By Linda “Brasse” CarlsonEverquest II: Living Legacy Program
By Linda “Brasse” CarlsonBlizzard
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Update
By Mike “Exe” DoughertyG4Box
Metin 2: Jam Packed with Content – and it’s FREE!
By Lynn “Cesara” KraczekCCP
Eve Online: The Empyrean Age
By Marcin “DeepNoizer” NowakInsider’s Look
Tales from the Trenches: Community Management
By Linda “Brasse” CarlsonEntropia
By John Bates, Entropia UniverseAbout Massive Gamer, Inc.
Massive Gamer Inc., (http://www.massivegamer.com), is the St. Louis area-based publisher of Massive Gamer magazine, founded by Jodie McIntyre, owner of the respected editorial website MPOGD.com, which covers multiplayer online games.Massive Gamer magazine embodies the ideals of editorial integrity while covering the broad spectrum of massively multiplayer online entertainment on the PC platform. The Massive Gamer magazine staff is diverse, like the industry itself, including talented writers, experienced business veterans, and hardcore gamers.
NEXT MONTH: Slightly different features about all of the same games.
filed in Uncategorized on Jul.28, 2008
July 28th, 2008 on 12:40 pm
Perhaps they should do one for massive gamers — all the LAN parties I’ve been to have been for the most part populated by fat bastards.
exxuse: The reason you give when your girlfriend finds porn on your computer.
July 28th, 2008 on 1:42 pm
“Voids are often there for a reason.”
Best Zorg quote in years.
July 28th, 2008 on 2:16 pm
Looks like they’ve got the demographic down to a tee. And that’s just the title HURR HURR HURR
July 28th, 2008 on 5:46 pm
I’m a massive gamer. Your mum told me last night.
Think they shud rename the mag…Age of Conan Monthly.
July 28th, 2008 on 8:32 pm
I’m pretty sure there’s already been a MMORPG magazine. I remember reading about it in a Mag Weasel column on GameSetWatch.
July 28th, 2008 on 10:53 pm
Bring back Swillman.
July 29th, 2008 on 12:09 am
There is already a magazine dedicated to this. PC Gamer. This is basically PC gamer minus the FPS games. So it’s about half as interesting as PC Gamer, with the same fanbase. Wow. That’s going to do well.
July 29th, 2008 on 12:11 am
By the way, would not. Goth chicks with tattoos will suck your dick, but then they’ll expect you to suck theirs.
July 29th, 2008 on 3:22 am
What does this have to do with Sega?
July 29th, 2008 on 4:47 am
Ignore AP, he is Swillman
July 29th, 2008 on 2:44 pm
defenestrator,
Outrun Europa was released by SEGA in 1991 for the SEGA master system. It was the third game in the OutRun series, which revolutionised the third-person perspective style of racing games. It was published by U.S. GOLD, a British publishing company based in Birmingham. This post is comedy GOLD. And there’s the link.
July 31st, 2008 on 5:25 am
It all makes sense to me now.
July 31st, 2008 on 1:40 pm
NEXT MONTH: Slightly different features about all of the same games.
…sorry to spoil the party, but doesn’t that sentence apply to this site and all who enjoys its charms?