GameFan Issue 06 (August 2011)

Thanks for these dablais!

The first 5 issues came out on-time on a bi-monthly schedule, but Issue #6 took eight months to come out. This seems to be due to problems with the advertising revenue. We have an all-new editing team now, led by the new managing editor James Bacon. There are some early signs in this issue that things are a little off. Issue #7 would be put entirely together by three people; Dave Halverson, James Bacon, and art director Rob Duenas. Issues #8 and #9 were digital-only, so I don't know if we will see these surface on a website. 

Highlights From this Issue: This came out in time for E3 2011, and we get a short Best and Worst awards. There's a great interview with developer NG.DEV.TEAM, and one with the legendary American McGee about the new Alice: Madness Returns, and we see the review a bit later this issue. We got reviews of FEAR 3, Dungeon Siege III, BloodRayne Betrayal, Islands of Wakfu, Gatling Gears and Trenched (Iron Brigade). I hate to mention that the 20-degree angled text is back, I find it hard on my eyes to read several big columns of review text like this. The Shadows of the Dammed review is printed in a different orientation, but at least the text isn't angled. This is the first issue with the new GameFan Retro section, complete with its own cover. We get a nice look at Super Star Wars, DecapAttack, Jet Moto, an import Macross game, and the two D&D beat'em ups -- Shadow Over Mystara and Tower of Doom. Its a nice look at retro games from different eras, and I really enjoyed that the page layouts are reminiscent of the way GameFan looked in the early 1990s. I haven't addressed it as much, but all of these issues have had minimal ads, like easily less than 12 pages each. Most issues have been 88 pages, one was over 100-pages, and a few were less than 80-pages. I gladly would take more ads if it meant people could keep their jobs and be able to pay their expenses.

6 hours ago, Areala said:

didn't get paid a cent for any of their work

Thanks, I couldn't find any details about this from previous staff, but I know Halverson has a history of unfortunate events happening around him, but I assumed the staff left because they couldn't get paid again. I didn't know they didn't get paid for work already done, AND were expected to work for free. Thats tough.