Newly uploaded: GamerZines

[Foxhack]

GamerZines was a series of magazines published by Cranberry Publishing in the UK for worldwide distribution, they released them as PDF files. I managed to find a ton of them on the Internet Archive, and other online places, so I've reuploaded them for ease of reading and downloading as single issues to the Internet Archive. There's one listing with several books, all misc. uploads by the publisher.

https://archive.org/details/@foxhack?and[]=subject:"Gamerzines"&sort=titleSorter

Feel free to mirror them here if you want.

Edited December 25, 2023 by Foxhack

[kitsunebi]

I think it was decided at some point not to host digital e-mags here, only scans of print mags.  But you've done the next best thing.  As long as they're somewhere people can access them, it's all good.

[Foxhack]

That's cool, they don't have to be hosted here - but the database will probably need to be updated to add these. These magazines ran for several years and while they were crude in that uniquely 2000s British way, they have a lot of info about games that are just forgotten now.

Hopefully someone will pop up with the missing issues, there's a lot that were just not saved by the wayback archive, or that were corrupt.

[kitsunebi]

I'm not sure if we've got any online magazines in our database, either.  I vaguely recall a discussion about the pros/cons of the possibility of including fanzines and e-zines several years ago, but I can't find it now.

[Foxhack]

4 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

I'm not sure if we've got any online magazines in our database, either.  I vaguely recall a discussion about the pros/cons of the possibility of including fanzines and e-zines several years ago, but I can't find it now.

Well, there's this...

https://www.retromags.com/magazines/usa/walmart-gamecente/

This was released in physical and digital versions. I have a couple of issues of the physical version, and they're slightly different from the digital one released by Walmart. But I haven't seen a physical one since uh, issue 64...

I get not including fanzines, but this (and the GamerZines) have official content straight from the game developers and publishers, so hopefully the staff will reconsider their inclusion here.

Edited December 26, 2023 by Foxhack

[kitsunebi]

Like you just said, that's a print mag (lots of print mags also have digital editions.)  A quick check of eBay shows that it's still being published in print form in present day.