8. Official Playstation Magazine: Another oversized magazine and another official one. Things have gotten better for OPM over the years. Their layout is a bit more standard and not all over the place like it used to be. Yes, it's one that sells for the demos alone. Don't sell it short. Much like OXM, the reviews are skewed (duh), but well written and informative. Ignoring the opinions and you can still learn what you need to know about a title. They also get a ton of exclusives so they remain as timely as possible in this era of the internet. Grade: Buy it off the shelf
9. Games TM: This is the best gaming magazine in the world today, at least out of the ones written in English. Those of us living in the US need to track it down at specialty bookstores, but even with the insane cover price after import, it's worth every penny. Each issue clocks in with an incredible page count and not a single section is wasted. They fit a TON of information on one page. Their reviews are concise, well done, and look great. Their covers are made paper that almost feels like plastic. They give a large section in the back to the classics that could become a magazine in and of itself. Grade: Subscribe
10. Tips & Tricks: It seems sort of useless to offer strategy and codes in a magazine. That information can be found within days of a games release on the internet. Stuffing an entire magazine full of it doesn't make much sense. The guides are good and it makes for decent reference material if you need something quick. Otherwise, the only useful sections are in the back including Joe Santulli's Collectors Corner and the Japanese view. This was born out of a failed EGM spin-off, EGM 2. They went through a few name changes and ended up here, radically changing their focus a few times. Grade: Leave it on the shelf
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Article comments
1 - Luke Ferguson
Nice, I've been looking for some sort of way to be able to tell what Magazine I should read.
I was told by a person in whom I trust told me something disturbing about Game Informer, a magazine that I currently subscribe to. He told me that this magazine puts a cap on their review scores, that the reviewers are only allowed to give their reviews a score withen a certain range, determined not by the reviewers themselves, but what they think the mass public will think.
I have no way of confirming if this is true or not, this is only what I've been told. The guy Im speaking of said that he was on the IGN boards, and that one of the members posted a link where one of the reviewers spilled the beans about it. The thread in which that took place was supposedly deleted.