Retro Gamer is no more

[gulag picture radio]

Dammit. that awesome UK magazine "Retro Gamer"'s publisher is out of business. Hopefully someone will pick up RG as apparently it was making money. Here are some details:

 

Official Announcement

 

forum talk

 

Awesome magazine - stylish and cool. I really thought that time was right for a slick mag like Retro Gamer to hit newsstands. Guess that I was wrong.

[gulag picture radio]

Crap, I just found that someone posted about this already. Sorry for the oduble post. Here's a link to the discussion:

 

Retro Gamer UK mag AA details

 

Sorry, everybody. Mods, feel free to delete this if you want.

[Flojomojo]

I got a letter from a new publisher who picked up the pieces and the rights to this mag. As a former subscriber, I will get 3 free issues as a gesture of goodwill!

 

This is sweet - I couldn't remember when I renewed, but I feel that there were some undelivered issues remaining. I won't see those again, but this new deal makes up for that. I might just need to subscribe ...

 

I'm away from the letter at the moment, but I believe it's from Future Publishing, the company that does the excellent if pompous Edge magazine.

[Mayhem]

It's actually Imagine Publishing, who were formed about 6 months ago from ex-Paragon and Highbury staff. Indeed the new editor of RG was the guy who did the retro section of GamesTM. Nothing to do with Future at all.