Don’t you mean purse? No, wait, that’s handbag?

I know it is not a fanny pack… that is where Brits keep their fags.

Oh arse. No wonder this localisation stuff takes so long…

(Localization… word!)

BFN,

fp.

Didn’t realise they meant the cardboard sleeve the magazine was in, if I was a yank I could see for incorrect use of the word Wallet!

Just wanted to say that before everybody else went through the motions…

With regards “Edge” magazine, CartBlanche, every issue I have read has favoured the Microsoft or PC platforms to review a game title when it is a multi-format release.

I have not opened a copy for at least a year, but if the usually well-written articles are now showing bias against Sony as well, I don’t think I’ll bother with it any longer anyway.

I do like the “PlayStation Official Magazine - UK” but the content has got subsequently less & less over the last six months. By the time the “Top 10″ of the month list has taken up the first dozen pages, and the latter five or so have the “must have” titles for the PSP, PS2, & PS3, the “Download of the Month”, “Straight to bargain bin”, “What that”, “Rumour machine” & “Playlist”pages, there are only so many Blu-ray movie advertisements & family-tree of game title characters you can fit before the 110-ish pages are exhausted.

I’m all for regular features, but they are getting very tired & very, well, “samey” month-on-month. The magazine & cover-mounted disc at £5.99 is sounding very expensive now. I wonder what the US magazine costs?

After my current subscription has finished I will go back to buying individual issues when I see something to take my interest, rather than just parting with the cash for the sake of it.

I only took out the subscription to get the Sackboy toy (that arrived five weeks later) & the ‘gift’ of a “Men in Black” Blu-ray movie… and that didn’t arrive; I was sent “Rambo” instead.

After two months of trying to explain the problem to Future Publishing’s customer service team, & finally being told that I would have to send back both the Sackboy toy & the Blu-ray disc in order to get back the (same?) toy & the correct movie, I just didn’t bother responding.

There’s nothing like good customer service, etc.

I still do like hard copy magazines… especially when a need a little “me time” in the smallest room of the house (unless you are Chad Kroeger & his “Rockstar” lifestyle) but unless the publishers try to keep up & compete with digital information deliveries (or “overload”, if you prefer) then I’d sooner the paper was used more constructively as another product in the bathroom.

I guess I could always “Remote Play” to my PS3 with my (single) handheld PSP. Hmmm… there’s a thought…

BFN,

fp.

What the heck, great service to your “faithfull” subscrivers Future Publishing!…

Used to flick through the single format mags & nab the demo discs tho, back in the day, when I worked @Eb/Game *Sigh* got memorys of some sweet swag…
I shall pass through my local WHSmiths and have a oggle @ the cover & a sly read of the review. Theres usually one cracked open.

“but now it just seems so pointless when everything is on the Store.”

As unimaginable as it might be in this day and age, there are still people without internet connections, or without broadband who rely on these for their demos.

While I’m not one of them, long may it continue.