My only request for the live RFN is that it takes place at a time that would also accommodate the listeners in the UK. By which I mean, early enough that I won't have to stay up through the night to hear it. That's all.
In the meantime, thanks for another enjoyable episode. Good to hear Lindy's voice again, and the Listener Mail questions were superb.
The relevance of gaming magazines is really quite a tricky one. I subscribe to the Official Nintendo Magazine over here, and on more than one occasion, I've questioned why I still do. Partly because of the magazine itself; it has clean design and interesting features, but understandably, it has a broad demographic in its readership, so the writing style tends to be quite chatty and informal, which isn't generally my cup of tea. But as you discussed, if you are looking for news, in the age of the world wide web, magazines do not cut it, unless they have some world exclusive information, which is sometimes the case (in fact, in the latest issue of ONM, there was a set of 3DS previews with a lot of info I hadn't seen elsewhere, as well as the Sonic Colours review that Greg briefly mentioned).
I suppose the presentation does play a large role in the appeal of magazines over websites. It is nice to flick through pages and perhaps something will catch your eye - IIRC, this was how I came to learn of niche games like Chibi-Robo and Soul Bubbles. ONM also likes to show big screenshots with annotations all over them to explain stuff like interface quirks, another thing you don't often see in internet coverage.
Ah, what would I do without this show?
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