{"id":2630,"date":"2010-05-31T06:32:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2010-05-31T06:32:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:32:26","slug":"videogame-magazines-on-the-cheap-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/05\/31\/videogame-magazines-on-the-cheap-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogame Magazines on the cheap @ Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I ordered my boys <em>Nintendo Power<\/em> when Amazon had a deal for a $9.99 subscription.  The subscription is coming to an end, and I decided not to renewal for the low, low price of $19.99.  Sure the boys love it, and it encourages reading; I just figured I would hold out for a better deal.<\/p>\n<p>Today the deal has arrived.  This morning I noticed a <a href=\"http:\/\/n4g.com\/news\/533355\/video-game-magazine-subscriptions-5-each-at-amazon\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/n4g.com\/news\/533355\/video-game-magazine-subscriptions-5-each-at-amazon', 'N4G article');\" target=\"_blank\">N4G article<\/a> that showed <em>Nintendo Power<\/em> for $5, so I just renewed the boys\u2019 subscription.  There was much rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>For $5 I even picked up <em>PlayStation: The Official Magazine<\/em>.  It has been a while since I subscribed to a videogame magazine.  Call me Captain Obvious; these days videogame magazines are normally just not worth the money, they are not current, they are really more or less a collection of advertisements, the reviews are lacking, and of course there is better, timelier material available on various videogame sites.  Videogame magazines are a relic from the younger days of gaming.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, this $5 for the PlayStation magazine will give me more variety in the bathroom besides <em>National Geographic<\/em>, <em>Racer<\/em>, and whatever magazines my wife happens to have lying around.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I ordered my boys Nintendo Power when Amazon had a deal for a $9.99 subscription. The subscription is coming to an end, and I decided not to renewal for the low, low price of $19.99. Sure the boys love it, and it encourages reading; I just figured I would hold out for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/05\/31\/videogame-magazines-on-the-cheap-amazon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videogame Magazines on the cheap @ Amazon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}