{"id":831,"date":"2007-03-13T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/13\/cgm-rip\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:41:28","slug":"cgm-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/13\/cgm-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"CGM RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/game-talk\/showthread.php?t=33997\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/game-talk\/showthread.php?t=33997', 'Well it\u2019s official');\">Well it\u2019s official<\/a>.  There really is nothing worth reading in print about computer gaming.  If I subscribed to any gaming publication (I don\u2019t and haven\u2019t for many years) it would have been Computer Games Magazine.  Many of the old timers there grew up on the mean streets of the Usenet forums and went on to write some interesting stuff every now and then.  CGM was the only magazine that I thought was at least trying to make things appealing to the over 20 crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If CGM\u2019s parent company TheGlobe, is the same group from TheGlobe.com, they may be the single most destructive influence in gaming publication that I can remember.  The company destroyed Games Domain and anything else it touched.  But you could see this coming ten or fifteen years ago as the gaming media slowly became too closely aligned with the products they sell and the PR groups that represent them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Thank goodness for independent blogs!  Here I can tell guys like Marc Duffy to go stuff themselves and not feel guilty at all!  hehe<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>Well it\u2019s official. There really is nothing worth reading in print about computer gaming. If I subscribed to any gaming publication (I don\u2019t and haven\u2019t for many years) it would have been Computer Games Magazine. Many of the old timers there grew up on the mean streets of the Usenet forums and went on to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/13\/cgm-rip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CGM RIP<\/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=\"https:\/\/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":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}