What's New on Gaming?

By Sandy Fe


Nowadays, the gaming business is as large as any renowned establishment. The gaming business has evolved in such a way that gaming magazines are given attention to in many bookstores as well as stores that you wouldn't even expect to find it in.

What's great about it is that despite your lack of knowledge, talents or interest with video games, you can use this game news to your advantage in order to enhance your mind and your gameplay.

To start, take a trip to your local game shop. Game Crazy and Game Stop are two popular gaming stores that regularly carry related magazines (although you may discover that your local game shop carries only one). One of the things that you'll want to do while looking over these magazines is to compare prices of both games and game systems. The Gamer Informer magazine shows no preference, and provides a one to two inch thick critique of the newest stuff out there. Inside this resource, you'll find commentary on the Wii, EA games, the PS3, the Xbox 360, PC games, the PS2, the PSP and the DS system.

As a no holes barred manual to what's hot and what's not, gaming magazines show you how news in the mainstream media affects game production and how it can affect not only your purchase decisions, but the type of games you play as well. It isn't uncommon for a game to experience a rise in sales just from being mentioned in the 5:00 news hour.

You could learn what's happening with new and competitive gaming businesses before investing in their products, however if you dig a little deeper, you can even find out what's influencing the market that you're a part of.

An example would be:

"Today, professional gaming took a giant leap forward. DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading digital service provider and key partners are taking the professional gaming industry to the next level with the creation of a new video gaming professional sports league that will be the standard for the industry and redefine the consumer gaming experience."

Furthermore, you may find the biggest influences in gaming news in terms of international heights

"The British Academy of Film and Television Arts today announced that its 2007 British Academy Video Games Awards will be held on the evening of Tuesday 23 October at Battersea Evolution in London."

For people who are mainly interested in console news:

According to Nintendo, they are planning to improve their Wii development. The president of Nintendo has already ordered last Friday that the lack of Wii game console supply were absurd and promised to increase Wii productions.

And in some events, you can also find something informative that you weren't really looking for from the start:

"Moshi Monsters creator Mind Candy and Habbo Hotel developer Sulake are not likely to float shares anytime soon, preferring to build their respective businesses amongst a flurry of IPO talk and sky-high social valuations."

See all the things you can learn? Imagine how much more information you'll be able to stumble upon when you make a regular subscription for gaming magazines such as GamePro and GameSlice.




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