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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pramas" data-source="post: 1202686" data-attributes="member: 995">I agree. It was by reading Dragon as a 12 year old AD&D fan that I got exposed to all sorts of other games, especially from the review section. I was sad when the reviews got axed.Now that said, there is a reason that nearly every general interest gaming mag has gone out of business or become a house organ. The number of gamers who want to read about a wide variety of games is sadly very small. There's a prevalent attitude that any section of a magazine that can't be immediately put to use is "wasted space". That's why the industry landscape is littered with the corpses of magazines, from Space Gamer to Shadis to White Wolf Magazine to the Familiar to Arcane to Adventures Unlimited to the Last Province and on and on. Even d20 focused publications have had it tough. Campaign is "on hiatus" (ie dead), Gaming Frontiers had to be sold to another company to clear its debt, and d20 Weekly lasted less than a year. The only real survivors are Pyramid (and it survived by going online only and having the SJG fanbase to back it up) and Valkyrie, which is pretty good but irregularly published. Then there's the EN World Player's Journal, which is both new and d20 focused (so not really a general interest magazine per se).</blockquote>