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The Last of a Dying Breed

Added: 29.12.2014 6:10 | 3 views | 0 comments

Wastelander75 writes: "Are Professional Gaming News Sites Even Necessary, or Relevant Anymore? Phonograph cylinders. Vinyl records. Time marched on. 8 track tapes, a spindle of magnetic, plastic stripping tucked inside. Time marched on. Cassette tapes. Smaller, able to contain more music, popular during the 1980s. And yet not immutably so. Because even these were replaced by more modern technologies. Compact Discs. Digital Downloads. Every invention, every innovation, eventually rendered obsolete. As time wears on and people adapt to changing times and technologies, the same could be said about our intake of information from the internet. Over a decade ago, the only real way to find information about gaming came from magazines like GameInformer, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Nintendo Power, et al. But as the internet slowly gained traction in just about every home on the planet, two out of the three listed magazines are no longer in print."