Now isnât the best time to be buying into the games mag business. Times are tough. But hey, if youâre not swayed by this harsh reality, Hardcore Gamer are for sale. And for only $42,000!
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Not sure you should bother, though, as crassly, when settling on a sales pitch, Double Jump havenât exactly chosen to extol the virtues of the magazineâs contribution to the medium. Instead, theyâre flogging it off as a swag-n-junket extravaganza.
Want your own video game magazine and have all the big game companies beg you to cover their latest games before theyâre released? Want to be wined and dined by Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Rockstar, Capcom, and Konami, to name a few? Want to have your editors flown on all expenses paid press junkets to Japan, the UK and all across the US? Want exclusive-access passes to attend closed, industry-only trade shows, like E3 and GDC? Good luck with that if youâre starting from scratch. Weâve already got what takes years to build right now and it could be yours now instantly.
Enticing, sure, but with a corrupt attitude like that, itâs no wonder theyâre being forced to sell it off in the first place. What is this, 1994? Itâs 2009, that kind of shit just doesnât fly.
Besides, as the EGM shuttering has shown, these days itâs survival of the fittest, not survival of the fattest.
