The latest ABC magazine circulation figures were released today. The Xbox mags are doing okay. Official Xbox 360 is up to 65,673 from 56,000 while Xbox 360 World stands at 30,296 a 31 percent bring
up in year-on-year figures. Those are both from Future while Imagine Publishing's 360 crept up from 11,369 to 12,017 and X360 risen from the 28,000 mark to 30,179 issues. Uncooked Media's 360 Gamer
is at 12,586. "Future's PlayStation portfolio is looking grim in differentiate," Gamesindustry biz. "with all titles recording a drop in circulation.
Official PlayStation 2 figures are now below 44,200 compared to 76,300 for the period ended in December. Unofficial titles PlayStation World (17,132) PSM3 (24,121) and cheat magazine Powerstation
(15,171) are all down." As for PC mags they're all drink - PC Gamer is at 41,600. PC Zone at 24,400 and PC change at 28,300. Multi-format mags have slumped too since the establishment of the
next-gen consoles: Edge is drink to 30,021 and Games Master is on 47,719. GamesTM has not posted ABCs for this period. Finally. Official Nintendo Magazine is doing 47,925 (a 35% year-on-year go
according to Future). There are no figures from the independent titles. Pretty downbeat really but also predictable. PS2 is slowly fading into its good night while the Official Xbox and Nintendo
magazine are doing decent business - although nowhere near the halycon days of Official PlayStation Magazine in its glory days (in the 200,000s). It'll be interesting to see how the new
all-inclusive Official PlayStation Magazine fares when it posts its first figures - I wish my successive cloud and Assassin's Creed cover features haven't done too much alter. One last thing.
Future has posted ABC figures for its online duo: "Social gaming website GamesRadar attracts 3.25 million unique users a month whilst its companion-site
for hardcore gamers. CVG has some 1.56 million unique users each month." I don't evaluate that Eurogamer or Pocket Gamer are officially audited in this way - would be interesting to compare the big UK games sites. So are you still buying games magazines? And where do you be to go
for your online news fix? Apart from here of cover. gratify say: In request to affix a mention you be to be registered and signed in for Guardian Unlimited
blogs. Interesting. I just posted about forgetting to buy this month's OPS2 magazine which was out today (Rogue Galaxy demo). For Europe. I look to
Eurogamer and here. For Wacky games news. Kotaku and Joystiq. For reviews and previews metacritic. Gamespot and IGN. I do occasionally walk into the
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