Retro Gaming Australia

The folks behind the lovely Retro Gamer magazine have just released another “Bookazine” compilation – their 7th to date.

Retro Gamer Bookazines are essentially best-ofs, featuring 228 pages of content selected from numerous recent issues. The latest volume includes Making of features on Computer Space, Tetris, Double Dragon, Final Fantasy VII, Maniac Mansion and Sonic the Hedgehog, Collectors Guides for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Game Gear, and other features like 100 Classic Gaming Moments and Inside the Atari 2600.

You can order Retro Gamer Bookazine #7 from Imagine Publishing for £9.99

Nintendo Power was once the go-to guide for all the latest happenings on Nintendo systems for North American readers. However, a source from within Future Publishing US has revealed that it will cease publication of the magazine, which has been in production for 24 years.

Speaking with ArsTechnia, the source revealed that it was Nintendo who initiated the break up. Nintendo had handled the publishing of Nintendo Power internally until the end of 2007, until the publication was outsourced to Future. The source also suggested that Nintendo was “difficult to work with,” and was uninterested in renewing that contract, going digital or bringing the title back in-house.

No news on when that final issue will hit, though the editorial staff have suggested that something big is planned for the final issue.

Source: ArsTechnia

Everybody loves Retro Gamer, because it’s a stonking good read. Every year or so, the lads that run the magazine cherry pick the best articles from the last 12 issues and compile them in these volumes (which they call “bookazines” – nobody’s perfect) and sell them for a pittance.

Well, the fifth of these collections has just been released in the UK. For £9.99, you get 258 pages of the best content from the last 12 months of RG, including The Making of Strider, The History of Tomb Raider, articles on favourites such as Shenmue and Super Metroid along with in-depth interviews with the likes of Geoff Crammond (Grand Prix) and David Crane (Pitfall!).

If you live in Ol’ Blighty, you can pick it up from WH Smiths and Barnes & Noble. Everyone else should be able to order it online through Imagine Publishing.