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== Activism ==
* ''Details'' was originally an independently-owned gay activist magazine. It was bought out by Condé Nast and relaunched as ''Vogue'' for straight guys.
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== Automotive ==
* ''Car and Driver'' used to be famous for abusing their position as one of the two biggest automotive magazines in existence to get away with insane and sometimes illegal stunts for the magazine — [http://www.tdiclub.com/articles/Coast2Coast/ locking two writers in a diesel VW Jetta modified for long range driving and driving across the country non-stop without getting out of the car]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20090321115727/http://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/c_d_staff/csaba_csere_the_steering_column/fear_and_loathing_in_a_100_year_el_nino_in_baja_column taking eight sedans to test in Baja California and returning with six after multiple encounters with the Federales, a devastating El Niño season and an errant cow]; and covering [[wikipedia:Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash|the original Cannonball Run cross-country rally]], created by staff editor Brock Yates in protest of the national 55
: Now, though, the pressure to appeal to the advertisers by not condemning anything and giving every car at least a somewhat positive review, not to mention significant tightening of editorial control has neutered the magazine and made it into a shallow, milquetoast version of itself. In 2009, it took a turn for the worse with the replacement of longtime editor-in-chief Csaba Csere with Eddie Alterman, leading to even blander writing and more sophomoric humor (which is really saying something, as the humor was already pretty crude by the end of Csere's tenure). ''Car and Driver'' is still arguably the best '''American''' car magazine, but with major chain bookstores carrying ''Car'' and ''[[Top Gear]] Magazine'' from the United Kingdom, you can really see [[What Could Have Been]].
** Ironically, C&D once ran a small article decrying rival mag ''MPH'''s infatuation with excessive references to one's posterior. ''MPH'' originally had Alterman as editor-in-chief.
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== [[Comedy]] ==
* ''[[Mad]]'' has been decaying for so long that it's become a [[Running Gag]] at the magazine. In their 400th issue, they joked, "The second issue of Mad goes on sale on December 9, 1952. On December 11, the first-ever letter complaining that Mad 'just isn't as funny and original like it used to be' arrives.". Another joke claims that ''MAD'' [[Nostalgia Filter|was best when you first started reading it]], and if you never liked it, then it was best ''just before'' you first started reading it. Signs of ''actual'' decay, however, would include its budget cutback in the late '00s, forcing it to dump its two sister mags (''MAD Kids'' and ''MAD Classics'') and, for a time, switch from a monthly format to quarterly (currently it's bimonthly). At the [[Turn of the Millennium]] it started running real ads and publishing articles plugging other people's
* After years of being a more or less open copycat of ''Mad'', ''[[Cracked]]'' Magazine began to slip greatly. Tabloid owner Dick Kulpa took over the mag and cut pay to the artists and writers, causing longtime contributors such as John Severin to leave, and stuffing the magazine with [[Filler]] out the wazoo. Newer issues were [[Schedule Slip|few and far between]] during Kulpa's tenure. The mag then [[retool]]ed itself with ''Maxim''-esque production values and adult lifestyle humor more akin to ''Spy''. (It says a lot when a mag that was always considered an [[Follow the Leader|inferior]] [[Expy]] of ''Mad'' still manages to decay.) It finally went to an online-only format in 2007, becoming [[Cracked.com|the website that it is best known as today]].
** The website incarnation, meanwhile, began as a [[Something Awful]] clone with lists such as "The 9 Most Hilarious <adjective> <nouns> of All Time". Then they seemed to realize that there wasn't much setting their site apart from every other satire site on the web, so they [[Author's Saving Throw|decided to go "intellectual"]] and picked up David Wong as editor. To everyone's surprise, it actually ''worked''. While lists still make up a large chunk of its content, it has since added videos, web shows and non-list articles to its repertoire.
*** And now has decided to start catering to the political left and internet SJW culture, often entirely forgoing any attempts at humor for articles that openly compare the Men's Rights Movement directly to [[Godwin's Law|Nazis]].
* Arguably, ''Puck'' (roughly, the more political, 19th Century precursor to ''[[Mad]]'') after [[Author Existence Failure|creator and main artist Joseph Keppler died in 1894]] and was replaced by [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|his son, Udo]]. The actual decay took some time, as between the elder Keppler’s death and the turn of the century, some of the magazine’s most famous and enduring cartoons were produced.
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* A good portion of the [[Silver Age]] Marvel heroes started in other books. ''Tales of Suspense'', ''Journey Into Mystery'', ''Strange Tales'' and ''Tales to Astonish'' became books for [[Iron Man]], [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]], [[Doctor Strange]] and the [[Incredible Hulk]], respectively. None of these are running anymore, although ''Strange Tales'' has been converted to an indie anthology mini-series.
* Now that [[Writing for the Trade]] is standard operating procedure, "mainstream" [[Comic Books]] have turned into vehicles for shilling the graphic novels. Phil and Kaja Foglio came right out and said this when they converted ''[[Girl Genius]]'' into a [[Web Comic]].
** Though of course it's a mileage variance on whether this is "decay", since writing for the trade results in slightly more focused, concise storylines as opposed to the old tradition of ending practically every issue with a character looking shocked and a tiny text box reading "Next issue... MORE CLIFFHANGERS!" (With the real answer being that it depends on how well either story style is written.)
== Dolls ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''SET'' was the most popular movie magazine in Brazil. It was common to see articles done with set visits and exclusive interviews. The magazine was accused of decaying in the last few years for various
* ''[[Star Wars]] Insider'' used to have interesting articles that really were considered to be "insider"
* Less well-known is ''Star Wars Galaxy Magazine'', which hit this trope with record speed. When it premiered in 1995, the magazine focused on a variety of aspects of the ''Star Wars''
== Girls' Interest ==
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* Most of the earliest ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' readers remember it as the magazine that covered ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[The X-Files]]'', since they brought the magazine the most success (along with ''Star Wars'' stories as [[The Nineties]] wore on). But it also stood out from other entertainment industry-focused weekly mags (like ''People'' and ''US Weekly'') with its in-depth coverage of movies and TV, treating celebrities as real people/artists rather than gossip fodder, and nurtured under-appreciated hits, like ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' and ''[[The Wire]]''. But since 2008's major administration change, the magazine has gotten a bit wonky. With the decline of printed media, ''EW'' has focused much more on their web content, and the mag's usual depth diminished as a result. Compare a 1990s issue to a recent one, and the difference is noticeable. The TV coverage is mostly limited to longtime TV writer Ken Tucker, for instance. The coup de grace to many longtime readers, which coincided with the 2008 changeover, was an infatuation with ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', presumably to attract its fanbase into purchasing the magazine. While their borderline manic coverage has toned down since 2010, the multiple covers and articles turned off non-fans before then (in the second half of '09, covers seemed to alternate between ''Twilight'' and [[Michael Jackson]] retrospectives).
* ''US Weekly'' has spent so long being the trashy tabloid we all know and loathe that few remember that it actually used to be a pretty good monthly entertainment magazine called ''Us''. By the end of [[The Nineties]], however, decay set in as they switched to pure cheap celebrity gossip and photos, then became a weekly. Currently it's "''Teen Mom'': The Magazine", with someone who appeared on the show getting the cover spot every single week. Not only is it annoying, but it sets a bad example for teenagers.
* [http://snarkweighsin.blog-city.com/sowspoof.htm This blog post]{{Dead link}} complains that ''[[Soap Opera]] Weekly'' devoted most of its cover that week to ''[[American Idol]]'', which is '''not''' (despite the cover) a soap. Or maybe it
* The UK's ''Heat'' magazine started out as the closest thing Britain had to ''Us'', but then EMAP decided that in a magazine landscape filled with stuff about the soaps, fashion, gossip, and body Fascism what the people wanted was... another mag filled with stuff about the soaps, fashion, gossip, and body Fascism. [[Viewers are Morons|Unfortunately, they were right.]]
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== Men's Interest ==
* ''Penthouse'' was more or less ''[[Playboy]]'' with a racier
* Speaking of which, ''[[Playboy]]'' once held as much of a sense of sophistication as it was possible for a magazine featuring naked women. It was once genuinely possible to say "I only read ''Playboy'' [[I Read It for the Articles|for the articles]]" and be dead serious. It's really quite astonishing to see some of the articles Playboy ran in the 1960s and '70s — interviews with [[Jimmy Carter]], Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Speer, and Vladimr Nabokov; short stories by John Updike, [[Philip Roth]] and [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] - basically, half the great American writers of the late 20th Century. But with "men's interest" magazines cluttering every single magazine shelf in stores, even the ones that won't hawk full nudity, ''Playboy'' has tried to compete by simply turning into a ''Maxim'' clone where the girls actually show their nipples. And the damnedest thing about it is that, even though they're now trashier than ever, they actually show ''less'' naked women than they used to.
** The Brazilian version is accused of decay for both "less naked women" and "more pseudo-celebrities" (about four ''[[Big Brother]]'' contestants a year!), not to mention "questionable cover choices" (a surfer that some compared to Gerard Depardieu, and a writer which had a nice pictorial... [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YSfsaz6CVQ8/SwqrL24vn2I/AAAAAAAAAdE/X5Yp7ACpvkY/s1600/fernanda_young_playboy.jpg except for the model, of course] (image is SFW).
** Playboy has now completed its decay into an almost literal Maxim clone, with the announcement that it will stop featuring nudes. That's right... Playboy will no longer feature images of naked women, but merely "provocatively posed" ones.
* ''Giant'' started out as a men's magazine which, unlike the rest of its ilk, was presented intelligently, featuring interesting articles (one of its staff writers was Kevin Allison of ''[[The State]]'') and good interviews, including one where rock musician [[Beck (musician)|Beck]] announced the existence of his then-upcoming album ''Guero''. Then in 2006, it was bought by the former editor of a hip-hop magazine, who essentially turned it into an urban ''Maxim''... but not before he fired all of its writers and canceled all subscriptions.
* ''Esquire'' and ''GQ''. ''Esquire'' was once a monthly digest that consisted mostly of short stories, features and interviews from some of the top writers of the time (including Gordon Lish, William F. Buckley, Truman Capote, etc.). ''GQ'' was a fashion magazine for the men's clothing trade, and was aimed at wholesale buyers and retail sellers. In 1979, Conde Nast acquired ''GQ'' and subsequently turned it into a general men's interest magazine to compete with ''Esquire'', and ever since then, the two publications have mostly become carbon-copies of each
== [[Music]] ==
* ''Rolling Stone'' has done this several times over the course of its run. It began in 1967 as a rock version of older genre-specific music magazines (such as ''Down Beat'' and ''Sing Out''), with some pretensions toward being a hippie version of ''Newsweek''.
* ''The Source'' can be called the ''GamePro'' of hip-hop. There was a time when it had journalistic integrity in its articles and
* ''VIBE'' magazine kinda got this hard when the new editor took over in the late 1990s. Then readers started seeing non-urban artists like [[No Doubt]] appearing on the cover, which is likely the magazine's attempt at avoiding [[Pop Culture Isolation]].
* After a regime change in 1996, ''Sassy'', a teen magazine that had come to cater to female fans of indie rock music, became a bimbo teen-girl mag in the vein of ''Seventeen''. Naturally, it failed pretty quickly with the audience it had before, and it was gone within a year.
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: On the whole, they have managed to maintain themselves as more alternative than ''Kerrang!'' and good bands are still found in it (although often not without some searching), but most former fans will say it's heading the same way, and it has largely been abandoned by its original audience and is a joke to much of the wider metal community.
* ''RAW'' was a British rock magazine launched in the late-1980s by some former ''Kerrang!'' writers who wished to explore areas of rock music beyond pure Metal; it lasted about a year before it was bought by the large publisher EMAP. Soon after, EMAP went on to buy ''Kerrang!'' itself and the decline of ''RAW'' was complete by the mid-1990s, as it was relaunched to capitalise on the [[Britpop]] boom. Having completely alienated its existing readership and totally failed to attract the Britpop crowd it was hoping for, the magazine was quietly closed after a handful of Britpop-orientated issues.
* Zig-zagged to Hell and back with ''Country Weekly''. They started out in 1994 with news on the industry, reviews of new albums, full-page bios on new and existing artists alike, dancing instructions, a reprint of that week's ''Billboard'' country singles and albums charts, puzzles and lists of upcoming concert performances. Many of the not-news features have come and gone over
: For a while, they had a three-page gossip section and articles on the stars' beauty tips, but lately the mag has shifted back to being more focused on industry news and album reviews, with minimal gossip, bias or sensationalism. They also have gotten progressively ''better'' at covering obscure and/or indie artists, although some may debate the inclusion of recipes in every issue.
* ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' magazine started out as a magazine featuring backstage news on the show and the latest chart stars. Slowly, even before the show was canceled it started featuring more TV shows, fashion, and real-life stories. You can hardly tell it apart from all the other preteen magazines that surround it on the shelf.
* The country music magazines ''Country Music'' and ''Music City News'' decayed not because they stuck primarily to their original purpose (intelligent news and commentary about country music, frank album reviews, and such) but because it skewed in later years to older audiences who did not accept many of the younger
== News ==
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** In a fictional example, on ''[[30 Rock]]'', Jack Donaghy once commented that ''Jet'' was originally a magazine for airplane owners, and wonders how the editors could have made that drastic a change.
* ''Newsweek'', once situated just behind ''Time'' as one of America's most respected newsmagazines, has fallen far from its once-lofty perch, causing detractors to nickname it "News''weak''". The decay began once the Washington Post Company (which owned ''Newsweek'' from 1961 until 2010) bought ''[http://www.slate.com/ Slate]'' from Microsoft in 2004, with staff writers like Daniel Gross and Dahlia Lithwick brought over from the site and the magazine starting to take on its style. Coverage drastically shifted away from firsthand and secondhand information gathering and towards opinion pieces, prompting one letter in the Feedback column to ask, "Where's the news?"
: After a few years of rapidly shrinking circulation, combined with growing indifference for news magazines in general, ''Newsweek'' was sold to the 90-year-old founder of a speaker company, who paid a pittance of $1 plus debt for the title. Soon after, it merged with ''The Daily Beast'', the current pet project of bouncer-around and failed CNBC talk show host Tina Brown, which is considered [[
: Since then, it's devoted covers to stuff like the trashy erotica novel ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey]]'', [[Fan Service]]-y pictures of [[Sarah Palin]] in [http://www.yenra.com/wiki/images/Sarah-palin-newsweek-cover.jpg form-fitting workout gear], and sensationalistic headlines asking [https://web.archive.org/web/20120525105458/http://www.akawilliam.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/newsweek_racist_baby-226x300.jpg "is your baby racist?"] They've also run [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430084711/http://www.newsweek.com/id/236999 an inflammatory article] claiming that openly gay actors like [[Will and Grace|Sean Hayes]] and [[Glee|Jonathan Groff]] come off as self-hating, artificial and too gay in straight roles, which sparked massive backlash from Ryan Murphy, [[Kristin Chenoweth]] and other supporters of the LGBT community.
** The
* ''[http://www.listener.co.nz The New Zealand Listener]'', since Pamela Stirling took over as editor in 2004. Its focus on serious current affairs was diluted in favour of an increased consumerist-lifestyle approach.
== Politics ==
* ''Maclean's'' is roughly the Canadian equivalent of ''Time'', and while it's always had a fairly prominent editorial board, it was seldom overt in its politics. Accompanied with a questionable aesthetic makeover (very quickly dropped after many reader complaints) were fairly sensationalist headlines and some genuinely controversial articles from a source that simply wasn't known for it. Its treatment of Stockwell Day practically finished any respect a lot of Western Canadians had for it.
* [[Time Magazine|''Time'' magazine]]. As recently as the 1980s it was primarily politics and current events (with one section covering entertainment in a similarly thoughtful manner) -- and arguably superior to ''[[The Economist]]'' in its heyday. While politics is still a big focus, celebrity gossip with sensationalist headlines is also featured now, along with fluffy media reviews and whatnot. ''[[The Onion]]'' skewered the dumbing-down of ''Time'' in their video feature [https://web.archive.org/web/20161122032309/http://www.theonion.com/video/time-announces-new-version-of-magazine-aimed-at-ad
** ''Time'''s annual Person of the Year award could be said to have undergone its own form of decay. The award was not originally meant as an honor, but was given to the person whom the magazine deemed to have had the most influence on that year's events, for good or for
** ''Time'' '''artificially darkened''' the mugshot photo of OJ Simpson to make him seems scarier and were called out on it. [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] declared it the day Print Media "[[Jumped the Shark]]".
** They also lost credibility after they published their (in)famous cover story "51%" (% of American women who aren't married), claiming it was the death of marriage now that the majority of women are choosing to remain single.
* The Brazilian equivalent of ''Time'', ''Veja''. They used to be a standpoint of good journalism, specially as they started the same year the military dictatorship got stronger and censored the magazine copiously for about 15 years. But in the 2000s it started being tarnished by both a right-wing political bias and questionable cover choices (which were at times done to avoid subjects they didn't want to talk about). Add that in 2012 the editors and journalists were accused of suffering influence by a convicted lobbyist...
== Pop Culture ==
* ''Radar'' magazine was intended to be a title about a smart and sarcastic look at pop culture when it launched in 2005. It attained that goal, but very few subscribers and newsstand purchases beyond the hip Manhattan and DUMBO fringe. Three issues later it was gone, then relaunched a year later with a different look but the same focus. This version did much better and attained accolades, but the economic meltdown doomed it from building any momentum, and thus petered out in November 2008.
: Then the owners of the ''National Enquirer'' and ''Star'' bought the magazine's ''[[Radar Online]]'' website and were interested in launching a competitor to Perez Hilton, Jezebel, Gawker and the numerous other gossip sites. The result is a site that's now your official and authoritative source to all things celebirty-related, including Octomom, [[Lindsay Lohan]], [[Jon and Kate Plus Eight|Jon and Kate]], non-political coverage of [[Sarah Palin]], everything regarding [[Mel Gibson]] and his feud with his former girlfriend, and tons of random and pointless paparazzi footage.<ref>though they do occasionally cover non-celebrity stories, such as the Trayvon-Martin shooting and the 2012 Afghani civilian massacre</ref>
== Professional Wrestling ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine, the official mag of ''[[Dungeons
: After [[Wizards of the Coast]] bought out TSR, they contracted the writing of ''Dragon'' and its sister ''Dungeon'' to another company, Paizo. Around the time the new edition of ''D&D'' was announced, Wizards ended their contract with Paizo and relaunched the two magazines as online-only, as it exists right now. Paizo launched their own magazine, ''Pathfinder'', which has everything they used to put in the other two magazines.
* ''White Dwarf'', the magazine dedicated to the tabletop battle games ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer
: Even then, the decay proper didn't set in until Guy Haley left as editor. Soon after that, ''White Dwarf'' became a glorified catalog with even the editorial pieces previously used for a bit of humorous commentary given over to telling you what the new releases this month were (in case you missed the ten solid pages of them). Not only has the magazine become increasingly content-free, but it's actually been getting much slimmer, so the number of pages given over to advertising the latest shinies increases even while the total number of pages decreases. It's like magazine decay ''squared''. Oh, and the price has been going up all the while.
: In its defense, though, the cover does read "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Games Workshop's Monthly Hobby Supplement and Miniatures Catalogue]]". It also seems to be improving with the recent ''[[Tank Goodness|Spearhead]]'' expansion.
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* The [[ZX Spectrum]] magazine ''Your Spectrum'' was once a magazine discussing all sorts of software and hardware related issues, with type-in listings for every kind of application from games to business programs, and always a subtle undercurrent of subversive humour. When it was renamed and relaunched in 1986 as ''Your Sinclair'' (a change made due to the reports that the replacement for the ZX Spectrum probably wouldn't be called a Spectrum - it was), it became a magazine that occasionally discussed games and spent the rest of the time being completely off the wall (one issue came with a free copy of ''[[Viz]]''!).
: The kicker? Most people think these changes were for the ''better''. The rot set in for good around 1990 when Future Publishing bought the mag and prices started spiralling, page numbers fell, and the system itself was on the wane... although it took a further three years to finally fold, by which time the main discussions in the magazine were about PCs ''emulating'' it!
* From 1993-96, there was a magazine called ''CD-ROM Today'' which shipped with a CD full of demo software. It was one of the only computer magazines to target both Mac and PC users. Come the magazine's last year, it was starting to feel a little tired, so they split it into two magzines - ''[[
** In the early ''MacAddict'' era, they would do "fun" things like Photoshop the entire staff's facial features into a "new" person, video-tape themselves destroying PCs, review children's games with actual children, allow users to write in their own "reasons why the Mac is better than a PC", and include funny stories and pictures in the letters section. They also had a stick-figure mascot named Max who was also used in their ratings system (Freakin' Awesome!, Spiffy!, Yeah, Whatever, and Blech!), and even included a full cartoon page in the back. By 2002, pretty much all of this was gone and literally every page was plain text on white backgrounds, with virtually no humor to be seen; in short, a magazine version of [[Cerebus Syndrome]].
*** And now they should just rename themselves "iLife" and be done with it, since every single article seems to be about the iPhone or iPad. There is very little coverage of actual Mac computers anymore.
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** It's also safe to assume that at least a few gaming magazines bit the dust thanks to the rise of free walkthroughs and previews on the internet. ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' was bought out by another company which [[Executive Meddling|immediately axed all the staff of the magazine]] and canned the title. In 2010, they returned when the original founder of the magazine bought the rights to it back and rehired a bunch of the writers, as well as other respected game journalists.
* ''EGM'' itself was also a victim of this Trope before its cancellation. It began as, essentially, "Famitsu America". However, as advertiser dollars dried up, the magazine employed numerous ''[[Maxim]]''-like gimmicks to keep reader interest that were only tangentially related to video games (such as interviews with [[Goodfellas|Henry Hill]] and various E3 "booth babes" who clearly didn't know how to use the medium they were advertising on their T&A).
** Amusingly, after it was canceled, it was '''replaced''' by ''Maxim''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090808060913/http://wbztv.com/curious/maxim.magazine.subscription.2.1116836.html Without giving subscribers much notice.]
** The magazine also got thinner and thinner over time, although a lot of this was probably the decrease in advertisements. Someone on the interwebs somewhere did a comparison — for some magazines, pagination has ''increased''...but thickness has decreased due to using thinner, cheaper paper.
** Averted in the reincarnation of ''EGM''. It's almost exclusively about gaming, even as it proudly lists "iPhone" and "iPad" as the consoles it covers. To be fair, mobile gaming is getting rather big, so long as ''EGM'' only focuses on the gaming part of it.
* ''[[Game Informer]]'' used to point out games that were bad on their own merits. That is, before 2006...in which the reviewers suddenly began driving [[Bias Steamroller]] and begun to target the "Casual Hating" demographic, not finding any games bad on their own merits, but finding them bad because ''they're casual games''. The review of ''[[
** For that matter, they used to be pretty good about actually playing the games, even delaying the review for ''[[World of Warcraft]] Burning Crusade'' specifically so they can play it more in-depth. Nowadays? You can spot their low-budget reviews/games whose publishers didn't drop enough advertisement money...their ''[[Tales of Legendia]]'' review was practically trashing the game because it wasn't ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' and barely mentioned what it was '''about'''. Their ''[[Halo]]'' reviews also pretty much '''only''' mentioned Multiplayer, or mentioned Single Player for a bit and then spent the rest of the review heaping praise on the Multiplayer.
* Averted by ''Gamefan'', which only had one botched scoring in its long run, they apologized for it, and then they died out due to oversaturation prior to the internet, though when they began adding an anime section there were fears of this. (Which turned out unfounded; the editor personally wanted them in to drum up sales of anime he liked/warn people about those he found terrible.) As costs grew so did the amount of ads, but they tried their damnedest not to lose pages to the ads. Also, they had a comic series which starred the avatars of the reviewers, which caused cries of this when it ended as it put a handful of game refs in sequential order with what they were reviewing. Nifty idea.
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* ''[[Daily Radar]]'', however, is a different story- beginning as an ''IGN'' lookalike for the US market, the site closed, but not before extending the brand to the UK, which remained open. Eventually, the UK site rebranded to ''Games Radar'', and reduced its original content in favour of reprinting content from [[Future Publishing]]'s print portfolio. After Future acquired ''[[Computer and Video Games]]'', it took on the "all reprints" mantle, and GR re-focused to light-hearted features with the odd review to give Future three games sites — CVG in the comprehensive coverage IGN space, jokey Games Radar, and Edge doing industry news. Daily Radar soon re-emerged as an aggregator site for Future's male-oriented online content.
* ''Official Playstation Magazine'' dipped into this briefly, when it started giving increasing coverage to other products. A couple pages of DVD reviews made sense (as the [[PlayStation 2]] was the first DVD player many people owned), but did enough people really use the [[PS 1]]'s music CD playing function to justify a page of album reviews, even if all the albums were by artists whose songs were featured in [[Skate Heaven Is a Place on Earth|skateboard games]] and the like? And two or three for toys, many of them not related to video games? And a page of weird weblinks? And a page or two on general movie news? Luckily, this decay was reversed a few years into the run of the [[PlayStation 2]].
* Online magazines count! ''The Escapist'', best known as the home of ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' and ''[[Unskippable]]'', has gone wildly off-topic lately. The News page (already known to some readers as the "why-is-this-news page") now features many stories about movies and TV shows considered to have geek appeal. They also have two video series by [[Moviebob]], and neither of them is "The Game Overthinker" (which is a Screwattack exclusive for several reasons, [[
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