Sure magazines were an awesome way to get info, back before 2000. After that it slowly became a cesspool of ads and bought reviews. In fact, print media died for me the day Game Players closed up shop. Game Informer, EGM, Game Player, Xbox, Nintendo Power, all of them are either as biased as FOX news, or so bought and paid for the reviews are "review by numbers" that is about as dull and sickening to read. Even the previews of games are horrible, cause anything they preview is automatically game of the year material, or at least that's how they butter you up to think. I mean, if you want to sit there and base your video game buying by what someone else that is paid to tell you, I hope you don't go to any car lots soon and buy a used car without test driving it first.