Games for Windows - The Official Magazine

I refuse to believe this magazine existed, this is just cursed

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For a magazine from 2007-2008 it's interesting how dated and 90s these covers feel. Like who the hell was still saying "frag" when Bioshock was coming out?

Orange Box? Left 4 Dead? These aren't even GFWL titles, come on guys

Edit: Link to archived .pdfs if you're morbidly curious https://archive.org/details/games-for-windows-2-jan.-2007/07_Games_for_Windows_007_Jun_07/

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Even though it’s the slop equivalent of its time I have so much nostalgia for these gaming magazines omg my 14 year old self used to get so excited when I saw a new EGM in the mailbox
- That and PC Gaming (for a while) for me. I'd always look forward to every issue that came. Now, "can't I just find that stuff online?".
  Why is everything here making me feel like a boring adult
- At least gaming magazines weren't pipelines into becoming a nazi
RADEON DX10 GRAPHICS CARDS
This is making me nostalgic for a time that really wasn't so great, like today's "AAA in an established franchise" or "indie whatever" with nothing in-between is surely worse though
https://www.pcgamer.com/remembering-gfw-radio-the-podcast-that-changed-how-we-talk-about-games-forever/
Ah you're making me remember finding shawn elliot in the early aughts and laughing at him clowning on gamers. I'm afraid to look him up and see if he turned out to be a chud or not.
Only sorta related but while GFWL was garbage, Little-Me did find it neat that I could wrack up gamerscore with the same account and achievement list on two different platforms.
- GFWL managed to completely pass me by. For the years it was active I was gaming on my Xbox 360 and I never had a computer with Vista anyway. I did try pirating a copy of the Vista version of Halo 2 hacked to work on DirectX9 but I can't remember if I even got it to run on my PC
I'm confused by SimCity being on the cover, that wasn't released until 2013. Was it really shown off in some form around the same time Bioshock and Crysis were released a full six years earlier?
- The SimCity feature starts here:
  https://archive.org/details/games-for-windows-2-jan.-2007/Games%20For%20Windows%20July%202007/page/58/mode/2up
  Apparently they're talking about this spin-off not made by Maxis I hadn't even heard of:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_Societies
  Edit: This issue also contains a feature on Dwarf Fortress which might be of interest to hexbear users
  https://archive.org/details/games-for-windows-2-jan.-2007/Games%20For%20Windows%20July%202007/page/54/mode/2up

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