The writing was uninspired, the articles were too short, the content only materialized on these forums through links, and worst of all, none of it was new or interesting.
The page layout was an improvement over "BLOK Magazine"s eye-straining backgrounds and micro-font yet huge areas of empty space and seemingly random placement of items on the sparsely populated pages reduce the overall visual appeal. A more structured, consistent layout would be great (but break it up occasionally with exciting images and quips).
Ultimately there is one fatal flaw in the whole ordeal, you are trying to regurgitate the news generated by an inclusive community upon itself. Unless you manage to gain exclusive content in advance of it's public release your articles are nothing but "spin" on old news.
The magazines you are trying to emulate are based on a model of bringing a wide variety of content, some of it exclusive, to a broad audience. They bring you news about games and events that are soon to occur, not events that occurred yesterday or a month ago.
I understand that it's cool to be the creator of something, to have a little project to be
the boss of, but there are more productive ways to spend your time.
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