Dudley wrote:
Buy TPCG. It's a better mag anyway, £2 cheaper, doesn't have a disk to throw away and contains things written by the excellent Craig "CG" Grannell.
Er, sort of. It looks like I might have been dropped after the current issue, due to wanting to cover retro games that are too obscure. (One might actually argue that I wasn't keen on covering stuff the editor was more interested in, however, because my most recent list for the next six issues included the likes of the decidedly non-obscure original Driver, Lemmings, Wolfenstein and Diablo II, along with more leftfield titles like Chip's Challenge, Fury of the Furries, North and South and IT Came from the Desert.) After finally getting hold of the editor after a month of trying, he said to me there "might" be some work for me around issue 11 or 12, which I guess might be the case, but that's also sometimes editor speak for "see ya!"
If that's the case, it's kind of a shame, really, since I enjoyed writing those redux pieces and increasingly tried to do something a bit different (as my Cannon Fodder piece in issue 8 no doubt proved).
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Oh yeah and kudos for Craig for finally bigging up Pandora's Box in the retro section. I loved that game.
It's still fucking excellent, and that's what I really wanted to do with the redux section: one 'blockbuster' for the coverlines, one really great game deserving of an extended article and more attention, and then a cult/obscure title for the single-pager.
Still, if some of you guys have genuinely enjoyed my stuff, feel free to write to the mag and tell them. Reader feedback is pretty rare these days and my experience shows that mags do pay attention to it. Alternatively, wait for issue 10 and write in with a "where the fuck's Craig?" missive! (Then again, maybe whoever's writing for 10 will be Teh Beszt Evar Writa or something.)