If you meant PC Gamer Malaysia then yes, it's just a localised, copy and paste game magazine. Better off spend more on the original magazine. Game axis at least have the effort to make a reviews.

Anyone won something from gameaxis?

Do they provide shipping for the prizes??? Coz im not frm kl.

I want buy gameaxis, yet i didnt found any of these book around store in my area.. i live in cheras nearly pandan indah there. someone know how to get this book from there?

plus i didnt find it in popular book store like Borders in Time Square. >.<

Editorial standards seem to have slip lately.

Just because it's a malaysian games magazine, doesn't mean it has to be inferior to the other multiformat magazines in the market. It's clearly modelled after other mags such as Games tm and Play and yet content wise, it's miles behind. It's been a while since i picked up gameaxis singapore but even our neighbours over the causeway have better content.

The previews section shouldn't be a rehash of press releases from publishers. I actually want proper journalistic criticism rather than some half baked copy paste from a press release. If your previews are really examples of game magazine journalism, then your staff writers should really quit their jobs and go work in advertising. Really... advertorials....

Don't even get me started on the on-line pages. Umm. like WTF? Look, i understand circulation isn't great, but if you're going to print stuff from dodgy mmo publishers then at least have the decency to state "This is a paid for advertorial"

and whoopeee... 11 Pages of anime? Paid for by animax i suppose. Well you have to get your money from somewhere. I guess i'm the idiot for thinking i'm buying a gaming magazine. mofos.

Also to the mofos who sold out most of what was once a decent gaming mag.. Akon and Take That? that's your idea of cool music that will appeal to real gamers? LOL

That's the last RM7 you'll get from me.

/spit

Base on your evaluation of the magazine, Sounds like it's dieing (basicly it is) Kinda sux though. Malaysia in my opinion has potential to produce good work...unfortunately I think there isn't enough money in the industry. Due to the fact that someone who really want's to read a gaming magazine would rather buy a imported mag from the US just because the quality is better(format, type setting, content, Etc) than something that looks cheap and lousy...(Bad layout, looks like it was thrown together by a 14 year old, etc)

I always thought of entering this industry cause I'd love reading PCGAMER from the US (and I still do when I feel like it) but I'm also malaysian, to see how crap the mags are put me off...it's like you wanna marry a malaysian wife but you found out shockingly almost all the women are not up to what you like to see sort to say (not trying to compare but I think you get the idea )

If possible they get thier 'act' and try to follow or even design thier mags slightly closer (or better) to what other countries do. I would definitely buy them.

Just a couple quick comments on your post, Kidicarus.

The Pipevine section (I believe if that's the section you're referring to in your 3rd paragraph) is meant to update readers on upcoming titles. It is by no means your standard 'Previews' section. Normally if we actually have a 'hands on' preview of a yet unreleased title, we would post it as one of our feature stories.

I decided to open up GameAxis and diversify its contents by including an anime section because both anime and videogames have a common demographic and they often cross into each other's realms. For example there are anime series based on videogames (Blue Dragon, Persona -trinity soul-, Tales of the Abyss) and vice versa (Naruto, Bleach).

We have a working relationship with Animax so we regularly feature their content. But if you take note of the section, we usually only feature 2-3 pages of Animax-related shows. Then we have a monthly 2-page section sponsored by Anime Tech. The rest is our own local home grown content.

Anime, music, and movies in videogame or IT magazines aren't new. Play magazine regularly features content about anime and manga. So does Atomic, a more 'hardcore' Australian IT magazine. Komik Gempak has the word 'Komik' in their magazine titles, but they too regularly feature anime, movies, and other stuff. PCGamer Malaysia even regularly features a movie contest page.

Truth be told, most local comic and games magazines in Malaysia diversify their content. They can't depend their income on only one source of revenue since the local market for each segment isn't that strong. But judging from your post, it sounds like you don't like anime. You're free to skip the anime section and concentrate on the remaining 80% of the mag which talks about IT and videogames if the anime section bothers you that much.

Leo3010: I know you're talking about local game magazines in general, but I'd like to state that I'm proud our magazine's layout. Sure we're not EDGE magazine quality, but our page templates have a clean layout and we regularly use highres images. Some magazines blow up low res images, causing them to look extremely pixelated. Worse, their pathed out images can appear crude and amateurish.

I know I'm blowing my own horn here, but as I've said before, I stand by the quality of my magazine's design and layout. I've seen and read other local teen lifestyle magazines which featured games and anime, and I am confident that ours rank high in terms of design. I'm proud of my team; the time and effort that they've put in to make sure that GameAxis' quality doesn't appear subpar or crappy is highly commendable. If you've never read GameAxis before, then I recommend browsing through a copy first before deciding whether it's worth your RM7 or not.

Lim Kuan Keat
Editor
GameAxis Malaysia

Hello ppl!

I need help, anyone here has the GameAxis magazine volume 5 issue 11 (feb 2009)? The one that features Dawn of War 2. I need a picture of the cover page for my assignment purpose but unfortunately my friend forgot to capture a picture of it and I'm not going out to any shopping malls recently to check out the magazines personally. So, those who have the magazine, will you help me by taking a clear picture of the magazine?

I even went to the website but I couldn't find the picture I wanted >.<

Your help is much much appreciated. Thank you

This post has been edited by acidburn711: Feb 16 2009, 08:07 PM

The reason i was outraged enough to complain on these forums is that the feel of the magazine has totally changed since the departure of the previous editor (Blake was it?). Of course, i understand the financial constraints you're experiencing with what i must imagine to be dwindling circulation. But perhaps one of the reasons could be that Gameaxis is no longer relevant at all to the gaming scene in Malaysia. Lets put it this way, it took more than a month before anyone responded to my poorly worded rant in what is probably the most active forum for gamers in Malaysia. Gameaxis was never a perfect magazine (the fact that you published unedited letters from your readers was one of my bigger pet peeves) but it really has gone downhill since then.

I am a hardcore gamer, and through rose tinted glasses, I do remember reading CVG in the 80s and being awed by the graphical prowess of ZX Spectrums and C64s. I am still old fashioned in the sense that i still do want to see pretty screenshots and read intelligent editorials on print.

I actually do read atomic and play regularly, although i prefer their UK equivalents in Custom PC and Games Tm. I've seen the anime and manga spreads in Play, which don't really give the impression of being advertorials. Their reviews still manage to maintain some measure of journalistic integrity. The magazines themselves still manage to retain their core values devoted to hardware and multi format gaming. Take it from an ex-mainstream journalist and hard core gamer, its not that difficult to spot a press release that's been badly disguised as a review/article. And that's what makes me angry.

Your hardware reviews are amateurish, I doubt anyone on these forums has actually relied on the reviews for a purchasing decision. Your benchmarks give absolutely 0 information on the testing methodology. The most useful thing about the reviews is that they often give an indication of what local prices will be like. But otherwise, i have my online tech sites and o'seas magazines for finding out about the latest hardware.

This just leaves me with the games. I will admit that there are some very readable reviews. However, by the time they're out in print, they would have already been out in the market for a while - and the reviews covered online. I understand this is not your fault, that's why there really needs to be a push for better content elsewhere in your mag.

In terms of the layout, the magazine is actually very readable and I would say it's a lot better than a whole lot of other local gaming magazines. Although, having said that, your advertorials for the generic chinese mmos just stand out out from the magazine because they clearly don't fit the house style.

But, I don't buy your magazine because it looks better than the other local magazines. As much as i like pictures of cosplaying young girls, that is also not the reason why I buy your magazine. I buy it because of its localised content (for example the chats with codemasters for grid/dirt are great examples). Juice (free fyi) is a great example of how a magazine on pop sub-culture, can work with original content and supported with ads. IT actually contains articles i want to read/pictures i want to look at.

I know you're not EDGE (I'm assuming you're not talking about the Malaysian business rag), but that isn't really who you should be benchmarking yourself to. Neither should you be benching yourself against other Malaysian mags. You really should be benching yourself internally because you are the only real english language multi-format magazine in Malaysia. I really don't see how you can be proud of your staff because as far as I am concerned, ctrl+c and ctrl+v is not games journalism.

On the bright side, at least you guys aren't as bad as PCGamer M'sia. I suspect the female editor (still?) or one of their sub-eds failed their SPM English - miserably.

This post has been edited by Kidicarus: Feb 17 2009, 04:14 PM

Tonight I'll try scan the cover of the magazine and post it here for your convenience.



Well, you can always email us your concerns and suggestions to improve the mag. I don't always visit the forums (last month was a really busy month for me), and I usually read all readers emails and try to reply as soon as I can.

Personally I've always wanted to edit the letters, though I received suggestions that I should keep the bad spelling and all because it's more "Malaysian". But I'll take your suggestion into consideration in the next issue. The same goes for more localized content in our magazine, though it can be a bit hard to get interviews with local developers since the only major game developer studio in Malaysia is Codemasters while the others are mostly based in Singapore. We mainly do email interviews with international game developers, such as last month's interview with the developers from Relic on Dawn of War II. Both me and the Singapore editor collaborated to submit our questions to Relic, though personally I myself would prefer to do an interview one-on-one since it's more spontaneous and interesting to read compared to a prepared answer.

We have limited space and pages to write about the testing we do for game hardware, so we mainly run the core benchmark tests such as 3DMark06, PCMark05, and Far Cry 2. As per your suggestion, however, we will include a couple pages in our Volt section this month to explain how we test our products.

Lim Kuan Keat
Editor
GameAxis Unwired Malaysia

This post has been edited by Fat Cat Lim: Feb 28 2009, 04:21 PM

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And not to forget, the price is cheaper.

Hey guys, I know it might be a little too late but is it possible that any gracious soul is able to send a copy of the February Issue of the GameAxis (Malaysian edition )to me in Singapore? One of my articles is being published there. And I hope to keep it as part of my collection. I already have the Singapore one, just looking to have the Malaysian edition as well....

All postage fees and the copy of the magazine itself will be paid by me. I'll send the money over by PayPal/Bank Transfer or any other way you deem convenient on your side.

Is anyone willing to help me please? If so, you may be able to contact me at my MSN (verdic_strife@hotmail.com) or e-mail (homarcus@gmail.com).

Your help will be gratefully appreciated!!!

Gameaxis magazine review n preview pretty amazing almost like outsiders mag but their news quite old................ ..............

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Added on May 8, 2009, 10:55 pm

are u kiddin' me.......gameaxis available in many bookstore around malaysia n also can be find not just bookstore only...... .........

This post has been edited by Foxhound88: May 8 2009, 10:55 PM

Quick n short feedback from me to gameaxis:

1. Cover & paper quality too hard (LOL)

2. I'm not a fan of anime, and gamers are not necessary anime fans too; so please remove that section. Those pages can be used more on games. If u want to talk about anime, publish another mag.

3. This is in relation to no.2, can I have RM 3.50 back? Cause half of the magazine goes to anime & unless, boring, uninspiring countless pages of "useful "FREE" online games "information"" Which i bet the players(most not all) that play those "FREE Games" don't even read the magazine.

4. Hardcore review & news on PC gaming hardware is a pleaseant welcome.

5. Some of ur articles / coverage on gaming exhibition are to short. If i want to see alot of pictures, I could go to the internet and find, my reason for reading a gaming mag is to read quality articles & also to give my eyes a rest from the computer screen.

KTHXBYE.

This post has been edited by JuzJoe: May 14 2009, 12:10 PM

lately i kept buying your mag, good job man!

I started to buy GameAxis when I owned a PS 3 because I can't find any local magazine introducing PS 3 games. (is there any than GameAxis?)

I like the Anime introduction part, which is sometimes I will look for some new and interesting Anime. Plus the discount vouchers in the Anime part, attracting me as well.

Anyhow, I still think GameAxis need to improve on the game review and preview parts, some is really too short and just like what had been posted as above, copy and paste from original magazine. Personally I would preferred to see any local gamer or GameAxis staff to post their opinion or thought on the game itself, opinion from Malaysian, because sometimes Malaysian will have different game preference compare to Europe or US people.

So far I like the magazine but still have a lot of room to be improved. Please post more PS 3 info as very hard to find any local magazine or should I say low budget magazine talking about PS 3.

[quote=Amras of Nargothrond,Jun 22 2009, 07:21 PM]

"Anyhow, I still think GameAxis need to improve on the game review and preview parts, some is really too short and just like what had been posted as above, copy and paste from original magazine."

Just curious, other than your comment on GameAxis's room for improvement on the editoral content;
how do you find the magazine's current design and layout?

Great? Good? Average? Below Average? Bad?

been buying Game Axis since 2007. Best and cheapest gaming magazine that could be had. But really need to improve on things and have a bit of consistency. I mean like once you introduce a new segment can't they stick with it (e.g. the comic review section) ? And touch up a bit here and there and it should be a good read anytime.

Also like the Preview of what games are coming out soon for what platform, sometimes it hard to distinguish which platform it is for cause the little icons for the NDS, PS3, PSP, Wii, 360 etc. that are highlighted, can't really tell it is for that platform or the other way round. I mean make the layout more understandable and easy on the eyes. Also sometimes must do a bit of spell checking and justify it properly ?

[quote=Strider 11,Jun 24 2009, 05:51 PM]
[quote=Amras of Nargothrond,Jun 22 2009, 07:21 PM]

"Anyhow, I still think GameAxis need to improve on the game review and preview parts, some is really too short and just like what had been posted as above, copy and paste from original magazine."

Just curious, other than your comment on GameAxis's room for improvement on the editoral content;
how do you find the magazine's current design and layout?

Great? Good? Average? Below Average? Bad?

[/quote]


The current design and layout can be rated as Average, but close to Good.
Perhaps should have take PC.Com as reference, sometimes their design and layout really surprise me.

[quote=Amras of Nargothrond,Jul 6 2009, 06:42 PM]

"Perhaps should have take PC.Com as reference, sometimes their design and layout really surprise me."


Based on your comment on PC.COM magazine layout, what do you mean by their layout really
surprise you? I browse through PC.COM occasionally, I found that their gaming section at the back
of the magazine is poorly done. Are you referring to that section?

Regards, thanks for your revert on my previous posting.

[quote=Strider 11,Jul 7 2009, 11:05 AM]
[quote=Amras of Nargothrond,Jul 6 2009, 06:42 PM]

"Perhaps should have take PC.Com as reference, sometimes their design and layout really surprise me."
Based on your comment on PC.COM magazine layout, what do you mean by their layout really
surprise you? I browse through PC.COM occasionally, I found that their gaming section at the back
of the magazine is poorly done. Are you referring to that section?

Regards, thanks for your revert on my previous posting.

[/quote]

I mean is their packaging of their magazine, is quite attracting but of course not every month have special packaging.

Lately the Modern Warfare 2 review, I was hoping to see some introduction on the gameplay or some screenshot on gameplay, because not everybody played Modern Warfare before... but just some art gallery from MW2... Maybe not yet released, so you guys don't have chance to test it out?

Oh, and also no review on sports big games, such as NBA2K10 and NBA Live 10? I was hoping to see these two games review in GameAxis too, to help me decide which one should I buy...

Or GameAxis staff don't like sports game, so no review on these games?