PSM Makin' Waves

For the past few issues we've been working extra hard to uncover as much new PS3 info as possible, and it looks like our efforts haven't gone unnoticed. Our stories have been repeated across many of the top internet sites, with most of them (if not all) giving us credit and hopefully turning a few more people onto the magazine.

Our latest issue (November) has reached some subscribers and has been scanned and copied word-for-word onto websites and message forums. I don't really care, personally, so long as proper credit is given.

However, as is expected online (where an increasingly jaded readership is used to sorting through lies and misinformation), some people have doubted our reports. I'd like to take a second to clear that up right now by saying that, unlike other less reputable sources, we don't print a story unless we've gotten solid confirmation on it. We don't sit around and make up stuff just to sound cool, or reprint things that we've only heard second- or third-hand. We do run some rumors, but we always clearly label them as such.

Botom line: we've been one of the top videogame magazines for 103 issues -- we've got great connections. We're constantly talking to people at Sony and publishers all over the world. We talk directly to the people making the games.

The funniest re-reporting of our latest PS3 story popped up this morning over at spong.com. Since they reprinted our story, I figured it would be okay to copy-and-paste the first part of theirs:

"SPOnG would never say that magazines just make things up, hiding in the accountability void afforded by the antiquated media of print and miniscule readerships. We also have to socialise with our print press colleagues and pretend to like them as they pretend to like us*. So it’s better to keep things smooth…"

Um, reprinting information that you question the validity of probably isn't the best way to showcase your higher journalistic standards. You're welcome for today's top story, by the way.

Anyways, I guess it's always nice to be noticed :)

--Chris