Gameinformer, the biggest video game magazine, has this section every single week right after reader mail. You may want to check it out, since at least one mag still does it.

@Ed, Whoa, do they? I always resisted subscribing to GI since the GameStop employees always tried to push it on me, but I might just check it out, now. Thanks. 

I think I have the issue where that picture came from. I'll have to search for it later, but I think it's the December/Holiday issue from 1997 when the N64 South Park game was on the cover. That was my first issue of EGM ever, and I am such a massive nerd for remembering this.

@Chris, yes, you are a massive nerd for remembering this. South Park is on the cover, but its from the January 1997 issue of EGM. So close!

When I read this I immediately thought that Bitmob was going to have their own magazine haha. I can't draw, but good luck to those that enter!

@Christian,  you don't have to be able to draw! You can just cut up old magazines and make a collage.

And alas, Bitmob is not putting out a magazine. If only.....

@Ed, you just mentioned what I feel is the ONLY redeeming value in Game Informer.  Try as I might, I just can't read that magazine and consider it an unbiased voice in the market, and so.. for me.. it builds up fail with every turn of the page...

Its circulation ONLY exists because of the Stopper of Games, after all....

@ Alejandro

No prob! There are very talented people sending in some awesome art to Gameinformer.

@Keith

That's not fair. What did Gameinformer do to you that betrayed your trust? They must have done something, other than being a popular magazine. Not trusting something simply becuase it is popular isn't a good reason. As someone who has been reading Gameinformer since the start, listening to their Podcast since episode 1, and meeting 3 of the editors in person, they are great, stand up people who love this industry and everything about it.

I just don't see them doing anything, at all, to jeopardize their journalistic integrity and betray your trust.

@Ed,

I only read the magazine for about two years (2008-10), so I don't have much history to look back on, but... it's just.. just...

Ok.  Change gears.  Let's say Best Buy sold TV's.  It's a stretch, I know.  Let's say Best Buy then came out with a "magazine" about TV's.  News, reports, photos, reviews.  Even some cleverly written verbosity.  And they rated MOST TV's with high marks.  Possibly fair, possibly 20% higher than, say, www.consumerreports.com.  And oh, by the way, they mailed said "magazine" to ALL of their Best Buy Rewards card holders (but nobody else).  For FREE.

Regardless of their editors' best intentions, fantastic writing and charming witticisms, would you consider said magazine to be an unbiased voice in the TV market?  Would you consider their circ numbers to be true and valid?  Why?

When I rec'd Game Informer, I really, truly wanted to read it and enjoy it.  I did.  I love gaming and reading all news and reviews around gaming.  Sadly, skeptical man inside me just kept whispering in my ear (from the inside out, mind you).  Said nasty things.  Said the magazine was not a magazine, it was a big fat sham.  Said I was wasting my time and should be reading a real magazine... one that actually fights for my subscription dollars.  So I re-enlisted with EGM.  :)

Hmm, I do miss the letter-art section. As for the Lara Croft and Dragon Ball Z sketches, if this was the mid 90's you would also be getting pictures of various Street Fighters being torn to bits by MK characters. Which then reminds me of the last Expert Gamer mag that had a bunch of rejected letter art, most infamously the Nazi Mario one.

@Randy, Ahh, the old Street Fighter characters being brutally dismembered by Mortal Kombat pictures -- how could I have forgoten?!

Could you scan the letter-art section of this last issue of Expert Gamer you speak of? I'm intrigued by this Nazi Mario.