VGC is at present accepting entries this weekend for the Letters web page of our ebook.
Should you missed the information final month, VGC is releasing its first ebook, The 2025 Information to Video Video games, and you may pre-order it now, with VGC Patreon members receiving an unique low cost.
Impressed by basic gaming magazines of the previous, the ebook will characteristic separate Information, Previews and Evaluations sections, and particular cowl artwork by Wil Overton, the much-loved illustrator of numerous iconic British magazines, resembling Tremendous Play and N64 Journal.
As a result of it takes inspiration from magazines, we additionally plan to have a Letters part within the ebook, the place readers can ship us their ideas on any subject in video video games.
Our VGC Patrons got the primary alternative to submit letters for the ebook and now we have house for just some extra, so should you’d like an opportunity to get your identify within the ebook, ship your ‘letter’ (i.e. an electronic mail) to chris.scullion@videogameschronicle.com with the topic header “Ebook Letter”.
Though there’s no set size, we’d counsel longer is best as a result of we will minimize down a protracted letter to suit the web page, however we will’t lengthen a brief one. We really feel quite a bit much less comfy about placing phrases in your mouth than we’re about taking them out!
A disclaimer: as was the case with magazines again within the day, we will’t assure we’ll have the ability to print each letter we obtain, and we will’t promise we received’t be a bit of sarcastic with our reply within the ebook (provided that it’s impressed by the early ’90s period).
Though most will know VGC for its on-line information, a lot of our writers got here from a print background, within the days when sport magazines packed newsagent cabinets, writing for the likes of CVG, Official Nintendo Journal, and PC Zone.
Bodily media is one thing expensive to our hearts, so once we had been introduced with the chance to create a VGC ebook by writer Pen & Sword, naturally, we jumped on the likelihood.
When it releases early subsequent yr, VGC: The 2025 Information to Video Video games will provide a compendium of our greatest work from the yr, introduced as a bodily, hardcover ebook designed to be collected and saved.
We’ll share extra info on VGC: The 2025 Information to Video Video games nearer to its launch, which is at present scheduled for February 2025.
For now, nonetheless, you possibly can pre-order the ebook at its writer Pen & Sword Books, or from different on-line ebook sellers together with Amazon UK and Amazon US. Extra retailers will add the ebook as the discharge nears.
