Historical Mag Wargames Illustrated Comes to the Digital Age
December 8, 2013 by dracs
Wargames Illustrated is, perhaps, one of the best wargaming related magazines out there, especially when it comes to historical based gaming. Now this great publication has become available in digital format!
The new Wargames Illustrated App is available across a number of devices, including iPad and Kindle, and brings you a back catalog of publications and gaming tips.
However, it is not simply a digital edition of their monthly magazine. The app also gives you access to things like videos and miniature galleries.
In essence this new digital format will provide you with some great content to both enjoy and enhance your own gaming with.
Do any of you read Wargames Illustrated?
Every month when WI is issued I always spend the first 10-15 minutes just looking at the great pictures. It’s like soft porn for war gamers.
I do the same m8 just can not keep away from that flames of war porn It’s going to make my me blind I just know it 🙁
im hoping that they’ll let you subscribe through it or even current subscriber’s get a discount on the digital edition
At the moment, subscriptions for print are handled totally separate from the digital ones. I imagine they’d be open to changing that if they get enough feedback requesting it. I think it was probably enough work for them to just get the app working, and then transitioning their editorial workflow to produce output for both print and digital. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were service improvements still coming down the line once the initial launch is done and the internal processes of content production are worked out (in my experience, content production workflow, even when you’re just adding a… Read more »
I’ve already got BoW and TGN waving shiny in my face all the time. I don’t think adding another one is a good idea for me…:)
I quite like the paper version. So far i haven’t made the transition to reading magazines on the pad. I downloaded a sample issue of something but I haven’t gotten around to actually reading it. The text seemed awfully small (no, I don’t have a mini-tablet). If reading means constantly zooming and panning the pages, just forget it… Reading on a computer is a big no no as well. I work on a computer. I relax on the sofa reading a magazine. If publishers really wanted to push the digital editions, they’d give them as freebies to regular subscribers, even… Read more »
Prefer print magazines and books, simply because I spend enough time looking at a computer screen on my 12 hour shifts at work.
It’s a decent enough app so far. It’s not terribly interactive (yet), but it gets all the basics right. Type is readable. Every link and page reference is active. Pictures look great (on my iPad mini, haven’t tried it on the Nexus yet). Purchasing issues is easy, subscriptions are handled through Newsstand on the iPad. No idea how they’re handling it on Android. Supposedly, the new interactive features (video, scrollable slideshows, 360 degree figure views) won’t be used until issue 316 (314 is the current issue). I imagine it takes some time to ramp up your content workflows to incorporate… Read more »
I like a magazine in the hand but the piles of old mags that comes with years of gaming is pushing me toward a easy to research archive that would be provided by going digital.