This week's printed version of Entertainment Weekly has a fairly large feature on how video games are shaping culture. If I was an cultural anthropologist, that's probably what the subject of my research would be.
In other print news, I picked up a copy of NewtypeUSA. It's basically the Japanese version brought over to the US. I pick up copies of the Japanese version of Newtype from time to time, so I noticed certain articles were taken from the original version and just translated into English. NewtypeUSA's quite a pricey magazine (9.95 US), but they do use the good paper, and each magazine comes with a DVD. The import version runs about 6 dollars, so that extra 4 bucks is probably the cost of the DVD and the translation. One of the things that I was rather surprised that they kept was the large format of the magazine. I generally don't read magazines since they have such long lead times that most things they cover have already been talked about on the net days, weeks, even months before. NewtypeUSA is no exception, since the anime market in the states is typically about 6 - 12 months behind the Japanese release of the anime.
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