I love this thing, it reminds me of an old manga website when I was just a kid. Great job guys

Congrats to everyone who contributed, and I'm glad to be a part of it!
Thank you Atomic and everyone else for all the hard work you guys have put in <3

The whole thing is really impressive; a few minor mistakes, but it's all very well laid out and visually striking, with a solid variety of content. Great job to everyone involved!

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Really impressed with how professional it looks, great job

Awesome! Very well done!

The quality is way beyond my expectation!
I enjoy it a lot!

Amazing SGM! Page 4 and 5 background colour looked blunt. Everything else has a premium look. Signals and The Evil Within had a detailed review! Loved it! Some titles like Noita seemed as if the person is not into roguelikes!
As a 1st Issue very Remarkable job CentralHub Team!

Amazing work by you and the team, it looks great, and it's fun to read! Can't wait to see how this progresses!

One bit of feedback -- I thought the "News" page was a bit hard to read, I would love to see the headlines be in a different font from the articles, and maybe bolded or underlined.

Bump.This is awesome. Always cool to see community efforts here. I'm looking forward to the next month!

Not bad. So, critiques:
I felt some of the reviews were too wordy, but eh, who am I to judge.
Had to zoom in quite a bit for a few of the pages to be able to read them without squinting, so suspect that's got to do with some of the font selections and colours used that others also brought up.
Last page of Noita (p26) lost the running theme of the first three pages.
Also, I feel the mascot needed to show up earlier in the magazine (introduced, perhaps, and have a brief say at the start or end of the magazine as well?), I was initially unsure if the mascot was just the avatar of the first reviewer. heh.
Lastly, Skeletor. You did so well to not incorporate extraneous IPs, and even had a mascot. And then that. IR disappoint.

I have never been interested magazines and that probably won't change because I don't find it enjoyable to consume that type of content, but I skimmed through it and I was very surprised by how good it turned out. It was much better than I thought it was going to be after reading the main thread.

The one thing that I felt was missing is a dark mode for the background/border. I'm guessing that is controlled by the site though and you can't change it. There are probably extensions I could use to do it myself if I really wanted to.

I may not read magazines, but you, and everyone else that helped, have created something really nice for those that do. There is a great community here. Thanks for all the time and effort all of you put into it :)

Looks and reads great! Awesome job!

Congratulations on the job well done.
There are some things that could be changed like the picture that was chosen for my name doesn't correspond with mine.
In my review the writing could be improved upon. My fault for rushing and sending the first draft. If you will edit something for the pdf version I would like for you to check my last sent one. It might improve a bit.
Don't be discouraged to play death's door because of the cons stated at the end. The puzzles are not hard,there is a specific one involving pots in the witch estate garden, that you need to check the old photograph, one of the many random objects you pick in the world, to know the answer. Which doesnt make much sense, since the only other collectible that has a use is rusty belltower key(they are 24 in total).

The magazine looks amazing, that must have taking so much time :O Good job to everyone that worked on it :)

My only remark, and I don't even know if it's possible but, would it be possible to click on screenshot to enlarge that screenshot? Because at the moment I feel they're very tiny. Just a thought.

On a side note, I do remember Doom the movie :D I even went to see it in theaters. While it's certainly a mediocre and forgettable experience, from what I remember about it is that it does kind of follow a similar story to Doom 3 where they go to Mars to investigate missing scientists? I could be wrong though it's been so long.

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Looks so good! Loving the design and the in depth reviews.
Brilliant job everyone. And now I'm off playing the games I already own and wishlisting Signalis

Just skipped through the magazine, looks like a great job!

I'll add my voice to the chorus of "Damn! That looks really good!". Definitely going to have to make time to read it.

Finally had time to read and this made me feel nostalgic. I still have some 20 years old LEVEL magazines somewhere and I saw the similar light here. First of all, very good for a first issue even so it's open to improvement. I wasn't expecting an animated flipbook and not gonna lie it felt good, even though I usually prefer simpler things. Also loved the mascot.

Now I can add some design-wise advises:

• As much as different font selection for every theme looks nice from a distance, from an accessibility point that also makes the readability lower. I would say pick a fewer number of font types (e.g. one sans, one serif, some slab fonts) and only use these for the main body, themed fonts still would be nice as titles.
• Color use is generally good but for some pages the color temperature could've been better, again from a readability point. If you're gonna use complex backgrounds, might as well consider using white or black shadows for writing parts as well, shady font backgrounds would also work as you did for some pages. If the contrast is good enough no need for any of these though. Also using more pastel colors could be better.

I generally liked the design frame and making all these in a short time of period is impressive. Thank you for all the work. \o/

Wowwiee!! This was such a treat to go through. I only perused through some of the reviews. And I got to say really well done. The artwork/editing is amazing! Thats what makes it also so readable to attention deficient individuals like me.
Keep up the great work :)

Bump for good job everyone + waiting for the PDF version.

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Impressive AF. Kudos to all contributors!

I'm still currently reading the magazine so far (I'm so slow...), and must admit that it's really cool.
From the POV of someone who isn't actually fluent in english, it's overall easy enough to read and pretty much enjoyable. (just had to check for a few words in the biggest reviews).
Nice job 👍

Ps: can't believe you really added Barbie Girl into the playlist 😂

Finally got to looking through this....

Bravo!

When I first read your thread about doing this I wasn't really sure what to expect when it was completed and now that I see the final product I have to say it turned out awesome! Seriously this is great, thanks to everyone who contributed to the project. The reviews are great and I love all of the extras in there.

I saw there were reviews with different labels. Most had "Review" on them and then "Retro Review" for Worms Armagedon and "Main Review" for Necromunda: Hired Gun. I was curious what the criteria is for each type of label. Worms Armagedon is from 1999, so I see how it fits in Retro. Is there a specific year you've decided on for a game to be in the "Retro Reviews"? For "Main Review" what is the criteria for that and what makes it different than the ones with just "Review"?

I did want to mention there was one line of text that's really hard read due to the color on the SGM's Playlist. The one for "Sweater Weather" by The Neighbourhood in yellow text in the middle of the list.