Tap! magazine for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad goes monthly
As regular readers of Revert to Saved probably know, I’m Contributing Editor to Tap! magazine, Future’s spiffy bi-monhtly iOS publication. (I plan the games section and write quite a bit of it, too.) But today there’s some big news from the Future mothership:
Tap! is now going monthly.
Issue 4 will arrive in stores on May 12, and then subsequent issues will follow every four weeks. Personally, I’m thrilled at the development, because I know how much passion and effort goes into every page of the magazine. I’d like to publicly thank editor Christopher Phin for his faith in giving me an entire section to play with; also, thanks to each and every person who’s bought a copy of the mag so far, enabling us to now get you twice as much Tap! goodness every year.
Hooray! Now, add a dedicated retro section and all will be brilliant!
Ha! Well, that’s never going to happen, but my editor’s perfectly happy for me to review retro fare as and when relevant. Issue 3 has a half-page Minotaur Rescue review, and other retro-oriented games include Super Blast 2, Ascendancy, Shift 2, Red Nova, I Love Strawberries, Journey to Uranus, Pix’N Love Rush DX, Super Stick Golf and Spirits.
Guess it’s the right time to subscribe then, eh? Oh, oh, and since you are being this nice, well, why not write something on iThing text adventures? It would be nice. Real nice.
Yup: subscribe! Get things! (Not sure what the current offer is—it was a branded AluPen last time I looked.)
On text adventures, I’ll bear it in mind. Generally, the games section is for new stuff, but we do have an “if you like” round-up spread, which could conceivably be used for IF at some point.
I’m pretty sure there wont be any particular offers for readers outside the UK, but I’m both used to and okay with that 🙂 Mind you, Andrew Plotkin’s Kickstarter success will be news (hopefully) soon.
Ah, no. If you’re one of those strange people from outside these here shores, you likely get the mag and that’s it. It’s also on Zinio, note, but the paper version’s best, I’d say.
Definitely. And I do still love (only a handful mind) properly papery mags.