Your Editor was asked to explain what advantages Game! might offer over a careful internet search, reading of internet newsgroups, and the like. What one of our authors said will be said someplace else by someone else. On one hand, we do have contributors who write solely for us. If you want to read their masterpieces, you are more or less obligated to read them here. By also present important assembled works, such as the Convention Schedule, that are brought together from a wide range of places for your entertainment. Once upon a time, thirty years ago, a conventions schedule might have showed ten conventions for the Summer. Under modern conditions, ten conventions have been known to occur on the same weekend. On the other hand Game! is filtered. Internet news groups and letter columns are prone to disputes of all sorts, with long and tedious disagreements about pointless issues, spamming, and the like. All those exotic arguments are avoided in the pages of Game!, because we do not print them. Half the readers of rec.games.stalingrad may believe that there is a scientific proof that dice can only be random if they are colored white, but you won't have to hear about that. Thanks to the miracle of Editorial Intervention, all that silliness is avoided. On the other hand, publishing Game! costs money. A lot of those costs are rather hard to see from a distance. Electrons are free. Not only can you recycle your electrons, but the laws of nature leave you no choice: you must recycle your electrons. The same is not true for mechanical costs, software, staff time at GameTableOnline, the hard work of Sandi at Homer Games, review copies of reviewed games, and other related materials. If you want to see Game! continue, you can Do Your Part! by telling your gaming friends about our magazine and seeing that they, too subscribe. And Until Next Month: Gamers! To Your Tables! Back to Table of Contents -- Game! # 8 To Game! List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by George Phillies. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com