education
I do like reading intelligent things. GEE doesn’t completely belong ot this group, but it’s close enough: A game magazine that caters to a mature readership, and that is refreshingly different.
Somehow it reminds me of the early issues of Wired. Wired was, and to a good extend still is, much more designed than GEE, and it had a much stronger political voice as GEE. But both serve the readers need to think twice, coupled with the love for technology as art.
That’s what sets these magazines apart: They don’t count pixel, megabytes etc, but actually sit down and think about what one can do with them. GEE can’t care less if company x builds a faster computer than company y, or if the screen resolution is better. They write about the games itself, and what sort of culture can evolve around them.
Couple that with a clean, if somewhat empty, design, good writing, and I’m sold.