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[ACP]

#51

General Discussion / Re: A question about the Austr...

Last post by Kiwi - Jul 14, 2025, 08:21 PM

I noticed in the description of "Australian Station" in the database it says

Renamed to Australian Station after game piracy was exposed in Next Publishing offices and Sony disallowed the use of their console branding.

I am curious if there is more information about this incident somewhere? Is it why the Official Magazine shifted from Next Publishing to a new publisher too? It seems like it would have been an exciting scandal to hear about at the time!

I remember finding a couple of online references to this issue quite some time ago where iirc staff members were using copied discs on modded PlayStations on the Company premises. Can't remember the specifics but it sounded like they were caught out and were subsequently barred from using the PlayStation branding on all magazines from that time hence changing the name to simply Station from issue 20 onwards.

ACP were then given the rights to official branding of their competing magazine titles by Sony.

I wish I could remember the website where I found the details.

#52

General Discussion / A question about the Australia...

Last post by IloveCats100 - Jul 14, 2025, 12:09 PM

I noticed in the description of "Australian Station" in the database it says

Renamed to Australian Station after game piracy was exposed in Next Publishing offices and Sony disallowed the use of their console branding.

I am curious if there is more information about this incident somewhere? Is it why the Official Magazine shifted from Next Publishing to a new publisher too? It seems like it would have been an exciting scandal to hear about at the time!

[horniest]

#53

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 07/25

Last post by gobbins - Jul 14, 2025, 05:07 AM

"PARASITE EVE 2 - The horniest game in survival horror finally hits the UK!

Her character is not 'horny' in the slightest. Ah, good old fashioned sexism. 

[Warplane]

#54

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 07/25

Last post by Kiwi - Jul 13, 2025, 07:34 PM

Warplane issues 61 - 80 have been added to the download area ...

[DanielPrimed]

#55

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 07/25

Last post by Kiwi - Jul 13, 2025, 11:48 AM

DanielPrimed brings us Play (UK) #65. Brilliant!!

[Jason]

#56

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 07/25

Last post by kitsunebi - Jul 11, 2025, 10:34 AM

Scanned by Jason, edited by me.  Star Trek 14.

[Gregorick]

#57

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 07/25

Last post by Kiwi - Jul 11, 2025, 09:42 AM

Gregorick and JabbaTheGamer team up to bring us Xbox World #19 ...

[Images of War]

#58

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 07/25

Last post by Kiwi - Jul 11, 2025, 09:16 AM

Images of War issues 32 and 33 are now available ...

 

[Warplane]

#59

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 07/25

Last post by Kiwi - Jul 10, 2025, 08:20 PM

Warplane issues 56 - 60 are now available ...

   
 

#60

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 07/25

Last post by kitsunebi - Jul 09, 2025, 09:05 PM

On some scans, I do notice black levels are sometimes left as is on some scans and that makes game screenshots black crushed where all the detail is hidden.  Granted processing, adjusting and reviewing every page is cumbersome unless you have an photoshop action to apply in batch.  On these one you posted, the levels are perfect and one can see details even in the small game screenshots.

Overly-dark scans are usually the fault of a bad/cheap scanner (the equipment, not the person).  It's unfortunate, since when details become lost in blackness, Photoshop can't save them.  In digital terms, black is the lack of all data.  You can't brighten black or adjust its hue - black is black, just as white is white. 

It's possible someone could ruin a decent scan during the editing process by applying a Photoshop action which isn't suited for every page, but one would hope that no one is so lazy as to batch process an entire mag without bothering to even look at the results.  (I've never batch processed a mag ever.)

Of course, I've also noticed on some magazines where some screenshots are already overly dark/light to begin with (particularly older mags where the screenshots are literally photographs taken of monitor screens).