Do you like to receive your news a week late? Do you enjoy not being able to read what you pay for? Do you have a large stack of money just sitting on the table with no place to spend it? If you answered “yes” to all of the above then have I got a deal for you! National Console Support, Inc is offering yearly subscriptions to the highly popular (and Japanese-language), biweekly gaming publication, Weekly Famitsu, at a price only a real fan could afford.

At the very least, and with the longest wait, the subscription will set you back $480 for 52 issues, and at the most you can overnight the magazine for whopping...wait for it...$2860! Personally, I would just stick to reading the news sites – but then again maybe I’m just not hardcore enough.

[via Kotaku]

Mere months after the abrupt end of ADV's Newtype USA magazine, its successor, PiQ magazine, is reportedly ending its four-month publishing career. ICv2 reports that the primary reasons for the magazine shutting down are "low advertising revenue, poor business management, and a lack of proper marketing and promotion."

Regardless of PiQ's more diverse, less anime-centric approach and the fact that Newtype subscribers carried over to the new mag, it apparently failed to achieve a large enough readerbase, and the magazine's staff calls it "an exercise in futility."

ADV's website is under maintenance right now, so we have yet to hear from them on if they will be replacing PiQ with yet another magazine. However, prospects seem grim for this once-giant of the American anime scene as it grasps to make some sort of revenue from a sinking market.

[via ICv2]

(Sorry for the lack of images, but Blogger is being dumb right now)

ADV's wildly popular anime magazine Newtype USA, in publication for five years and 66 issues, will cease publication this February, as its last issue hits newsstands. Word is that ADV will be replacing Newtype with another magazine. No information has been provided as of yet on the currently untitled publication. Newertype anyone?

This is definitely good news for the competing American anime magazines, namely the veteran Protoculture Addicts, Anime Insider, and the startup Otaku USA. Newtype has been a significant force in the American anime industry for the past few years, and it will be a shame to watch it disappear.
[via Anime Explosion]