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 Digg.com Facebook Google Bookmarks N4G Gamerblips del.icio.us Reddit Slashdot.org StumbleUpon useless .......!! Its nice to see that releasing half finished items isnt just restricted to the actual game side of the industry. :roll: Speaking as a newspaper journalist, I have to say that is absolutely staggering. Amateur stuff. Speaking as a Journalist too, shit happens. They're gonna send the page so no harm done. I'm looking forward to reading the article. ha, i literally just got to this bit in the mag, and was thinking 'wtf!'
Then i saw the rip marks of the page that once was. The official Nintendo mag have done this before as well i guess this is the part where everyone speculates what the advert was? im guessing this is the part where everyone speculates what the advert was and what was wrong with it? 'Final Fantasy 13 coming soon to xbox 360'
hahaha I disagree bgriffinPS3, speaking as a Journalism Graduate (didn't choose it as a career) this is unbelievably amateur.
The mentality of 'sh*t happens' when it comes to Journalism is the reason that standards are dropping across the board and no f*cker can spell our own bloody language.
Don't get me wrong, they've gone about it the right way making up for it by sticking it up on their website, but no excuses here guys. Even if you stick an(can't remember the correct publishing term for it) additional loose A4 piece of paper with the remainder of the review in it within the pages, it would be a whole lot better than cutting out the conclusion to a 'world exclusive' review. The cost of printing and inserting an additional sheet of A4 would have been prohibitive - do you really think they wanted to pay an army of people to rip out a page of the mag? Of course not - that's not cheap either.
It's not 'unbelievably amateur'. What would you have them do? Leave the mag intact and incur the wrath of God-knows-what? Possibly legal action or customer complaints?
It's dreadfully bad luck that it's on back of probably the most important page in the mag. But shit does happen. I've worked on mags and had just the same level of shit happen to me. I can guarantee the team are now all sat at their desks, head in hands, way more pissed off than you are. This sort of thing has happen loads of times before.
In the mid 1980's CRASH magazine had to recall an entire issue from the shops after they were ordered to remove a dozen or so pages that were a micky take of another magazine.
When it reappeared all the issues just had a few scraps left where the pages had just been torn out.
Personally I couldn't care less what the last page of the article said, I want to know what the advert was. | 
