Talk:GamePro/Archives/2012

Idiot user changes "GamePro" to "LamePro"
The user 69.109.163.189 has changed many almost every word "GamePro" to "LamePro". I'll be working to change them back. Someone report him, please. --Andrex 22:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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That and this reads like an ad; needs edits. Thewastedsmile 04:13, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

When did this happen?

Article needs editing
This article is rife with bad grammar. Someone will need to go through it and clean it up. The writing is not concise and often structures sentences as point forms, starting them in the same manner. - 15-June-07

Gamepro Layoffs
Rumor is going around that there's been some serious layoffs at Gamepro including some editors. Can anyone verify this? Akit 00:08, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Retired Sections
Art-attack and Geek Speak have not been retired if you want proof go cheack the latest issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.189.36.194 (talk) 00:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

I heard a rumour at the water cooler today...
Can any one verify that the magazine is hutting down in the next twelve months? thanks Ottawa4ever (talk) 21:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * My bad, It was Electronic gaming monthly instead. Sorry to scare loyal readers of game pro.Ottawa4ever (talk) 00:09, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

What does protip mean?
From fourth paragraph in "History":

"GamePro was also known for its ProTips, small pieces of gameplay advice used as screenshot captions."

Could you clarify please? I have to take a screenshot in the game, then when I view it I can read a "screenshot caption"? Huh?

This is important because "Protip" is even a redirect to GamePro.


 * In reviews (which they called ProReviews, since they liked putting Pro on a lot of words), they had various screen shots from the game. Most had a random tip under the picture, like, "ProTip: Check the grave for a secret passage." Others had a random joke about something in the picture. 66.53.211.57 (talk) 04:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

--193.174.105.66 (talk) 14:40, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

This term is a humorous meme that seems to be popular on certain Internet forums. Since the word seems to have been coined by GamePro, perhaps the article could further discuss this (perhaps as a subsection of the History section where it's mentioned), and Protip redirected to that section, rather than to the whole article? B7T (talk) 21:49, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Very Poorly Sourced
All but one of the references for this article are press releases from GamePro Media. As such, the article reads like a press release and lacks a neutral tone.

I'm far too timid an editor to take such an action, but at this point I think that deleting the entire article and starting over from scratch with neutral sources would be the best way to clean up this mess. Silentmoth (talk) 22:50, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Homestuck / GameBro
Homestuck (from MS Paint Adventures) has a reference to GamePro called "GameBro", as well as a reference to Toblerone called "Broblerone". Should they be mentioned at all? 78.62.184.165 (talk) 17:31, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

I removed the following sections because they were unsourced and were overly detailed and not very encyclopedic triva. I'd do more but Wikipedia isn't loading correctly for me. I'd appreciate it if this was not put back in without a source.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  10:13, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Editorial characters From the birth of the magazine until issue #230, the Gamepro staff went by monikers and never by their real names. When GamePro began, the magazine only had a limited amount of editors on staff, but the small start-up wanted to give the illusion that they were bigger. Therefore, they created character names, and each writer generated articles under mulitple nicknames. The monikers caught on and became a tradition, one that's continued to this day. Many of the names, according to GamePro, are a play on the personalities, interests, and/or past jobs that the real person behind the persona has, and the editors choose their own name (while some they have admitted to being just "bad puns," such as Miss Spell and Bad Hare). After the first few years, most editors picked one name they liked and stuck with it.

Once an editor left GamePro, the name was respectfully retired, although the magazine retained all copyrights to the character. The names were rarely if ever used again, unless that writer returned (as was the case with Boba Fatt and Manny LaMancha, both of whom contributed work as freelance writers after their original runs with the magazine).

Many editor names have come and gone. However, there have been many names in the magazine's bylines that many longtime readers remember. Some of these names:


 * Abby Normal
 * AgentMarmalade
 * Ahoy and Avast
 * Air Hendrix (Paul Curthoys, also used the moniker Bacon, is now Editor-in-Chief at MacLife)
 * Boba Fatt (never worked at the magazine full-time, but was a contracted freelance writer for several years)
 * Boss Music
 * Bro Buzz (Wes Nihei, the long-time Editor in Chief left the company in 2007. )
 * Dan Elektro (also wrote under Bad Hare; he revealed his dual identities in forum posting upon leaving the magazine in 2004.)
 * D-Pad Destroyer (also wrote under The Freshman, Dunjin Master, and 5-o-clock Shadow. Left in July, 2004 to work as an editor for BioWare, where he now works as a writer.)
 * Dr. Dave (David Winstead, who went on to Capcom to work with James Goddard on the Street Fighter II arcade series.)
 * Dr. Mario (Parminder Ressan, formerly of "Game Informer" magazine)
 * Earth Angel
 * Fart of War (Shawn Elliott, who left to work at Electronic Gaming Monthly, later moving to Computer Gaming World (which became Games for Windows: The Official Magazine). Left in 2008 to become an Associate Producer at 2K Boston.)
 * Four-Eyed Dragon
 * Gideon (Francis Mao, also used Dr. Zombie and Mr. Blister personas, is now creative director at Capcom USA)
 * Johnny Ballgame (Jon Robinson, left to write for Incite, then became founding editor of IGN Sports. Is now at ESPN.com)
 * Jonny K
 * Lawrence of Arcadia
 * Long-Haired Offender
 * Lunchbox
 * Major Mike (Mike Weigand, formerly of EGM)
 * Miss Spell (reviewed games on occasion, but mostly worked in the magazine's design department)
 * Mr. Marbles
 * Nurse Furatu
 * Papa Frog
 * RebelPrincess
 * Rice Burner
 * Scary Larry (probably the most popular editor in GamePro ' s history and also the best-known because of his outspoken nature in writing reviews. He left the magazine in 1999 to have more time with his family)
 * Slasher Quan (one of the few GamePro editors to have his persona moved to a different magazine; he kept it when he moved to Diehard GameFan; online editor Syriel also kept his moniker intact when moving to Hardcore Gamer magazine.)
 * Star Dingo (Sean Molloy, originally worked in the movies review section of GamePro.com but transitioned into reviewing games . Would eventually work at Computer Gaming World, but left in 2008 to join Blizzard Entertainment.)
 * Tenacious Moses
 * The Rookie (later changed his name to The Enforcer; also left to write for Incite in 1999)
 * The Vixen
 * Tommy Glide
 * Vicious Sid (left as of October 2009-Issue#254)

In 2006, GamePro.com received a revamp, and in turn, another tradition was seemly dropped: That editors would not reveal their true names, as the editor bio sections of GamePro.com may show the editor's true name (seemly in the event that an editor chooses). Also, both in the magazine (in the "Ask The Pros" sidebar of "Head-2-Head") and on the site, a picture of the editor is shown, albeit in an interpolated rotoscoping style. The Watch Dog's identity is also kept secret, probably due to the column he maintains, Buyer's Beware, and the backlash one might receive for writing the column and the scathing criticisms of game company's customer support that the column is known for publishing.

Also, in 1994 and 1995, a total of four people who won The Blockbuster Video World Game Championships got to write reviews under their own personas for GamePro; the 1994 winners got to write reviews for Super Punch-Out!! (Dark Mark and Fred Dread) and the 1995 winners got to write reviews for the Sega Saturn version of Virtua Fighter. The tournament went defunct after 1995.

On issue #230, the GamePro editors had relinquished this practice and had begun to use the real names of the editors in the bylines. This has come with mixed reviews. While some commend GamePro for finally making a crucial move to be more "grown-up" (many of the criticisms of the magazine stemmed from the personas), others have cited that GamePro had eliminated one of the key elements of the magazine that made it unique among gamers.

The personas are still somewhat active on the magazine's website for the last persona characters that were made prior to the change (called "GamerTags" on the site), mostly for their blogs and the forums.

A vandal changed almost every instance of "GamePro" to "Gamepro"
And nobody noticed. --Niemti (talk) 17:59, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

GamePro.com
No longer exists... any info? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.142.101.164 (talk) 19:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC)