If you haven’t checked out EGMi on the iPad, you’re missing out on the future of digital magazines. Anyone familiar with the digital edition of Wired will feel right at home here. I’ve long thought of myself as a connoisseur of video game magazines and I love how interactive and fun the digital version is. Once you download the issue it (obviously) resides locally on your iPad which is a good thing for me since I travel underground to go to work. What makes EGMi so good is that, like Wired, its pages are interactive; from slide shows of the game in question to video trailers, and even audio clips pulled directly out of interviews. The overall design of the magazine suits the tablet well, and as much as I love hard copies, I would not be entirely unhappy if the EGM magazine one day went digital only. At the very least it’s a viable last ditch effort if the magazine were to fail.

It's been well documented that the Internet has killed a lot of the magazine business because a monthly magazine simply can’t compete with the ‘round the clock coverage that websites provide. On the flip side, where magazines tend to excel is in how well thought out and well written a lot of their features are. While you may not get a timely review for a game, you will get a thorough feature on the company behind the game. To me that is the draw of a quality magazine. However, I also want my news updates and with a weekly delivery schedule, EGMi is attempting to provide the best of both worlds.

EGMi also works on a browser and is still fully interactive, but it tends to lose some of it’s sparkle on a computer monitor. Bravo to those guys at EGM for coming up with this quality product. Their readers have been asking for this since the relaunch of the brand and magazine in March of 2010. It’s been a long time coming; with a lot of deadlines missed, but in my opinion the wait was well worth it.