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Captain Obvious Says: Gamers can read!

Image by Flickr user The Master Shake Signal
Image by Flickr user The Master Shake Signal

The other day while perusing the web, I stumbled (literally, using StumbleUpon) across Wikipedia’s ranking of the nation’s most popular circulating print magazines. Did you know that Game Informer, Gamestop’s magazine is number four on the list with nearly million subscribers?! The first three spots are taken up by AARP and Costco publications…but Game Informer is number 4, I reiterate with more question marks and exclamation points??!! Is this news only to me?? You can check out the list for yourself, but Game Informer with 7.6 million subscribers ranks well above the likes of Reader’s Digest, National Geographic, and Time.  The oldest magazine on the list, Ladies’ Home Journal (founded 1883), only has a piddly 3 million subscribers.

Um, yeah. So?

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