Name that Magazine!

[GrimFinger]

It might be easier to keep track of name suggestions for the new magazine, by creating a thread dedicated to that purpose.

So, here are some possibilities to pour over and ponder, for those who are interested.

Turn-Based Gaming Monthly
Imperial Informer
PBM Star
PBM Globe-Dispatch
Gaming for the Heavily Caffeinated
Dead Genre Gaming
Tribal Starfleet Trade Report
PBM Universal II
PBM Frigate
Special Action
Thinking Man Game Post
PBM Panic
Grimfinger's Grimmoire
Grim Post
Obscure Games Quarterly (riff off a scene in 'Dodgeball')
Phoenix
Gamicron Delta
PostGame Dispatch
Screaming Toward Extinction
Game Funk Railroad
Valley of the Ancients
Ready to Explode
PlayByMail.Net Dispatch
The SOMETHING of TBG
Distance Gaming
Turn-based Distance Gaming



BEEYOND
Swarm of the Ancients
Godspacular
Swarming With Interest
Swarmtacular
PBM Titans
Titans of Twilight
Postal Titans
Titanic Swarm
New Guard
Hive
Ancients Scorned
Hordes
Cosmic Swarm
Stasis Vault
Pandemonium
Fundemonium
Stasis Zone
Rising Swarm
The Swarm Cometh
Minions of Mayhem
Postal Fury
Creative Violence
Postal Vengeance
Vengeful Voices
Twilight Swarm
The Swarm Cometh!
Destiny Revisited
Cosmic Spawn
PBM
TBT
Turn Based Titans
Legacy Unfolding
Postal Treasures
Turn-Based Fury
Extinction Level Event
Catastrophic Fun
Extinction Defiance
Armchair Armageddon
Geddon McFun
Beyond The Brink
Toxic Pleasures
Lotta Nerve
Nerve Center
Masters of Destiny
Destiny Ho!
Conquering Spirit
Conquerors of Extinction
American Bismarck
Worthy Souls
Game Train
Bridging The Future
Star Music
Railroad of the Gods
Chosen Friction
You Are Here!
Moon Legion
Time Heist
Groundbreakers
Funderdome
Children of Annihilation
Will Destiny
God's Will
Comes The Lightning
Command Presence
Final Stand
Light From Darkness
Forgotten Bastards
Defy
Feed the Beast
Leviathan Summoned
Population: One
Experience the Xperience!
Follow
The Following
Primeval Struggle
War Footing
For Glory!
Genre Burst
Game Burst
Heightened Experience
Glob
Landslide
Draconian Pleasures
Doohickey
Exploding Mailboxes
Rabid
Gargantuan Challenge
Gathering Irony
Ironic Turns
Turn-Based Exploits
Religious Deadline
Priesthood of the Turn Based
Planet Turnbased

[ixnay]

these are my top-10 from that list:

Gaming for the Heavily Caffeinated
Tribal Starfleet Trade Report
Grim Post
Obscure Games Quarterly (riff off a scene in 'Dodgeball')
Forgotten Bastards
Ironic Turns
Extinction Level Event
The SOMETHING of TBG
Game Funk Railroad
Turn Based Titans


... to which I will add one more:

Post Game

[Greybeard]

It might be easier to keep track of name suggestions for the new magazine, by creating a thread dedicated to that purpose.

So, here are some possibilities to pour over and ponder, for those who are interested.

Turn-Based Gaming Monthly

Grim, I'd go for the first option in you long list: But leave out the "Monthly". Turn-based Gaming is enough, short and snappy. I don't think its necessary to specify if it is postal, email, or on-line gaming, all these are varieties anyway of the core definition. How often it is published is also not necessary to specify, leave it flexible.

[Smurphboogie]

I tend to agree with Greybeard that the magazine name should be kept simple or at least to have a simple tagline on a more exotic name.

i.e.
Final Stand: The Turn Based Gaming Magazine

[Greybeard]

A sub-title, or tag-line is a good idea, Smurphboogie. I'd go with the one you suggest, whatever Grimfinger may finally decide as a title.

[PNMarkW2]

Okay, I posted these to another thread before I realized my mistake.

Some suggestions for the name the magazine mix...

PBM Gamer (admittedly a name I had planed to use for a PBM magazine a couple years ago, but still a good name)
PBM Review
PBM World
PBM Archive
PBM R Us
PBM Survey
PBM Files
PBM ...

You get the idea. :-)

[ixnay]

I thought I'd regurgitate this ancient thread, both for fun and as a way of floating names for my mini-zine idea. This will be a small zine, done as something like a companion to S&D, with a scope extending beyond PBM stuff. It will work off the "slow gaming" concept recently discussed around here -- heavy, involved gaming experiences, wherever they may be found. PBM is part of that scope, but so is the euro-boardgame movement, certain PC games and MMOs, and even fantasy sports.

Some name ideas:
- PROG Gaming (Proactive-Reflective Organized Gameplay) or just PROG
- Fin Whale (ancient, mostly submerged, asymmetric markings, high momentum)
- Ixnay's Editorial Dispatch
- PONG (Pictures from Outside Neural Gaming or some other such acronym)

Possible sub-titles:
- gaming at the speed of thought
- gaming for the heavily caffeinated

any thoughts? rotten tomatoes?

[Angerak]

I thought I'd regurgitate this ancient thread, both for fun and as a way of floating names for my mini-zine idea.  This will be a small zine, done as something like a companion to S&D, with a scope extending beyond PBM stuff.  It will work off the "slow gaming" concept recently discussed around here -- heavy, involved gaming experiences, wherever they may be found.  PBM is part of that scope, but so is the euro-boardgame movement, certain PC games and MMOs, and even fantasy sports.

Some name ideas:
- PROG Gaming (Proactive-Reflective Organized Gameplay) or just PROG
- Fin Whale (ancient, mostly submerged, asymmetric markings, high momentum)
- Ixnay's Editorial Dispatch
- PONG (Pictures from Outside Neural Gaming or some other such acronym)

Possible sub-titles:
- gaming at the speed of thought
- gaming for the heavily caffeinated

any thoughts?  rotten tomatoes?

Ixnay,

Because you're looking for a broader scope, maybe something more generic in nature like "Cerebral Games" or "Ponderous Gaming" might work well for you ... although "gaming for the heavily caffeinated" works very well for me!

Paul