The April 2009 issue will be the last for collectible card-gaming (CCG) magazine, Scrye. Rising printing costs, and diminished subscriber and advertising bases were cited as the reasons. Founded in 1993, Scrye was considered the authority on the CCG hobby and industry, providing current prices for cards of such games as Magic. In recent years, Scrye added collectibles miniatures games to its subjects. I am honestly surprised it lasted 15 years; that's honestly about 10 years longer than I would have predicted at the onset.
Analysts note Scrye's folding puts the exclamation point on CCG's sentence, but add the recession is hitting the magazine industry in general quite hard.
© C Harris Lynn, 2009
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