World Gaming Magazine

WGMs history dates back to early 2009, when four men sat down together to discuss building a gaming information website designed to educate, inform and entertain people who love to bet. By the time the dust had settled, the website had evolved into an offline paper magazine, which ironically gave birth to its own website! Both the paper magazine WGM and our website wgm8.com were born and that gang of four went on to become a team of over 30 people. Our first pre-launch issue was produced in November 2009 which affectionately came to be known as issue zero. We only printed 1,000 copies of issue zero and they were never available to the general public. They may become collectors items one day! We held our launch party in December 2009 in Macau and our first issue available to the public (Jan/Feb 2010) hit the streets towards the end of that month. WGMs head office has been in Macau since our launch. What a long way weve come since then! Originally known as World Gaming magazine, our maiden masthead on issue zero (WGM#0) was a very different beast to the one you see now with the Pai Yao mascot in all yellow and gold colors and the English name much larger than the Chinese. By the time WGM#1 came out Pai Yao had changed to red and yellow, but the first major step in the evolution of our masthead came in WGM#10 (May/Jun 2011) when we opted to make the Chinese name bigger and more prominent. This is the way it stayed for the next four years. It was ultimately the changing face of Macau that led to our current masthead, which appeared for the first time on the cover of our Jan/Feb 2015 issue. Although the Chinese remains the same as previously, the magazine now goes simply by WGM in English the removal of the word gaming reflected an increased focus on luxury entertainment lifestyle in our pages as opposed to a focus on gaming. Following this trend, we also improved the quality of paper WGM is printed on with the magazine now featuring a matt finish on the cover and gold stamping on our logo. Will this be the last ...