Shit for me it was EGM and EGM2, at some moment I had Tips&Tricks subscription. Then Next Generation magazine they had a great articles on a Nintendo killer. (VM Labs?) 3do M2 and Sega Model 2 that draw me in to them.
I'm still upset with them. They had a small team developing a new modern Unreal Tournament game. Even have a Twitch channel with progress and updates. It was cool cause the team was taking input on Twitch. They even got as far as having 2 maybe 3 playable maps and custom skins on the epic game...