The Joystiq Weekend: May 31 - June 1, 2008

I hear the same company are now releasing PSP and PS3 guides.

Ouch.

The idea is that the guide writers themselves can now insert the button symbols in the text directly, rather than having a second art department or editor go in with a search-and-replace tool to "correct" the button names. That second pass has the possibility to introduce errors, which would be bad.

Also, creating a font is a pretty involved task... I'd say this is cash well spent on Prima's part. Your average art department likely does not have the expertise to put together a scalable TrueType font, and learning the software etc. would probably take longer than it would really have been worth.

As for guides, I usually don't get them because I'm a year or so behind on picking up certain games (I'm just now getting to Wild ARMs 5), but if the game's one I'm a fan of or if the guide has something extra, such as a soundtrack CD or artwork.