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DS Creative was a great magazine. I'm assuming it ended because of low interest and the work it took to produce?
As I recall the issue was getting enough submissions, though I could be garbling what was said.
T'is the nature of things.Back in the 80s and 90s I used to subscribe to Keyboard magazine. The articles were wonderful. The ads were even wonderful and there would sometimes be neat little acetate records included. But then over time the thick magazines devolved into thin pamphlets with almost no articles just ads and now the once mighty Keyboard magazine is no more. It exists only as a website now. When I'm in a bookstore just about the only music magazine I'll ever see is Guitar Player. Sometimes there will be a music production magazine that will include a pretty neat DVD full of samples and trial versions of software but they'll be very expensive and the article to ad mix is way too skewed in favour of the ads. I do kind of miss physical magazines but it's very convenient to just use a mobile device to access information on the internet while on the go.
My biggest disappointment is the devolution of "Scientific American" magazine. When I was in high school in the mid '60s I seem to remember that it was a thick tome with a flat binding. Each edition arrived with many wonderful articles that I couldn't completely understand but all had marvelous annotated illustrations and diagrams that gave me enough oversight to grasp the basics. It's where I learned how a ruby LASER (they used to capitalize the whole word back then) worked and I wrote a term paper about them based on the article. Back in the '60s they were still quite new, and ruby pulse lasers were essentially the only type. Point being, that the magazine Scientific American now is about 1/3 the thickness it used to be and is just folded and stapled like a cheap glossy weekly woman's magazine.
Fortunately though, it still has great articles and annotated diagrams & illustrations
but not as many of them, nor as many features and surprisingly interesting multi-page advertisements for professional grade equipment. Maybe I'm just imagining it and being overly nostalgic, but whenever I get a copy of it now I feel disappointed at how little I get for how much I have to pay.
Edited to add: I used to collect my Scientific American's. I had several tall piles of them for many years. But they're all gone now.
Sacrificed during one of my moves. But I can still get access to the old articles via the Internet, (for $$). What's really scary is that the magazine had a regular feature article called "50 Years Ago" and "100 Years Ago" that talked about old scientific discoveries. So now some of the new science that I learned about (like lasers) through the magazine are now showing up in the "50 Years Ago" article.
That's how Keyboard went. In the 70s when it first came out it was a saddle stitched publication. In the 80s and 90s it was a perfect bound magazine and then in the 00s it went to saddle stitched. I wish I still had all my old Keyboard magazines but I had a hot water heater burst which flooded my basement and ruined all but 1 which luckily was a Thomas Dolby cover issue.
Sure it's the nature of things but I don't know. At one time there were several art magazines that cartered to all levels of artist. There was even a Digital Artist magazine and Paintshop Pro magazine. I guess now the big magazines try to survive with the art from the heavy hitters and the sponsors.
I still have my Scientific Americans, going back to 1980. The old ones are saddle-stitched (stapled) and around 128 pages, the new ones are perfect bound and arounf 92 pages - geenrally with fewer advertisements (which is, of course, the root of the problem) - though the latest issue does hae fewer editorial apges and a couple of inserts plugging places (lots of pages on Taiwan near the beginning, and shorter bit at the end as I recall). (Edit: actually, the oen before the oen with the inserts had about the same number of editorial pages - 70ish - so perhaps the one I looked at with 90ish was exceptional).
Well, not quite as much of a devolvement as I had thought (old brains have unreliable memories) but still a noticeable shrinkage.
But still a great magazine.
I don't get out enough anymore to browse a copy on the newsstand for free 
So, I guess I'll have to re-enable my on-line subscription to see what's new in the world that won't make me want to hide in a bomb shelter.
I still think the problem with the dead tree editions of anthing is that the publishing industry never got around to using new distributive technology. The publishers always go with mass printings which requires a vast distribution network, poor distribution of inventory (you have some spots that will sell out and can't get more, and other spots that can't sell a copy which all gets sent back). Being that printing technology has vastly improved and become less expensive I can't but wonder why nobody has gone to a system where particularly magazines and comics can be printed at the store on demand and only blank paper, ink, and binding equipment needs to be present (as well as PDF's of the magazines to be printed). It shouldn't be that tough to put a system in place where the publisher gets the royalties from every sale, and it would bring costs down for everybody.
I am subbed to both of those. I have noticed over the years they've become thinner and thinner, with little content. I mean even if they're just showcasing artists work I'd still want them on my coffee table. I just don't think they make enough money to put more people on staff writing articles and so on. It's a shame because I love browsing them. Yes tutorials and showcases are available online these days but for us non-millenials actually holding a physical object and reading it is still a pleasure.
I like what Digital Art Live is doing...and they offer their mag for free. But there is so much out there. For instance, although I still use Photoshop up to CS6 (because I refuse to pay for a subscription), I've started using Paintshop Pro a lot more. Even though GIMP is absolutely free (and actually found it does things that Photoshop can do easily), I think it and Paintshop Pro are fantastic alternatives to Photoshop. But, Photoshop is a brand and is the most popular, so there is a ton of stuff, print and online, about Photoshop.
There was an attempt at a Paintshop Pro magazine a long time ago and I can't even find an old copy online or print. But there are plenty of Paintshop Pro users, especially professional photographers and artists.
In germany it is almost inpossible to get a printed 3d magazine. 3d world was an english import, at least. Now every PC magazine deals with latest smartphones, not a single sign of topics like 3d art.
germany is pretty much a 3d-less desert. ;-)
Do they get 3D Artist?