Comments on: 1UP.com Sold to UGO, EGM No More — Geek Says Goodbye

By: Text Tree: A Week of Interviews on New Media v1.7

Text Tree: A Week of Interviews on New Media v1.7 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:33:13 +0000

[...] In the light of the recent events with Ziff-Davis and 1UP/UGO, it could be said that the cutbacks we’ve seen budget-wise in games journalism are [...]

By: Text Tree: A Week of Interviews on New Media v1.1

Text Tree: A Week of Interviews on New Media v1.1 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:41:03 +0000

[...] delivery are affecting the way we cover games and — maybe more importantly in the light of the recent UGO/EGM/1up debacle — the changing business models employed by game writing publications going [...]

By: You Will Be Missed, EGM « Crossen the Lines

You Will Be Missed, EGM « Crossen the Lines — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:20:51 +0000

[...] officiallly have been let go most of which are from GameVideos.com. A pride of writers from EGM, which included Shane Bettenhausen and James Mielke (aka the “Milkman”), were laid-off in the process as [...]

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:23:53 +0000

GUH!?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:03:09 +0000

I still got them in the mail. It’s sad. It is/was the few magazines I buy. It’s pretty sad.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:52:13 +0000

Breaks my heart man. I pick up EGM off the newsstands every month. Gamepro and Game Informer and no where NEAR as good as that publication. RIP.

By: Tim Quirino

Tim Quirino — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:48:16 +0000

sigh @ big business.