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Mass Firings At 1UP After Sale
helava says,
Wow. I've been a long time subscriber to EGM, which is getting the can after next month. Sucks. Basically means the end of US videogame magazines, as far as I can tell. The only thing left that's worth reading is EDGE.
It's a shame - EGM/1up's been one of the few magazines that's not obviously in the tank for publishers' PR departments, and I liked James Mielke's new direction for the magazine, it felt (in a very small way) like it was almost going back to the heyday of Next Generation, where there were more interesting articles and not just two paragraph "sound bites."
Ah, well. There's just no stopping the internet.
Article excerpt from kotaku.com —
"Oh boy. Looks like the sale of 1UP to Hearst hasn't gone as smoothly as you'd expect. Rather than simply move house, it seems most of the site's most experienced/popular writers have instead been let go.
Looks like when Ziff CEO said "Many of our employees will travel with this business and become part of the UGO team", he actually meant...
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Posted 1 year ago
Maybe we'll finally stop seeing articles that claim the game industry is recession-proof.
Posted 1 year ago
Well, that's a different story, IMO. The story here is that the internet killed videogames magazines dead. In such a fast-moving marketplace, the lead time for print is murder.
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