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Games get canceled, studios get shut-down, countless people are fired etc. There's some sad things that go on in the gaming world, but today is different, today at least the fans get something back.
Does anyone remember a gaming magazine by the name of Electronic Gaming Monthly? It was in print for nearly twenty years, with some of the best gaming journalists around. This past january the owner Ziff Davis sold its gaming network of websites to UGO, now that's all fine and dandy but 1UP one of the websites sold was directly tied to EGM, add in that UGO wasn't interested in the EGM property, especially with increasing risks in the print business, and you get Ziff Davis deciding to cease publication of EGM at the same time. Any other party could have stepped in and acquired the rights but no one did.
Most of the sites sold to UGO survived like Gamevideos.com, Mycheats.com, but there was another website on its last legs Filefront, UGO didn't want to buy it as they felt they didn't need it, luckily for Filefront the original owners bought all the rights back to keep it going.
Ever since that day I thought about maybe that happening for EGM, Turns out I was right! Steve Harris EGM's founder who started it all in 1989, then later sold it to ziff in 1996, just announced that he has acquired print and online publishing rights for the magazine, with plans to relaunch it in the second half of 2009.
"We are pleased that EGM is now in the hands of its original creator, Steve Harris, and wish him and the publication the best of success in the future," says Ziff CEO Jason Young."
For more info check out former Editor-In-Chief of EGM, James Mielke BLOG as well as what will be EGM's new site HERE.
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