Yeah, there's a lot of that going around...

Posted by Gary Hodges at 7:02 PM Nov 20, 2008

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According to this article at Gamasutra, it seems Ziff Davis is toying with the idea of shutting down the last of its print operations - industry fixture Electronic Gaming Monthly.

The article states ZD's CEO, Jason Young, is considering moving the publication to an "online-only format".

I (like a lot of you guys, I suspect) have been reading EGM from the beginning, so this news is a bit of a shock - even for a jaded old sonofabitch like me. To see such a fixture in games periodicals teetering on the brink is sobering. What do you guys think about all this? Is there anything you'd miss about a physical, real paper EGM? And more importantly, can anyone honestly and seriously argue there is a God in a universe where Gamepro marches onward while EGM is laid to rest?

(Not like EGM is a great magazine, but as far as North American mags go: beggars can't be choosers...)




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Comments

teedub said:

I would be sad, but I'm sure it's not cheap to run a print magazine of any kind in this day and age. I only hope that they wait until all current subscriptions expire.

It's the only magazine I currently subscribe to, gaming or otherwise.

BillyBob said:

Sad, yes, but surprising, no. EGM has a pretty low circulation. Granted, pretty much all of the mags do, minus Game Informer, so I can see how Ziff would try to funnel resources into 1up.com, rather than waste money on printing a magazine and shipping it out every month. Granted, 1up doesn't have the best traffic numbers, either, in the grand scheme of online gaming outlets.

Flashman said:

This is some pretty disappointing news, I hope they don't shut it down (though to be fair I haven't read it in years, since the internet is a much better information source, so I see where they're coming from), or if they do they at least let them hit the 20th anniversary next year.

zvifinklestein said:

I'd miss reading it on the toilet

Other than that, neh

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