BeyondUnreal
08 Jan 2009, 12:56
<p>Apparently, Ziff Davis decided that 1UP would be pretty much destroyed before UGO got a hold of it. That's why, just before the ownership changeover, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2009/01/07/gone-baby-gone-ugo-1up-sold-staff-promptly-fired">over 30 members of the site's staff got the axe</a> - and from the reports, there's very few survivors.</p>
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<p>Gamasutra received some inside information that, at roughly the same time, a large percentage of Ziff Davis' Game Group suddenly found itself unemployed. According to various reports, 30 members of the editorial, podcast, and video production staff was promptly told that it was fired. The detailed list of those who are now jobless is rather staggering: this is well beyond a corporate bloodbath, it's a scorched-earth policy with only a few survivors.</p>
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<p>Besides seemingly destroying 1UP, this report also reveals that the final issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, the 20-year old Gaming Magazine, (That I and probably many of you have read at some time or another) will be ceasing publication, with next month's issue the final issue.</p>
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<p>"With demand for print continuing to decline amongst both advertisers and readers," Young said in his email, "and the content being produced by 1UP no longer available for use in the publication, it simply did not make sense for us to move forward with this business any longer."</p>
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<p>Thanks to IronMonkey on the forums for pointing this out.</p>
More... (http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=12437)
<blockquote>
<p>Gamasutra received some inside information that, at roughly the same time, a large percentage of Ziff Davis' Game Group suddenly found itself unemployed. According to various reports, 30 members of the editorial, podcast, and video production staff was promptly told that it was fired. The detailed list of those who are now jobless is rather staggering: this is well beyond a corporate bloodbath, it's a scorched-earth policy with only a few survivors.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Besides seemingly destroying 1UP, this report also reveals that the final issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, the 20-year old Gaming Magazine, (That I and probably many of you have read at some time or another) will be ceasing publication, with next month's issue the final issue.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"With demand for print continuing to decline amongst both advertisers and readers," Young said in his email, "and the content being produced by 1UP no longer available for use in the publication, it simply did not make sense for us to move forward with this business any longer."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Thanks to IronMonkey on the forums for pointing this out.</p>
More... (http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=12437)