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Slow News Is Good News
gamebunny — ... Not strictly MMO-related - but it seems Ziff Davis is jettisoning some weight. The company has sold 1-Up.com to UGO and killed off long-running vid mag Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM). If you have a copy of the Jan. 2009 issue you may want to hang onto it -it’s now the final periodical. ...

Game Over!
MMOG Nation — Less than a year ago, I fervently wanted to work for 1up and Ziff Davis. Writing for a team that included folks like James “Milky” Mielke, Ryan Scott, Jeff Green, Shawn Elliot … right around the time I was thinking about leaving Slashdot, that would have been the bees knees. I even sat down with Sam Kennedy during GDC last year to talk to him about possibilities in the SFO area. This is the part where I say I’m ultimately glad I didn’t get hired. While Ziff-Davis CEO Jason Young’s message to his company — including current 1UP Network staff — today, along with coordinated press ...

Another game mag bites the dust
Raph's Website — ... This time it’s EGM. 1up is also severely affected. The news is all over a bunch of gaming sites — here’s Gamasutra’s coverage. ...

Shifting sands: EGM and Threshold MUD
/random — ... By now, you’ve all probably heard that EGM will no longer publish magazines, and the 1UP network has been sold to UGO. ...