Electronic Gaming Monthly

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Electronic Gaming Monthly
Fifth version of the logo
description Computer game magazine
language English
publishing company EGM Media, LLC
First edition March 1989
Frequency of publication bi-monthly
Editor-in-chief Steve Harris
editor Steve Harris
executive Director Steve Harris
Web link www.egmnow.com
ISSN 1058-918X
ZDB 2070003-9

Electronic Gaming Monthly ( EGM ) is an American computer game magazine .

history

The magazine was launched in March 1989 by Steve Harris as a specialist magazine for game consoles and was published monthly by the Sendai Media Group. In 1996 Sendai was taken over by Ziff Davis , where the EGM, as a sister magazine of Computer Gaming World (CGW), covered the console area. In January 2009, shortly before the 20th anniversary, the magazine was discontinued after 239 issues by the financially struggling publishing mother. The hiring was part of a comprehensive restructuring of the publishing portfolio. In April 2008, the CGW successor format Games for Windows had already been discontinued, at the same time as the discontinuation of EGM, the publisher's online range of computer games was sold. However, despite the recent 500,000 readers, no buyer could be found for the EGM. After hiring, the founder of the magazine, Steve Harris, regained the naming rights of Ziff Davis. Since April 2010, the magazine has been published by EGM Media under his direction. With the revival of the magazine, the frequency was changed to bimonthly and the reporting area was expanded to include PC and mobile platforms.

Website

The magazine's first website appeared under the domain nuke.com. In 1996 the site was merged with GameSpot after Ziff Davis took over the Sendai Media Group. After GameSpot was sold by Ziff Davis to CNET in 2003 , 1UP.com became the magazine's new website. This was sold separately at the same time as the print edition of EGM was discontinued, before it was taken over again by Ziff Davis together with IGN after another change of ownership and discontinued in February 2013. Since the relaunch, the magazine page has been under the domain egmnow.com.

Offshoot

July 1994 appeared with EGM2 (stylized: EGM 2 ) a sister publication, which specialized in cheats and solution aids. A total of 49 issues were published before the magazine was renamed Expert Gamer in August 1998 and, after 39 additional issues, finally renamed GameNOW in November 2001 . In January 2004, GameNOW was finally discontinued after 27 issues.

There were also several foreign language offshoots of the magazine, each managed by its own editorial team

  • From November 2002 to 2008 the Electronic Gaming Monthly en español was published by Editorial Televisa in Mexico . The editor-in-chief of the paper was Adrián Carbajal. In December 2008, the magazine was discontinued due to financial problems from Ziff Davis.
  • As of 2003, the company moved Conrad Editora the EGM Brasil before it was released by Futuro Comunicação from winter of 2005. With the discontinuation of EGM US, the magazine was renamed EGW (Entertainment + Game World) .
  • Other foreign editions: EGM Thailand (Publisher: Future Gamer Company), EGM Singapore (Publisher: MediaCorp Publishing) and EGM Turkey (Publisher: Merkez Dergi).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brendan Sinclair: Electronic Gaming Monthly shutting down ( English ) In: GameSpot . CNET . January 6, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  2. ↑ Sam Kennedy: Games For Windows Magazine Moves Online ( English ) In: 1UP . Point Davis . August 4, 2008. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Ziff Davis Sells 1UP Network To UGO / Hearst, Closes EGM ( English ) In: Gamasutra . UBM plc . January 7, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  4. ↑ Thorin McGee: 'I'm Not Trying to Ignore Digital, I'm counting on it': Big Ideas Behind the Relaunch of EGM ( English ) In: Publishing Executive . North American Publishing Company . June 29, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  5. ↑ Ben Gilbert: EGM relaunches with April issue, explains digital content ( English ) In: Joystiq . AOL . December 21, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ Kirk Hamilton: Ziff Davis Shuts Down 1UP, Gamespy and UGO [Update ] ( English ) In: Kotaku . February 21, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  7. ^ Adrián Carbajal: EGM en Español (2002-2008) ( Spanish ) December 10, 2008. Archived from the original on December 18, 2008. Retrieved on May 15, 2013.