EGM en Espa�ol est� muerto

by Griffin McElroy { Dec 11th 2008 at 12:46PM }

For our unilingual readers whose loose grasp on the Spanish language sent that headline careening over their heads, the Spanish version of EGM is shutting down, according to editorial director Adrián Carbajal. Their upcoming December issue (the one with the Watchmen game on the cover) will effectively serve as their last installment after a little more than six years of publication.

It should come as no surprise that the main reason Carbajal cited for the collapse of EGM en Español is the seemingly perilous future of the English language version of the mag. Should yesterday's report that UGO is looking to purchase the 1UP network sans the twenty-year-old EGM come to fruition, it's unlikely that we'll see many more issues of the gaming magazine we tucked oh-so-many times into our Junior High textbooks.

[Thanks, Josué]

Tags: egm, egm-en-espanol, magazine, spanish, ziff-davis

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Heh @ Dec 11th 2008 12:51PM

And nothing of value was lost.

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Dec 11th 2008 6:55PM

Para ser honesto tiene razón. Era el EGM de hace un mes nada más que con los chistes pobremente traducidos y montones de anuncios de basura para vulgarizar tu celular.

Odio los anuncios de celular, casi me arruinan mi edición de colección de Marvel Zombies.Marvel México tiene demasiados anuncios malos.

Ahora que finalmente quiero decir que Gamers es superior incluso cuando no incluye demos y eso que solo compro las revistas por los demos. ( me ahorran tiempo y espacio en disco).

mlboakland1 @ Dec 11th 2008 12:56PM

por que!!!!

Dante G @ Dec 11th 2008 1:46PM

Víbora? Víbora?! Víiiiiiiiiiiiiiiboraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Dec 11th 2008 6:56PM

Tejón ,Tejón ,Tejón ,Tejón ,Tejón.

NessFK @ Dec 11th 2008 9:03PM

No surprise EGM is going out of business in some areas. The magazine is kind of crap and they sent me 3 free copies every month up until a couple of weeks ago.

Obie @ Dec 11th 2008 1:02PM

NOOO! EGM! NO ME DEJES! TE AMO!

xFenixKnightx @ Dec 11th 2008 1:02PM

NO SE PUEDE! :(

Noah @ Dec 11th 2008 1:09PM

Mori es vivire...mori es vivire...

Darth Cheney @ Dec 11th 2008 1:17PM

Dios Mio!

WRE @ Dec 11th 2008 1:21PM

Ay, ay, ay! No me gusta!

xFenixKnightx @ Dec 11th 2008 1:29PM

Ay, ay, ay! No es bueno!

nightmare452 @ Dec 11th 2008 1:22PM

NOOOOOOO!!!! POR QUE mataron la revista de español de "Jugando Videojuegos Mensual"?.

Pero no me importa, ni yo sabia que existia una.

**********TRANSLATION*********

NOOOOOOO!!!! WHY did they kill the spanish version of "Electronic Gaming Monthly"?

Don't care, heck, I didn't even knew it existed before.

Roto13 @ Dec 11th 2008 1:24PM

I haven't bought a magazine in years, but it's still kind of sad to think that EGM likely won't be around much longer. I do have happy memories of it.

Jeremy White @ Dec 11th 2008 1:27PM

itz ppl lik joystiq who killin da magazines lik egm

Obie @ Dec 11th 2008 1:30PM

And people like you who kill the English language.

Jeremy White @ Dec 11th 2008 2:09PM

And people like you who never really had an eye for sarcasm.

M @ Dec 11th 2008 1:35PM

Before the internet, EGM was awesome.

NERV @ Dec 11th 2008 1:41PM

PUTA MADRE YA VALIO VERGA TODO!

Dante G @ Dec 11th 2008 1:44PM

Internet killed the magazine star.

jorojoserojas @ Dec 11th 2008 1:56PM

Trailers came, and broke your heart.

Ridgecity @ Dec 11th 2008 7:22PM

and Joystiq killed 1up.com and Ign.com. Oh and their giant 3/4 of a page flash ads. Once you blocked those, the page turned into a tiny cellphone page!

Finito @ Dec 11th 2008 1:46PM

Since EGM is a 'revista' it's feminine, so it should be 'muerta'.

Descansa en paz.

Jkrincon @ Dec 11th 2008 4:39PM

You are totally right, but it is better how it is, it adds to the "Gringo" irony of the title :P
Just kidding.

Ernesto Peña @ Dec 11th 2008 2:05PM

EGM in USA will find the same dark path soon...The New King are Blogs

CJLopez @ Dec 11th 2008 2:47PM

Jajajajaja, man, loved all those spanish trolls, jajajajajja

Deivore @ Dec 12th 2008 1:25AM

It should be "es muerta," not esta. Esta implies that it's dead for the moment, ie in trouble. "Es" means dead, forever.

Artemisa @ Dec 12th 2008 1:58AM

@ Deivore: Nope, the title is correct (except for the muerta). Es is totally incorrect in that sentence. Es muerta it's like saying: the magazine is female dead person.

Dante G @ Dec 12th 2008 10:09AM

Besides, it's "está" not "esta" (chupas). Joystiq got it right.

Mr Khan @ Dec 11th 2008 3:24PM

tu no dice...

eNrique @ Dec 11th 2008 4:10PM

¿Qué?

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Dec 11th 2008 6:59PM

Tu Español es una deshonra para todos nosotros.

(Es broma).

vote for pedro @ Dec 11th 2008 3:44PM

esta de madre que se este acabando con la literatura de video juego en español pero bueno español sucks anyway........dile no tambien a joystiq en español

memot @ Dec 11th 2008 6:09PM

Chingada madre, yo compraba EGM >_>

Hasta que agarre band ancha.

(megacable apesta)

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Dec 11th 2008 7:02PM

Todos los servicios de banda ancha aqui son pesimos.¿Que te gusta? ¿Cablevision con su ultra paquete de miserables 2MB o Prodigy combrandote hasta la risa con un paquete de 4MB?.

Ridgecity @ Dec 11th 2008 7:18PM

puedes comprar Telcel 3G, $500 pesos por 100KB velocidad hasta 3GB de limite, luego cambia a 12KB por el tiempo restante. Que ratas.

JuanKRinkon @ Dec 11th 2008 4:36PM

Hey, actually, Vote for Pedro has a point, though, not in the way he intends.
Joystiq, you shoul hardly consider an spanish version of this website, the Latin-American and spanish audience is constantly growing and we need a High Quality website like yours.
I would gladly help! It could be amazing.
Joystiq en español, eso suena bastante bien.

Biff_McFresh @ Dec 11th 2008 4:51PM

Taco-X and his silly antics will be missed dearly.

Batzarro @ Dec 11th 2008 5:10PM

Dah! Never did like it. It was always behind on information. I know South America has it's own release time for games, but come on!

¿Que puedo decir? Nunca la compre.

Wiinterfang @ Dec 11th 2008 6:04PM

A carajo esa era mi revista favorita and español despues de Club Nintendo =(.

arriba? ARRRRRRRIIIIIBA!!!!!

Dante G @ Dec 11th 2008 7:37PM

Ah, Club Nintendo... Aquellos tiempos... cuando buscabas los rombos...

Wiinterfang @ Dec 11th 2008 7:40PM

Yo las coleccionaba antes pero aqui en estados unidos se me hacen dificil de conseguir.

Ridgecity @ Dec 11th 2008 7:15PM

Here in Mexico no one buys technology magazines anymore. Everyone has internet or goes to a cybercafé and those are the only ones that could care about them. The Nintendo magazine is in print because it's owned by one of the biggest media companies, and little kids like it. Most "serious" magazines go belly up after a year at most.

I would worry the day Cosmopolitan Magazines stops printing since that would mean that women don't really care "10 ideas on how to please your man in bed" anymore...