EGM sold to original founder, resumes publication this year

Seanbaby is and was a douchebag. Hopefully Harris is smart and forgets about 1Up, it's editors and contributors, and starts fresh. EGM sucked ass the last few years. He'd be wise to bring it back closer to it's roots than to continue on the train wreck that magazine was on. The magazine was almost not worth reading; actually most of the time it wasn't. Games getting a score of A, while the reviewer spends most of the space whining and moaning about what's wrong with the game? Please, man.

Stay away from 1Up and anyone who worked on the magazine in the last 5 years.

Old School EGM was terrible?

Put down the crack pipe, it's well-known that when EGM was old off that it got crappy. Dan "Shoe" Hsu? He sucked. The magazine got worse and worse every month.

I'm excited to see an old-school EGM, very excited. There should be a blog too, to keep it relevant and perhaps, as a backup plan should print media completely collapse.

Which it will.

I liked EGM back in the day too, but it's 2009. Do we really need to pay money for last month's info and pictures when today's info and pictures are online for free?

Seanbaby's thing got tired real quick. It was real funny and fresh at first, but the last 3 years or so were nonsensical rants when talking about crappy games or simply strugling to stay on topic. But I guess people liked it because people asked for more.

Did the mag start it's long slide when it moved to S.F.? Because I swear they got real liberal real fast. I only ask for nonpartisan in my reading material. Last time I brought it up here I got slammed by commenters.

Yes, yes we do....

I'm so glad EGM is back. Whenever I go to the magazine stands I'm left with magazines such as GamePro and Nintendo Power. I'll pass on those. I ordered an EGM subscription in December and was forced to get some Xbox magazine instead, too bad.

I still remember the days when EGM was like a half an inch thick. This was back during the NES games.

DieHard Gamefan was always nice because they always seemed to cover a lot of Japanese releases. Not sure whatever happened to that magazine.

Thank God, This is a silver lining on a crappy day. thank you steve! thank you so much

I moved from 1up.com to here after that deal. I hope they come back as strong as they were before!

I wonder if they'll be taking applications for new editors and writers...

Great news. First! to subscribe.

(I hate saying first, but this time is the only time it's okay)

This explains why I haven't gotten any new issues for a while...

Bring back Milkman!

Whoa I was wondering what happened to my free subscription.

But this is great news.

When Steve Harriss ran the show the mags were like catalog thick!

Ah the days learning about the Super Nes CD-ROM and new tips tricks for Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat.

I think EGM went down hill along time ago when Sentai sold it off to Ziff Davis and they moved out west.

PLEASE JOYSTIQ REMINDS US WHEN WE CAN SUBSCRIBE!

BEST...E3...EVAR (soley for this reason, nintendy, microstupid, and Sorny can go hump themselves with a rubber mallet EGM IS BACK!)

Woooooo, good news! I used to love this magazine back in the day, it was written by people who were ACTUALLY passionate about video games. I hope they bring back the Tanaka bros. too.

EGM IS BACK?!?!!

YES!!!! I've been a reader of EGM since I was like 8 and I'm 30 now. Hopefully, we'll see a return to the three or four man reviews as opposed to the crap they were doing before they got canned. I can't wait for it to start up again. To bad I won't get the year of subscription service I'm still owed by Ziff-Davis, who kept the money I paid them and never even bothered to send me a note saying the magazine had been cancelled. If I wasn't a reader of online media, I would never have none what happened =-_-X=

Fuck yeah! I pledge to buy two subscriptions.

The last 3 or so years of EGM were terrible. When they announced that it was going to die, I cheered! I wanted the remainder of the issues that I paid for, but I'm just plain happy that the crap "journalism" of EGM is dead. I can't believe that Game Informer passed EGM in standards of quality.

Both magazines act like they're owned by Sony anyway.

Ooh, yeah. I took a shot at Sony. Vote me down.

Check out the new website!

http://www.egmnow.com/

Steve is going to be doing updates on Twitter and Facebook so make sure you friend him.

Also it looks like Sushi-X is going to return!

Looks like allot of 1up and EGM alumni are working on the New EGM website...(Shoe is pretty much all but confirmed).

I still have at least 4-5 months worth of issues that never reached me because they shut down. I hope I can get them back - in the form of new EGM issues.

YAY!!!!!

Does anyone know if our EGM subscriptions will be credited toward the return EGM mag or how can we get our money back. As of January 2009 I was payed up till 12/2019. I even have the print out before EGM website went down. Thats 10 years worth of subscription and the customer service keeps saying theyll look into it. Ive even emailed Ziff Davis to no return. And in Feb 2009 customer service gave me numbers to call which lead me into long distance phone calls for 2 weeks from Ca where I live to New York, Texas, Florida, Rhode Island to all these companies they said to get a refund from. None knew me and I didnt know them. Most of my subscriptions were paid each time I recieved a leter and some were from the OPM and other magazines like XBOX Nation that all got folded and increased my subcriptions to a total of 122. Please respond to whats being done. Joystiq or the forum here. We need to help each other, it could happen again, you never know......And yes EGM was my favorite mag, but I have also recieved every mag at one time or another. EGM Rocked and OPM was awesome to back in the day, now its not bad.

I remember getting huge issues of EGM when I was back in junior high and high school in the 90s. It was fantastic! I would read and reread those issues all day long.

These days however with print cycles the way they are, keeping up with the latest news before its out of date is extremely hard. They need to do something drastically different with the print medium if anyone is going to pick them up in mass like they use to. If I want the latest in video game info these days I got RSS feeds that deliver the latest to my iPhone all day long.

I may be in the minority here, but I had subscribed for years and cancelled my subscription about a year before the folded because:

1. The magazine was shrinking into a pamphlet
2. The magazine was getting really crass, raunchy, and juvenile
3. The reviews were less and less informative about what the game was actually like.

Number 1 was only partially the magazines fault because of the internet and loss of advertisers, but 2 and 3 were very poor business choices in my opinion. If 2 and e change, I'll subscribe again. If not. No dice.