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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Rman on December 21, 2009, 07:46:02 PM

Title: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Rman on December 21, 2009, 07:46:02 PM: Quote
EGM Media this morning announced the distribution of its upcoming magazine via an "agreement" with Time/Warner Retail Sales and Marketing (former EGM/Ziff Davis Media distributor), alongside intentions to release its first issue with an April cover. Though no specific date was given other than "March 2010" for the newsstand re-launch of Electronic Gaming Monthly, the press release detailed the "weekly interactive version of the magazine," named "EGMi: The Digital Magazine" (rolls right off the tongue!).

Accessed by a "special code" included with each issue, the digital extension of the magazine will be made up of "exclusive article extensions and original content." Also of note, game previews and reviews will make up at least part of the premiere issue, with notorious rumor-monger Quartermann, ex-EIC Dan "Shoe" Hsu (as previously announced), and prankster Sean "Seanbaby" Reiley all contributing content as well. Publisher and prez of EGM Media, Steve Harris, claimed the digital content "is complementary to the print magazine" and gives editors "a way to communicate with our readers and update the print product in an ongoing manner." We'll see how his claims play out when the magazine arrives this March.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/21/egm-relaunches-with-april-issue-explains-digital-content/

I'm still wondering who will head the magazine.
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Third on December 21, 2009, 07:48:28 PM: I'm still wondering who will read the magazine.

Let's hope for them it won't go down again.
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Rman on December 21, 2009, 07:50:53 PM: I had the free subscription for days. It was never my favorite gaming magazine, (GameFan-->Next Generation-->EDGE) but it made for good toilet reading.
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: ManaByte on December 21, 2009, 07:51:03 PM: (http://www.freewebs.com/willywill3/speng.jpg)
"Print is dead."
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: drew on December 21, 2009, 08:09:45 PM: god damnit
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 21, 2009, 08:10:17 PM: Quote from: Rman on December 21, 2009, 07:50:53 PM
I had the free subscription for days. It was never my favorite gaming magazine, (GameFan-->Next Generation-->EDGE) but it made for good toilet reading.

That's funny, because GameFan was essentially only good for substituting for toiler paper.
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: chronovore on December 21, 2009, 08:35:15 PM: I'd read it for Seanbaby. That guy cracks me up.
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Rman on December 21, 2009, 08:52:28 PM: Quote from: Вiff Кoммiёslaуer on December 21, 2009, 08:10:17 PM
Quote from: Rman on December 21, 2009, 07:50:53 PM
I had the free subscription for days. It was never my favorite gaming magazine, (GameFan-->Next Generation-->EDGE) but it made for good toilet reading.

That's funny, because GameFan was essentially only good for substituting for toiler paper.
Their writing wasn't the best, much like most gaming rags at the time. But it had the best import coverage out there.
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 21, 2009, 09:11:06 PM: Quote
Accessed by a "special code" included with each issue, the digital extension of the magazine will be made up of "exclusive article extensions and original content."

That's gonna go over big.
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: duckman2000 on December 21, 2009, 09:36:31 PM: I'm sure this little break will have sufficiently washed away the rotten stains with waves of the purest nostalgia.

:piss EGM :piss2
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: pilonv1 on December 21, 2009, 10:19:52 PM: who could care
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Sho Nuff on December 21, 2009, 10:20:30 PM: But will Whippinsean be appeased?

GIVE IT TO THE MAGAZINES, BOB CAJUN!

[youtube=560,345]OLlRp-WTREM[/youtube]
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 21, 2009, 10:22:33 PM: WHIP WHIP!
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Sho Nuff on December 21, 2009, 11:52:37 PM: I share Whippinseans opinion on the inexplicably unfunny Hsu & Chan

minus the racist parts of course
Title: Re: EGM relaunching in March 2010.
Post by: Yeti on December 22, 2009, 01:39:12 AM: I had a couple years worth of free subscriptions, are they going to honor those? :lol