Wednesday 7 January 2009

RIP - EGM & 1up

Very sad news for fans of video game journalism yesterday -

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/06/assessing-the-damage-at-1up/

UGO has purchased the 1up network fired most of the staff, closed down EGM and all 1up podcasts.

As a long time EGM subscriber, and huge fan of everything 1up. This news is like loosing a friend. Good luck to all those that lost their jobs. And to UGO, go FUCK yourself!

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah Been following this for a couple of days now. Most of the staff laid off were not aware of the situation until the last minute.
It sucks big time as the 1up yours and 1up FM were 2 of my fave podcasts.

on a happier note the 1up FM and retronaughts crew all banded together and released the first episode of rebel FM

Heres the rss feed.
http://rebelfm.libsyn.com/rss
Check it out it give an insite as to what happened among other things.

2:03 am  
Blogger Lee Swain said...

Thanks dude. I was actually listening to Rebel FM when I read your message.

I'm really going to miss EGM, The 1up SHow and Broken Pixels!

Where will I get my Seanbaby fix now?

8:50 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You may want to keep an eye on http://talkingorange.com/
It's a website the ex 1up show guys have set up.
No content yet, but it's only a matter of time ;)

11:43 am  
Blogger Lee Swain said...

Yeah I already threw some money their way :)

Hope they produce something decent and I'll send them some more money.

5:24 pm  

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