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Traurige Nachrichten erreichen heute die Gamingwelt. 1up und EGM wurden verkauft. Während EGM wohl gänzlich untergehen wird, wurden bei 1up immerhin 30 Mitarbeiter in die Jobsuche entlassen. Was die Verluste von Leuten wie Ryan O'Donnell und Shane Bettenhausen für die Branche (und vor allem die 1up Show :x ) bedeuten kann sich ja jeder selbst ausmalen.




Copy & Paste von Kotaku:
What began as a rumour last month has now escalated into full-blown fact; Ziff Davis have officially sold the 1UP network to competitors Hearst, owners of UGO.com.

Hearst - who more importantly own many of the nation's biggest newspapers along with ownership stakes in ESPN and the History Channel - will however only be taking ownership of the network's online presence.

Which means long-running print magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly won't be along for the ride. This will be the last month the magazine is published, bringing to an end nearly two decades of independent, influential games editorial.

RIP, games magazines. Below is an email sent to Ziff employees by company CEO Jason Young earlier today, courtesy of Gamasutra:

Team:

We are announcing today the sale of our 1UP digital business to UGO Entertainment, a dvision of Hearst Corporation.

Over the course of the last 4 years we have built the 1UP sites into a top tier gaming digital destination. While our growth has been sharp, it has become apparent that more scale is necessary to effectively compete in this market segment.

We made the decision that the best path to putting our award winning 1UP brand and content in a more competitive position was to combine it with the operations of another publisher. We received much interest from other parties.

After a comprehensive process, this morning we completed a deal with Hearst Interactive, the owner and operator of UGO Entertainment. 1UP.com, MyCheats.com, Gamevideos.com, and Gametab.com will now all be part of the UGO Entertainment business. Many of our employees will travel with this business and become part of the UGO team.

With this transaction happening, we have also made the decision to discontinue publication of EGM. The January 2009 issue will be the final issue of the publication. With demand for print continuing to decline amongst both advertisers and readers and the content being produced by 1UP no longer available for use in the publication, it simply did not make sense for us to move forward with this business any longer.

We will continue to operate the Filefront business as a part of the PCMag Digital Network. In the coming months we will determine the best ways to leverage the scale and functionality of this digital property to expand our business position.

The Ziff Davis position in the gaming market has been significant and important to our company and the market itself. While many of our assets in the PCMag Digital Network (including Filefront now) will continue to cover this market, it's important that we celebrate all that we have achieved over the last 25 years.

Our leadership in print for decades with titles like Computer Gaming World and EGM which in turn translated into the build out of one of the leading digital gaming media assets in 1UP are prime examples of the skill, passion, and expertise of our teams.and what they achieved.

It's incredible to compare the 1UP.com of today versus that of 12 months ago. I want to thank everybody in our Game Group for their important contributions over the years.

For Ziff Davis Media, our attention and focus now shifts squarely to the PC Mag Digital Network. The proceeds from this transaction will be used to pay down debt. One of the primary objectives of our business plan is ensuring that we have plenty of room to service our debt obligations into the future, and manage for growth in what will be a challenging year in the advertising market.

While the market will be tough, we are confident our position is well aligned to where the demand is most active. We move forward as a 100% digital business with tenured brand position, and powerful capabilities to drive results for our customers. I look forward to sharing more updates in the coming weeks.

JY.

Interesting how he says "many" of their employees, not "all" of them.

Oh boy. Looks like the sale of 1UP to Hearst hasn't gone as smoothly as you'd expect. Rather than simply move house, it seems most of the site's most experienced/popular writers have instead been let go.

Looks like when Ziff CEO said "Many of our employees will travel with this business and become part of the UGO team", he actually meant "we're taking the interns and tea lady and that's about it".

According to twitter posts, GAF posts and phonecalls to MTV, around 30 staffers were let go today, including Skip Pfister, Ryan O'Donnell, Philip Kollar, Jay Fresh, Cesar Quintero, Nick Suttner, Anthony Gallegos, Matt Chandronait, Shane Bettenhausen and former EIC James Mielke.

Also cut were most of the Gamevideos.com team, as well as production of the 1UP Show.

Leaving, what, Sam Kennedy and Garnett Lee? That's a day of long knives if ever we've seen one.
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Es war ne gute Zeit. Ich hab die 1up Podcasts ca. 2 Jahre gehört. Manchmalhab ich mich geärgert, oft hab ich gelacht und manchmal fand ich's einfach Dumm was gesagt wurde, aber unterhalten war ich immer und das ist keine kleine Leistung.

IGN, Gamespot etc. ist für mich unhörbar. und Gamers wirh Jobs kann nicht alles ausgleichen, ist eh nicht so gut wie das Brodeo früher.

Farewell sag ich mal den Gefeuerten. :cry:
 
Gerade die 1Up Show (und der Podcast ;) ) waren extrem gut und professionell produziert. Da kommt imo erst einmal lange nichts. Man mag sich an der Meinung einiger Leute dort stören, aber wenigstens hatten sie einige Charkterköpfe und eine Meinung.
 
Als großer Fan der Podcasts kann ich leider auch nur sagen, dass sie jetzt eine große Lücke hinterlassen, die nur schwer zu füllen ist.
 
Wollen die denn jetzt die Seiten zusammenlegen. Also wenn man mal ins UGO Forum guckt, da schreibt kaum jemand was. Die haben wohl einfach nur Geld und nach einer Möglichkeit gesucht neue Benutzer zu bekommen. Wenn dann sollten sie lieber UGO schließen und 1up weiterbetreiben..
 
Mir scheint UGO hat gar keinen Plan, was 1Up ist. Sie haben genau den Grund gefeuert warum 1Up so beliebt ist - die Redakteure.

Das ist echt so 2008. Erstmal alle rausschmeissen und dann mit Gewinn wiederverkaufen. It's not gonna work, dudes. Das werden sie noch früh genug merken.
 
Garnet Lee scheint überlebt zu haben :P

Außerdm Podcasts gerettet?^^

to all the awesome tweets for us, thank you more than I can say, and yes, there will be future confirmation of weekends
Ein guter Videopodcast ist auch The totally Rad show. Allerdings gibt es hier auch andere Schwerpunkte wie Kinonews unnd reviews^^

Episode 94 - Pony Tail - NinjaTown, iPhone Games
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 - Run Time (01:02:55)

DL Links: MP3 l HD Quicktime l Large Quicktime l Large WMV l Large Xvid

Trotzdem sehr lohnenswert wie ich finde.

edit: Shane hatte schon seit gestern einen neuen Job gehabt^^
 
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oh man, ohne die 1up show wird mir echt was fehlen, gametrailers tv kommt nichtmal annähernd an die 1up show ran.

vor allem für die redakteure tuts mir echt leid, speziell wenn man die wirtschaftliche situation in amerika anschaut. die haben ja auch kein sozialsystem das sie auffängt
 
Oh Mann. Auch keine EGM mehr :( Versteh ich nicht wie man das alles aufgeben kann. Hätte doch den Preis erhöhen können oder noch mehr von 1up nehmen können. Aber einfach so aufgeben :shakehead:

Hab ich ja wohl Glück gehabt, dass mein ABO gerade ausläuft. Was wohl mit den Leuten passiert die gerade verlängert haben?
 
1UP Motarbeiter schlagen zurück :P

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http://www.eat-sleep-game.com/news/

Official Direct link : http://eat-sleep-game.com/podcasts/rebelfm01-07.mp3
Won’t you please welcome Anthony Gallegos, Nick Suttner, Philip Kollar, Matt Chandronait, Ryan O’Donnell, Jade Kraus, and me, as we bring you the opening salvo of Rebel.fm. It’s on, bitches.

PS: Yes, quality not so good for a lot of it, but bear with us. Things will be better next week. Promise. Even if we have to bring in a ringer to show us how it’s done.
 
Na immerhin, das ist ja ein Großteil der 1up FM Crew, den Podcast hab ich zuletzt eigentlich immer gehört. Die letzte Ausgabe schlummert sogar noch ungehört auf meinem ipod. Gleich mal den Rebel FM runterladen ;)
 
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