It’s EGM, But Not As You Know It

EGM was at its best under Harris, but I'm not liking this idea.

KaneRobot

It is about time that Sendai Publications came back to life!

Personally, I felt that EGM were best under the hands of Harris, Semrad, and others (some of whom played the roles of "Sushi-X", "Quarterman" and "Terry Aki".)

With the fall and rebirth of EGM (and it's smart approach to multi-integrated media - MIM) , the direction of EGM will probably be familiar with those of us that remember the original roots of the magazine from it's days in Illinois (read: Not the Ziff-Davis era), the advent of writer-personalities (that didn't feel like GamePro's knockoffs -- Sushi-X Versus Slasher Quan)

At the same time, the integration of other mediums attract Kotakuites, Joystiqers, and other newer gaming readers, while potentially attracting the X-Play crowd as well.

I see this as a win, for both the gaming affectionado, and Steve Harris.

Soldier_CLE : The Wrath of PONG

@avconsumer2: Always happy to oblige. :D

Okay, m-hmm...

So what do I get if I subscribe to EGM? An iPod Shuffle?

Partner up with PSN!

@sunpop:

Orange box also had good games in it >>

@Pornosaur:

Well yeah orange box had good dames in it and halo 3 was just bad

ARISE EGM'IMUS PRIME!

Ehhhhhhh. EGM stopped being cool about 1997 or so. Hopefully their comeback is worth it.

ViolentSpank24

@Ghetto Cornetto: Though I knew and hoped it would be here, you sir, have single handedly restored my faith in humanity. Not only the first comment, but in perfect phonetic form as well. I rofl'd my face off. Thank you sir. Thank... you.

@ShadowOdin isn't american: I know I sounded like a jerk, but it was entirely unintentional. I agree with you, though. The internet doesn't care if you're clever. They just want you to say something quick and (usually) dirty that will give 'em a laugh. It's a shame, really...

@VergessenHeld: Sue ZD, leave new EGM ALONE!

@turkish101: I moved on to Giant Bombcast & the Out of The Game podcasts. Both are really awesome... now it looks like I'll have one more.

I gave up on 1UP, no use to stay around when everyone else goes.

@Dreyvas: Hell no. That guy was so pretentious and over exaggerates everything.

@VergessenHeld: How can they? I don't think they own the subscription list. I think. And don't forget that this is NOT Ziff Davis. That is the company that owes you a EGM subscription, not Steve Harris.

@Alucrid: They gave you maxim in place of EGM?

You'd think they'd give you something at least somewhat video game related. Like playboy or something.

@TotalF***ingDouchebag: Yup.

A real announcement would have just said "we're relaunching the magazine, but hope to have a lot of extra content on websites and portable devices."

This reads like the press release for the Phantom.

greyseal

@nospacesinmyname: Agree with you of course I read it since it was black and white and told you how to get 255 lives in ThunderBlade arcade. EGM was strong right up till the end. Loved how they gave "Orange Box" game of the month over Halo 3. You think OXM is going to do that? Quaterman lives

Pornosaur

@AnalysisDialysis (and a MudkipNDS): I guess I lost it.
I feel like stopping to try and cheer people up through zany activities and cleverly written posts, because it doesn't seem they are appreciated.

@UndeadManWalking: Sorry, it's because in my language the words translate into the same thing and I got them mixed up in ages past.

Sooo, it's just like the PS3zine and 360zines?

@ShadowOdin isn't american: I'm a graphic designer, but I really like the term "graphical design." Can I use it? I'll credit you every time I do.

Yay, EGM !!!!
Please have former editor-in-chief Ed Semrad come back
as guest editor. That would be nice ^_^

+ Watch video

I don't really care what they do I will be signing up for a subscription regardless. When I read this earlier from Steve Harris's post on Facebook I got so excited. It feels like they're doing what print needs to do in still sticking to what it knows by doing the magazine while at the same time embracing digital media. It will be interesting to see how it all comes out in the end and what impact it will have on other print publishers.

Billy Brown

Maybe I can get them to stop sending me Maxim so that I can get the rest of my EGMs.

Will it replace Maxim?

@Carl Carlson: Or, just read somewhere besides the toilet. Like most normal people.

Ferkner

@Ghetto Cornetto: MAWWAGE!

@ShadowOdin isn't american: What happened to your star!? :O

@andrewwyatt: You need to learn the magic of the "squat and surf"

Carl Carlson

Thank god it's being brought back in some form, when EGM was canceled I cried for the first time in about 20 years. (Masculinity kicks in) I mean, internally of course... hehe

Aidan Dammermann

Just put the videos directly into the magazine. Remember those paper-thin disposable video screens that all of the tech sites raved about some years ago? Why aren't those being used yet? (Never mind the fact that you'd be paying $199 an issue...)

How very Kindle like of them. I'm happy I own an iPhone.

ademu

@moominsean:

No there is a print mag.

MooglesInMyFace

EGM might as well drop the "M" then. See the problem with making a content rich digital style "magazine" is that there are tens of thousands of them that already exist. You are reading one right now!! On top of that linking it with a magazine leads to great hits on the site but poor sales of the mag. (See makezine.com for a prime example of how having a nice website will actually PREVENT people from buying the magazine.) Also the problem with a gaming magazine in print form is that thanks to the internet, anything in the lines of reviews, previews and news will be horribly outdated by the time it hits newsstands.

So the solution is to let the gaming magazine die a quck and merciless death.

And just for the record the ONLY gaming magazine to ever be anything more than a guide for looking up cheat codes was Nintendo Power. That was back in the day though. Today the medium is obsolete.

HowardC

@moominsean:

no, you can buy it in stores

SaanZ

@odinkorn:

I hated and disagreed with alot of their reviews and never used them as a purchasing guide... but they were fairly honest and they had alot of character in their reviews with the three person thing going.

It was the most entertaining game magazine and if its like I remember, worth buying.

Game Informer used to be decent but it lost about all of its good staff.

I am glad EGM is back

SaanZ

Good to see they're trying something new. If you can't adapt then you'll sink in today's market.

ctorrans

No, thats some other mag with the EGM name. Wheres MY EGM

@WalkOnWater: Agreed.

If the editorial content is there, I'll be subscribing.

@Erwin: Erwin, I nub noo.

liquidnumb

@UncleMark: I don't even see how that'd be an issue. Take your PSP to the toilet, there you go.

RawSteelUT

Wow...anyone want to bet how long it lasts? 3 Issues? 2?

tommyscomics

@deanbmmv: Ouch that...just ouch. What did they...ouch. How could ANYONE want to read that? It's so terrible. Clutter everywhere, moving objects, buttons...you don't even know what things are buttons.

It's absolutely outrageous. I can see them getting away with it because it is a new market, but damn, they do every design-flaw known to man for the sake of making everything "flashy" and "cool"

And then things starts shining, moving in irregular intervals, and all having different intervals, which annoy your eyes.

And no consistency! It's like the idea of people knowing it is just one magazine they are looking through is nonexistant. There's colors everywhere, cluttering, and fonts, which along with the flashing and the moving makes things LESS readable.

Then there's the fact you can't make apart what are adds and what are actual articles.

Videos, great idea. Not so when they start by themselves and feature a bloke who keeps jumping around more than Mario did in the credits to the Super Mario Show. Yes, the one with real life actors.

Sorry, but in all my years of studying and doing graphical design, that is one of the worst examples of anything I've ever seen.
I put it on par with a website with clearly visible tables and cluttered with gif-animations and things that follow your mouse-pointer

@Evdor:

I agree. They need better editorial content these days. I love reading anything by Jeremy Parish, but most of his good stuff can be found on his personal site, gamespite.net or the more recent Retro Blog on 1up.

turkish101

Im impressed with myself for knowing where each of the above comments are from

Sounds like a lot of unnecessary garbage. I buy magazines because that is what they are you can hold them in your hands smell the paper and ink and just relax while flipping pages....

Not to stare at yet more monitors. Not to mention we have all the digital magazines we want it's called the internet and it's free.

billysan

Did their final issue ever get released online? The SF4 one that they had finished but never had printed? Mielke said it would be released online, but that was months ago.

megahurtz

@Evdor: I tend to find that mag's have a bit more info in than sites like Kotkau. Web news is faster, but mag articles tend to be more in-depth. Also magazines tend to be a bit more respected than blog sites like Kotaku (they are building steam though) so Mags tend to go get interviews with game developers, go to the studios etc. Hence why a fair chunk of SE news is what was mentioned in Famitsu n not from the horses mouth.
one of my old housemates has a sub to a game magazine (can't remember what, "Game Developer" would probably be a safe bet) that was more for developers n students, which had alot of articles that wouldn't ever appear on Koaktu mainly cos they were just a bit too technical and not really what Kotaku visitors are interested in, cos we are more consumers of games.

Will this be like GI's Unlimited content?

user_21938

@Calvin: Firstly - You don't have a Pc in your toilet? You living in the stone age or something? Bet you don't even have a basement to live in :P

Secondly expect somethign simialr to this - [issue.igizmo.co.uk]
It's an experimental magazine by a UK publisher.
You still get the mag layout, but unlike a paper mag it has little countdown clocks, videos n various other bits n bob's, quite cool, just not massively huge, and not really many full scale articles. it's also got a lot of ad's on it, but then these guys ain't charging for this, so the ad's pay for their experiment.
So expect the digital side of this to be similar, cos paper based mag's can't have the latest game trailers, proper links to websites etc. And it would work fairly well in an iPhone App layout.

@ShadowOdin isn't american: Don't get me started! Long comments are one thing, but how about inane chatter and pointless comments. Like just today I はTWITTERの口座をサインアップしたばかり。本当に人気があるらしいんですが、なぜTWITTERをサインアップしたか知りませんよ。かっこいいそいうでしょう。。。そ言うことは、ひとつ質問がある。"今、何をしているんですか。"１４０字返事です。もっとだめなジャンクでしょうね。。。人間はぜんぜんきがすみませんと思います。いつも新しいおもちゃがいたいんですけど、僕もきがとがめる分だけですよ。とにかく、まだ何か書きません。

以上！

It's all useless!

@MCWHAMMER:

Yeah, the current 1up/EGM crew... kinda sucks now. Except for Parish and a scant few others.

turkish101

I just hope its not a corporate whore that the old EGM was, that mag hadnt been worth a shit since the late 90's. Only reason I kept getting it is due to some glitch on there end I guess cause I got the mag for like 5 years without ever paying for it.

But if its just digital format then they can forget it. I can read from any number of gaming sites and see videos and trailers for free already.

@Jambi_Bum: I say I WAS a Microsoft hater. I also used to be a Nintendo fanboy. People change.

@stupid_mcgee: uber pyro > flaming hunter ([k]): Man, listen to the crowd! Your comment is simply too long. We can't have that. People who write long comments are the scum of the earth, I tell ya.

Especially when Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam commodo imperdiet ante, at mollis eros suscipit at. Maecenas diam ipsum, volutpat sit amet faucibus sit amet, eleifend ut arcu. Etiam massa purus, luctus et pellentesque vitae, pretium non nulla. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Donec ac enim nibh. Aenean ac nunc odio. Donec tincidunt rhoncus nulla, vitae sollicitudin ligula vestibulum a. Cras ac mi metus, vel aliquet metus. Suspendisse nec justo ut massa egestas gravida fermentum in ipsum. Donec sodales lorem ac ipsum aliquet mollis. Morbi feugiat, diam non malesuada lobortis, elit odio auctor mi, et mollis libero lacus et velit. Etiam vel commodo tellus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean ac ultricies dolor. Pellentesque sollicitudin dapibus lectus, a convallis nisi mollis ut. Curabitur tempus diam urna, vel pretium dolor. Nullam quis libero nec enim tempor dapibus vitae sit amet ligula.

I hope you understand, because we can't have it like this!

Sincerely,
/Jack Thompson, CEO of Linguistics

Cool. Can I get my subscription back then? I REALLY don't care to receive Maxim every month in place of EGM. And I damn well better get the issues that I DIDN'T receive while they were arranging this because I didn't get anything from January to May when my first Maxim arrived.

I swear if they don't give me my leftover subscription, I'll never subscribe to their magazine again.

@Evdor: You can't charge me for news. I'll get that from Kotaku.

I would pay for some well-researched articles about the gaming industry, (e.g. an article on the differences in game design between Western and Eastern games).

AncientUnknown1

@Calvin: Only for those with the attention span of a chicken.

Communist Pope

Soooo, in other words...

EGM is still dead to me. Way to kill off print, bastards.

so they are pretty much screwing themselves doing this since people will just rip the audio/video/digital versions of it

no one is going to pay for it, i mean sure.. i guess super loyal fans will but anyone with half a brain will just look at the content for free as it should be we should have to pay to see pictures that we can see on a billion game sites or stories that broke out a month before printed in the magazine.

styl3s

@Calvin:

iPod Touches are great shitter reads.

ryno365

Since EGM went away, my poop time has become less enjoyable. I am happy to see that I will soon be able to enjoy EGM on my iPhone while I poop at work! :)

xibis

"professionally-produced video" huh
yeaaaaa good luck with that.Your professional video producers are now "Area 5"

@Calvin: You and your friends must have some stunning conversations then if you think his comment is long.

@stupid_mcgee: uber pyro > flaming hunter ([k]): Should be interesting to see what becomes of it. Unfortunately the one thing that came to my mind was price. How much do they plan on charging for something like this? It seems quite ambitious.

Hm. I don't know how I feel about this know. Does this mean we get some crappy 24-page print edition, that will direct us to next month's features we can check out online or on our mobile? I want the old EGM back. Print will die if we let it die with lack of content.

Former EGM E-I-C Dan Hsu had some insight into the new EGM recently: [www.thatvideogameblog.com]

HibikiRush

@Evdor: Or at least the Seanbaby of video games! What was loveable about the old EGM was its writers and editorial voice. The new EGM is only a name. Will they make an attempt to hire the Mielkes, the Bettenhausens, the Seanbabies? To me, this is like the comeback of Atari. It doesn't mean anything until we see results.

i think that means no paper mag...just various digital formats.

@stupid_mcgee: uber pyro > flaming hunter ([k]):
People who posts long comments like you kill conversations did you know that?

@UncleMark: You say you're a Microsoft hater and yet you call EGM biased? Nicely done sir.

@Dreyvas: OROROROROR, FREE HAT!

Man, this might be awesome as heck. I grew up on EGM, i even own the first copy of playstation mag. This is some sweet news :D

This is mounting more and more the to amamzing,

Lets hope theres the audience

Scotsdale

@UncleMark: oh noes magazine has own opinion run like you stole something!

So it's gonna be sort of like Qore.

Wow, seems like the subscription is going to get even more expensive.

But I guess it is for the best, rather than combat electronic journalism incorporate it. As long as I get my paper magazine back I'm good.

@spannu: Ya wookin pa nub in all da wong paces.

So can I trade in that shitty Maxim subscription that replaced my old EGM and get this instead...?

Alucrid

@Calvin: You don't have something big enough to read print on the toilet? WTF is that supposed to mean? It's still going to be a full magazine, they're just going to bundle extra stuff with it.

I would assume that you register an account and then input codes for individual magazines or, if you have a subscription, the content is automatically unlocked as long as your subscription lasts.

This is a good format and fully embraces both the versatility of print and the ease-of-access and multimedia richness that internet and mobile media provide. This is a great strategy and is something that newspapers should bee glancing an eye towards.

stupid_mcgee: uber pyro > flaming hunter ([k])

@excel_excel: I'll have to look through the issues again for any specific examples, but they just seemed to have the hots for the Xbox. I don't know, maybe I just felt that way because I was a bit of a Microsoft hater at the time, and I thought they criticized the other systems more than the 360. Still, I liked the magazine over all and I'm glad to see it being revived.

@fronsac: What if I end up pushing it off WITHOUT my hands? Sometimes bathrooms are more useful for other things bra.

@WalkOnWater:

I feel ya, bro.
This is gonna be the beginning of a great relationship between Gamers and Businessmans, and Technology.

Firelance

I am more surprised that Hsu, Donahoe, Ford and others all have a website at Bitmob.com. It's too hard to keep up these days.

Have to check out their podcast sometime.

@WalkOnWater: Exactly. It's nice to see that someone in the business world seems to get it.

stupid_mcgee: uber pyro > flaming hunter ([k])

@UncleMark: Yeah seriously, what the fart are you talking about!?

murderface_

@UncleMark: I didn't mean to respond to your comment! Now that just seems completely random!

@Firelance: I loled

Bring back Shoe, please.

@UncleMark: How so??

@Calvin:
You should, it keeps your lap warm during #2. :p

fronsac

@Calvin:

Just put a desktop in teh bathroom.
It's cheap. Just moving some stuff.
Then you can poop while you post.
...
Fine, that was bad.

Firelance

@WalkOnWater: Sheesh! All of these terlet comments make me feel like a weirdo for not reading my gaming mags on the toilet.

@ToastyUterus: Too. Much. Work.

What a bunch of marketing-speak bullshit. I'd love to know where the money's coming from to enhance, embrace, enable, and encourage this bold enterprise.

Hmm. Kindle compatibility?

I'm still not sure about that thing...

The Forgetful Brain

I had a free subscription to EGM a while ago. It was pretty cool, but I didn't like the slight 360 bias. It wasn't too bad, but they seemed to like it better that PS3.

@Calvin: it just means you get the magazine, then use codes to get it on digital formats

The million dollar question is: What will they do to make me pay for their digital content in the same virtual space I can receive very similar content from anything from Kotaku to Escapist to more ad-driven drivel like IGN? Unless they have the Mark Twain of video games doing content for them...

Evdor

As long as there's a print version, I'll be happy.

Very cool new approach to game magazines. Looking forward to it. :)

MooglesInMyFace

Always did love EGM, I can't wait for this.

I'm so happy EGM is coming back! I miss their reviews, stories, and ESPECIALLY the Rumor Mill. I just hope they do stick with print in some way. I don't have an iPod touch, and I'm not dragging my laptop to the can.

@spannu: Good luck storming the castle!

See, THIS is how print should be moving into the digital age. Embracing techniques for viewing content, not shunning them!

@Ghetto Cornetto: That onwy hapwens with wove; twue wove.

spannu

-1.
I don't have something big enough to read print on the toilet and I'm NOT buying a laptop. ):

EEEEEE cant wait! I've always felt they had the most true to my personal feelings reviews

WISE FWUM YO GWAVE!

The fact that I'm reading about a paper magazine struggling to get into the digital video game news delivery system AT a digital video game news delivery website is so meta it makes my head hurt.

that's a little disappointing; I always liked reading magazines on the john, and this new format will probably make me drop my phone in the toilet.

RedLupo

@WalkOnWater:
But computer magazine have been doing this already....in the form of disc/CD (package with the mag) that included content such as programs, video, audio, etc.