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EGM Relaunches In March 2010

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:20:53 +0000

Magazine racks will be falling over with joy next March when video game print publication Electronic Gaming Monthly officially returns to bookstores and beyond. The all-new but still familiar EGM has inked a deal with Time/Warner to handle marketing and sales.

Announced last year, the new Electronic Gaming Monthly will be lead by publisher Steve Harris, one of the original mag’s founders. Joining Harris will be former EGM and 1UP regulars, Dan “Shoe” Hsu, Demian Linn, Seanbaby, Ryan O’Donnell and Matt Chandronait.

The April issue—yes, still due in March—will feature a special code for a copy of the electronic version of Electronic Gaming Monthly, known as EGM[i]: The Digital Magazine.

EGM Might Be Back By December

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:30:00 +0000

It’s been a rollercoaster few months for readers of former flagship gaming mag EGM. First it died, then we heard it’d be coming back… differently, and now owner Steve Harris has announced a tentative return date.

“Plans put in motion today for EGM to return on December 1…”, he posted on his Twitter account earlier today. Now, these are plans. Not a concrete, definitive announcement.

Also, we still don’t know what guise the mag will be back in! Surely there’ll still be a tangible, proper magazine forming the cornerstone of EGM’s output, but Harris’ previous comments on “fully transportable” content have us more interested in that than some bound pieces of paper.

[Steve Harris @ Twitter]

It’s EGM, But Not As You Know It

Luke Plunkett — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Electronic Gaming Monthly died, then was risen. But when it makes its eventual return, it won’t be in any form, shape or guise you’re used to.

Owner Steve Harris says:

First and foremost, we’re planning to incorporate digital content within the magazine. This includes professionally-produced video, audio and other types of content. We’re also going to make this content fully transportable. … There’s now a heightened consumer interest in the transportability of information and using applications to do things like read content on an iPhone. We benefit not only from the technology but from the consumer’s willingness to use it. The new Electronic Gaming Monthly will let you take your magazine and its content from print to computer to wireless devices — even to your television — as well as enable subscribers and single-copy purchasers to enhance that experience every step of the way. We are embracing that reality [and] will enable it and encourage it.

So you pay for the “mag”, and in return receive content that can be read (or watched, or listened to) across multiple formats. Interesting. Very interesting.

Big Hints at EGM’s Future [Bitmob]

Electronic Gaming Monthly To Return

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:40:11 +0000

EGM is dead. Long live EGM! The struggling game magazine that shut down in January after nearly twenty years in print is returning later this year, courtesy of Electronic Gaming Monthly founder Steve Harris.

According to an announcement, Harris has acquired publishing rights and trademarks to EGM, with plans to restart the print publication in the second half of this year.

Harris calls the relaunch of Electronic Gaming Monthly a “welcome opportunity to continue delivering quality content to gaming enthusiasts,” saying the new EGM team has “exciting plans for the evolution of what will once again be a leading independent voice for the gaming community.”

The mag has the enthusiastic, but not necessarily financial backing of Ziff Davis.

“We are pleased that EGM is now in the hands of its original creator, Steve Harris, and wish him and the publication the best of success in the future,” says Ziff CEO Jason Young.

The press release states that we’ll hear more about the new EGM at next week’s E3 expo. For now, a placeholder site featuring the announcement, with links to the resuscitated mag’s Twitter and Facebook accounts resides at EGMnow.com.

“ELECTRONIC GAMING MONTHLY” FOUNDER EXECUTES CONTRACT TO ACQUIRE PRINT AND ONLINE PUBLISHING RIGHTS TO EGM MAGAZINE [EGM]