1up Sold To Hearst, closes EGM, GameVideos.com and lays off well over half the staff.

This is one of the saddest things I’ve ever had to report here on Girth Industries. One of, if not the last reputable big time game journalism outlets has fallen to the corporate ax. The 1up Network of websites, which included 1up.com, Electronic Gaming Monthly Magazine, GameTab, GameVideos, MyCheats, and FileFront, has been [...]

GFW Magazine Ends Run, Editoral Staff Stays at 1up.

Sad news today in the world of PC gaming. One of the more prolific PC gaming enthusiast publications announced that it is shutting down publication for “business reasons”. I’m afraid it’s true, the magazine once known as Computer Gaming World (and more recently as Games For Windows: The Offical Magazine) has gone the [...]

Ziff Davis Media Files for Bankruptcy

via Game|Life
In a move that was to apparently aid in the “restructuring of the company and reduce its debt”, the parent company of the 1up Network and it’s printed publications, Electronic Gaming Monthly and Games For Windows Magazine, Ziff Davis Media Inc. filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York this last Wednesday. This [...]