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Games for Windows Magazine Goes Online-only
by Aaron Linde, Apr 08, 2008 12:14pm PDTGames for Windows Magazine will be transitioning to an online-only publication format, the 1UP Network announced today.
Publisher Ziff Davis, which launched GFW in 2006 as a rebranding of the 25-year-old mag Computer Gaming World, cited the movement of readership to internet-based news sources as impetus for the closure. The final print issue of Games for Windows, April/May 2008, is on newsstands now.
"PC gamers and marketers have made the online space their home," said Ziff Davis CEO Jason Young. "There are 10 million 'World of Warcraft' subscribers, 15 million Steam users...It's a natural move for us to refocus our resources and talent to the online space, in order to reach the PC gaming community where it truly lives."
Ziff Davis, which owns and operates the 1UP Network and its publications, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month due to mounting debt totaling between $500 million and $1 billion. But 1UP Network content VP Simon Cox said that GFW's online-only transition had little to do with parent Ziff Davis' financial troubles.
"[The transition] has nothing to do with the Chapter 11 stuff," Cox wrote on his 1UP blog. "Both the eyeballs of PC gamers, and the essential advertising dollars needed to sustain a PC gaming magazine are moving online at an alarming pace...it was time to put the GFW team's efforts where the most people could see the results: Online."
Cox noted that while Games for Windows editors Jeff Green, Sean Molloy, Shawn Elliot and Ryan Scott will provide PC gaming coverage for the 1UP network, the magazine's art staff—Michael Jennings and Rosemary Pinkham—would not make the transition.
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seriously.
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He walked me out and said he was going to arrange a second interview for me as soon as possible. Awesome, I thought. I didn't hear back for a week. Typical, I thought. SF Bay Area is probably teeming with people who want the job. Then two weeks passed. Then three. I called the HR manager who'd arranged the interview and was informed that the position was "indefinitely on hold."
Then the Chapter 11 stuff broke.
Crap.
I'll be pouring one out for the magazine itself when I get home. I love holding an actual in-print publication in my hands, and CGW was always one of my favorites.
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Remember before the internet when magazines would come with a demo disc and that thing was the shit?
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I'll miss GFW a lot. Like most posting in this thread I have a stack in the bathroom. I really do consider it high praise that it's my go-to reading material whilst on the throne.
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This has everything to do with the fact that their market has moved and their current business model doesn't work any more.
It'll be interesting to see how far to toward the blog-news style that is so prevalent on the internet.
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Ok... exagerating... kinda.
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good luck to the team at GFW
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Fuck I just subscribed to this mag at the start of the year. I didn't know I had to research the financial stability of a magazine before I subscribed to it :(
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