Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM ) is an American video game magazine being re-launched by EGM Media, LLC. It was previously published by Ziff Davis as part of the 1UP Network and released 12 issues a year (and an occasional extra "13th" issue for the Christmas season, also known as the "Smarch" issue, a reference to an episode of The Simpsons ).
EGM has concentrated on news regarding current video game consoles (see magazine content for detailed information). The December 2006 issue introduced new sections, expanded reviews, and more focus on the acronym of the magazine's title in a redesign. This was the first issue redesign since June 2003. EGM has said that the reason for the design shift was to keep more in line with the site layout of their once-owned website, 1up.com. In 1994, EGM spawned EGM2 . EGM 2 focused on expanded cheats and tricks (i.e. with maps and guides). The spin-off publication eventually became Expert Gamer , and finally the defunct GameNOW .
Publication of EGM was suspended on January 6, 2009, following the acquisition of the online element of the 1UP network by Hearst Corporation. It was announced that the January 2009 issue would be the final issue of EGM . On May 29, 2009, EGM founder Steve Harris announced that he has acquired print and online publishing rights for the magazine and plans to relaunch it in the second half of 2009.
Staff
Writers for the magazine included founder Steve Harris, long-time editor-in-chief Ed Semrad, Martin Alessi, Ken Williams (Sushi-X), "Trickman" Terry Minnich, Andrew "Cyber-Boy" Baran (who passed away in 2009), Danyon Carpenter, Marc Camron (later Director of Operations), Joe Funk (later Editorial Director), Mark "Candyman" LeFebvre, Todd Rogers, Mike Weigand a.k.a Major Mike (now Managing Editor at GamePro ), Al Manuel, Howard Grossman, Mark "Mo" Hain, Mike Vallas, Jason Streets, Ken Badziak, Scott Augustyn, Dave Ruchala, former 1 UP network Editorial Director Dan Hsu (aka "Shoe"), James Mielke, artist Jeremy "Norm" Scott, Shawn "Shawnimal" Smith, West Coast Editor Kelly Rickards, John Davison, Kraig Kujawa, Dean Hager, and Mark Macdonald (who later went on to become director of Gamevideos.com before leaving Ziff-Davis).
Personalities featured in the magazine included gossip columnist "Quartermann," (or Q-Man or The Q) originally penned by Steve Harris and assisted by Ed Semrad, Danyon Carpenter, Andrew Baran and Chris Johnston. Near the end of EGM' s original run, Quartermann had been penned by former editorial director John Davison and executive editor Shane Bettenhausen. Many items from the column have indeed come to fruition (such as the impending announcement of a competing game console by Microsoft, which eventually became the Xbox), though many have not ( Panzer Dragoon sequel on the Dreamcast). Controversy followed the magazine in April 2000 when the column speculated on a port of Metal Gear Solid (PS1) for the Dreamcast, with many gaming news outlets (including international ones) taking this as fact and reporting it as their own, leading to a virtual scolding by the columnist a month after for this practice.
Another long-time personality is Seanbaby who penned the "Rest of the Crap" section found at the end of the magazine. The column reviewed poor-quality games or included more unorthodox columns and lists. Favorite targets included the "Barbie" games, as well as games based on the TV show That's So Raven , cosplayers, and those who frequent gaming tradeshow E3.
Perhaps the most infamous personality was "Sushi-X", a pseudonym for a reviewer (and, at times, someone who had a mini-letters section) who was modeled after Taco-X of the multi-panel review team of the Japanese publication Famitsu, which inspired EGM' s own review style. A supporter of fighting games ( Street Fighter in particular) and detractor of RPGs and portable systems, Sushi-X was originally David Siller in the early years and then taken over by Ken Williams for almost a decade.
After Ken's departure the moniker was used by several people through the years until phased out by Ziff Davis as a "maturing" of the magazine; initially, the magazine did seem to have planned to have another fictional character, Elephant Sak (or E-Sak) which was the name of a character by the editors from the game WWF Attitude created to take over Sushi-X. The magazine teased the audience with a highlighted silhouette of the character in the photo box as the next reviewer in the issues from the last half of 1999. This never came to fruition.
Late-term "mascots" for the magazine included a Space Invaders alien, which acted as an anchor to any written work in the mag as well as symbolizing reactions from games from E3 ("Awesome", "Terrible", etc.). Additionally, there was also a robot handed out as a trophy for their yearly awards as well as an award named after Tobias Bruckner from Turok: Evolution , which was given as dubious honors to the worst aspects of the past year in gaming.
Contributing editors Scott Steinberg and Hal Halpin alternate monthly columns related to business and political/cultural issues, respectively.
Magazine content
During its initial run, EGM featured news coverage on current video game consoles, the most recent focus being on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii consoles. It also covered the portable gaming systems Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, in addition to reviews and previews for the games released on the aforementioned consoles. Computer games were more prominent in earlier days, but, by the end of the first era, were just occasionally mentioned, as these were the territory of EGM's discontinued sister publication, Games for Windows: The Official Magazine . Cell phone games had also seen coverage in the magazine as well, though this was rare.
The first issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly came out in the summer of 1989, featuring Mega Man 2 as its cover story. The third issue famously featured a then-obscure Fabio on the cover for the game Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II and yet another issue featured Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk in Issue 23, promoting the game based on the movie of the same name, along with Jean-Claude Van Damme reprising his role as Colonel Guile to promote Street Fighter: The Movie on the cover of Issue 75.
After the editorial, the magazine began with the letters section, followed by Press Start, which included newsbits, previews of upcoming games, and developer interviews. This was then followed by their features for the month (including the cover story), then the review section. The issue ended with more light-hearted fare such as Seanbaby's "Rest of the Crap", Jeremy "Norm" Scott's "The Adventures of Hsu and Chan" comic (which stopped appearing in EGM after August 2008 to continue on 1Up.com), and a transcript of a debate on a current topic, among others.
Until 2005, the magazine also had a cheats and tricks section named "Tricks of the Trade", originally ran by Terry "Trickman" Minnich and proceeded by David Hodgson in the early 2000s.
Issues from the early 1990s also featured heavy coverage on arcade games and international games (particularly from Japan and Europe), complete with full previews and hints and tricks, although this had been scaled back in recent years to a single page for the international section, with the Arcade Action section essentially defunct. Similarly, a more "general entertainment" section rounded out the magazine at this period of time as well, including reviews of comic books, movies, and gadgets.
Throughout much of its initial publication, the magazine had included multiple covers (including the South Park issue, as well as the Kingdom Hearts II intro issue, the Xbox 360 intro, the 200th issue, the Gears of War issue), and the Super Smash Bros. Brawl issue), mini-posters for then-current games with the newsstand issues, as well as occasional one-page extras such as alternate game box cover art slips and calendars for such titles as Jade Empire and God of War .
Occasionally, the magazine also left secret messages in their writing, deciphered by combining the first letters found in every sentence in a paragraph. For the most part, the messages were simple ones such as "EGM Rules", although rumor has it that the messages sometimes took pot-shots at their competitors and non-favored game companies. For a while during the later run, a picture of a chimpanzee with yellow flowers in its hand was placed in one photo per issue. When one reader brought this up in a mail section, the editors sarcastically responded that he should "lay off the drugs". They had also embedded funny slogans or sayings in the last lines of fine print publishing info towards the end of the magazine.
From October 2004 to January 2005 (and including 2004's "Smarch" issue), the magazine included DVDs with newsstand issues, which gained both positive and negative feedback. Positive feedback was mostly received for having plenty of features and interesting bonus material, like a Seanbaby video diary of E3, clips of the top upcoming games, desktop wallpapers, MP3s by game-inspired artists, and exclusive or rare episodes of internet phenom Red vs. Blue . Negative feedback was also received for increasing the price of newsstand issues including the DVDs, as well as not being available with subscriber issues. The latter point was also a consistent complaint about the mini-posters, although posters were incl
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