It’s been about a month since the epic closure of Electronic Gaming Monthly/the gutting of 1Up.com. You’ve heard of it, of course, if you spend any time at all reading gaming sites, but I’ll reiterate: 1Up was awesome, they had great editorial and a stable of truly excellent video/audio content. But their parent company (Ziff Davis) was bankrupt, and they sold the site to UGO (a Hearst property), and in the ensuing kerfluffle, most of the staff was laid off, the magazine was dead, and most of the audio/video shows were canned. Outrage ensued.

Well, here we are a month later.

You just can’t keep good game journalists down.

A little longer than one week ago we learned some former employees of 1UP would be starting their own online show that would pick up where the 1UP Show left off. They promised to reveal their new name and post the first show one week after announcing it.

After thousands of dollars worth of donations and some hard work the guys are back to form Area 5 and a new show called Co-OP.

The show is…

Here’s one piece of news I never could’ve predicted: the ever-so-opinionated 1Up/EGM editor Shane Bettenhausen has joined developer Ignition Entertainment after leaving 1Up. The super-knowledgeable (and uber-competitive) ex-journo will now be the Director of Business Development for the small developer/publisher (best known for the fairly awesome Mercury Meltdown titles). He’ll be making all sorts of high level decisions, including what games the company will publish, according to Go Nintendo.

Man, what a week to go on vacation. I returned back to the states yesterday, all rested from a nice little tropical getaway, and what do I find – that my favorite magazine of all time has been abruptly canned, along with a huge portion of the network that it was part of. I know that everyone has heard about the demise of Electronic Gaming Monthly, and about the massive firing of 1Up Network staff (among them, most of the people responsible for the phenomenal podcasts and video content on the site), a result of the network being bought by UGO (part of the Hearst company).

Some of the guys who were let go after 1UP was bought by UGO have banded together on Talking Orange in an effort to continue delivering gaming content.

Some of the guys there are those responsible for putting on the 1UP Show and participated in podcasts on the 1UP Network. They are determined to give back to the gaming community regardless of…

We are sorry to interrupt (or at least emotionally hijack) CES coverage but our earlier report about UGO acquiring the 1UP network has been officially confirmed.

Properties sold include: 1UP.com, Mycheats.com, Gametab.com and GameVideos.com. Filefront will reportedly become part of the PCMag Digital Network.

Unfortunately, however, things won’t be going over as smoothly as we first thought. Gamasutra got a hold of an internal email in which Ziff Davis CEO Jason Young says that “more scale is necessary to effectively compete in this market segment”.

To start with, Electronic Gaming Monthly, better known as EGM, will officially cease printing…

Joystiq is reporting through “multiple sources” that the UGO network is currently in “advanced talks” with Ziff Davis over the purchase of the 1UP network.

Neither 1UP, Ziff Davis, or UGO has yet to comment on the situation, so as of writing, Joystiq is our only source of information. The buyout will supposedly include websites 1UP, GameVideos and MyCheats. Meanwhile Electronic Gaming Monthly, the remainder of Ziff Davis’ gaming publications, and FileFront will probably not be…

Resistance 2 will be the latest game in the Playstation 3 library to benefit from Trophy support. These additions will permeate themselves through the game’s single-player and cooperative campaigns, along with its online multiplayer modes.

Courtesy of VG Chartz, a full list of achievements can be found after you click through…

Everyone who follows 1up and it’s impressive stable of podcasts (and the 1up show) is surely mourning the loss of Jeff Green – former Editor-in-Chief of Games For Windows Magazine and overall awesome games journalist. Green had been with the company 17 years, and he states in his farewell blog post that the closing of more »

The most recent issue of ThinkGeek catalog has been delivered and, as usual, it features several gamer goodies. Here’s a list of the more (and less) notable game-related goodies in the June 2008 ThinkGeek catalog.

On the more notable side there’s a programmable keyboard with mini OLEDs, Mario Kart slot cars, Halo 3 replicas and Zelda plush…