If you’ve been following the saga of the new EGM (the long-loved videogame magazine that was shuttered last January, only to be resurrected), here’s a nice new tidbit for you. Humor columnist Sean Reilly (Seanbaby himself) will join the new project. The best part? The old column “The Rest of the Crap” will again grace the print and digital pages of EGM.

Here’s a bit of fantastic news for fans of the long-loved (but shuttered) gaming mag Electronic Gaming Monthly. The magazine is slated for a resurrection, and the good folks at Bitmob (which is run by ex-EGM personalities like Dan Hsu and Demian Linn) are going to join forces with the new/old project.

Let’s take a quick break away from all the E3 2009 headlines for an uplifting story about death and resurrection. Last January (2008) the final issue of EGM magazine graced store shelves after 1UP was acquired by the Hearst Corporation. We all had a moment of silence to remember the legacy of the 20 year publication and marked it as another victim of a failing economy coupled with a growing irrelevance of print media.

Our weeping would be sort lived as almost five months later we learn EGM would be making its glorious return in the second half of 2009.

The magazine industry is notoriously tough to keep a publication afloat in, as evidenced by the end of Electronic Gaming Monthly. Magazines able to stay in print will have face another economic issue as two major distributors begin raising rates.

Folio reports that the distributor responsible for 20 percent of mass market magazine distribution has announced a 7 cents-per-copy increase on all copies distributed. In addition…

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…

I’m sure by now you’ve heard of Rebel FM, one of the very first spin-off podcasts from ex 1Up radio personalities. Now, there’s a second podcast from a few other folks who made the radio component of 1Up so special – The Geekbox. Starring Starring Ryan Scott, Karen Chu, Andrew Fitch, Greg Ford, Ryan Higgins, more »

Ah, the bittersweetness and sadness surrounding the death of Electronic Gaming Monthly (as was my – and so many gamers’ – favorite print magazine). Ex EGM editor-in-chief Dan Hsu (Shoe) and ex senior editor Crispin Boyer recently put up a long, hilarious reflection of the magazine’s ups and downs, from each of their 12-year tenures with the publication. Each of them left last year (perhaps they saw the writing on the wall…), and they’ve been commenting on the industry from their fantastic, no-holds-barred Sore Thumbs blog.

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…

We know that Ziff Davis, the company that owns sites including 1UP, MyCheats and Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine fell on some hard times recently. Speculation around the web says that UGO is planning to buy the 1UP Network along with most of its properties.

The fate of EGM is still uncertain but it doesn’t help ease our minds to find out that the December 2008 issue of EGM in Spanish, which features The Watchmen: The End is Nigh, will be the last issue.

Adrián Carbajal, the soon-to-be former editorial director of EGM en Español cited reasons for the magazine’s cancellation…

Ziff Davis has announced that PC Magazine will no longer exist in print. The publication has a 27 year legacy behind it but, alas, the digital era claims another print casualty. The final print issue of PC Magazine will be of January 2009. Simply put by Jason Young, chief executive of Ziff Davis, told The New York Times:

“The viability for us to continue to publish in print just isn’t there anymore”

When the New York Times asked Jason Young what the plans were for Electronic Gaming Monthly, also a Ziff Davis print publication, all they could extract is that Ziff Davis is considering it but won’t decide this year (2008)…