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As you may know, yesterday UGO/Hearst purchased Ziff Davis' 1UP gaming sites, including 1up.com, gamevideos.com, MyCheats.com and GameTab.com with plans to fold them into UGO's gaming network.
Casualties of the merger include long-published gaming mag Electronic Gaming Monthly and more than 30 employees.
Like many gamers, you may be angry that your favorite site, podcast or magazine is either gone or under new management. But in a post on insider gaming forum NEOgaf, Sam Kennedy, the (still employed) editorial director of 1UP, urges the internet's gamers to consider the merger reasonably and to understand both sides of a complicated issue as opposed to flaming UGO, the perceived "bad guy" in the situation. We'll see how that goes...
To paraphrase Kennedy's post: Ziff Davis was bankrupt and 1UP was not doing well. No one other than UGO/Hearst stepped up to take over 1UP. "The reality of the market was that no company, including UGO, was willing to sustain 1UP as it was" so the cuts were very painful but necessary to the survival of 1UP. Everyone, including UGO, was bummed out at the situation, but it's a rough world.
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THE VERDICT by Sports Legends
Seems pretty logical, but my guess is the internet will turn it into a hero/villain situation somehow. Let's hope everyone who was let-go lands at an even cooler gig than working for 1UP.
Seems pretty logical, but my guess is the internet will turn it into a hero/villain situation somehow. Let's hope everyone who was let-go lands at an even cooler gig than working for 1UP.
