Executions and Stays Of

Ziff-Davis, the former-giant-now-troubled media company, sold off popular game news site 1UP to UGO, which I was shocked to learn still existed. UGO has since wasted no time getting to work on decimating 1UP's staff and laying waste to long-running print magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly, which will have its final issue printed this month. It's sad to see a publication like that go, which was my primary source of useless video game knowledge in the early-to-mid 90's, but I had not picked up an issue since being connected to the internet.

Also, in not-as-grim-but-still-grim-news, Midway has earned itself a stay of execution, and now has an extra month to pony up Two-hundred and forty million dollars.

-K.