<![CDATA[Kotaku: Ziff-davis]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Ziff-davis]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/ziff-davis http://kotaku.com/tag/ziff-davis <![CDATA[Electronic Gaming Monthly To Return]]> EGM is dead. Long live EGM! The struggling game magazine that shut down in January after nearly twenty years in print is returning later this year, courtesy of Electronic Gaming Monthly founder Steve Harris. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5273086&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[And On The Third Day, FileFront Was Risen]]> OK, it's been a bit longer than three days. But with Easter around the corner, it's somewhat apt, because just as everyone was done saying goodybe to FileFront, it's now back from the dead. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5194923&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Say Goodbye To FileFront]]> A popular online destination for the latest computer game demos, patches, and mods, FileFront has announced that come March 30th it will be no more. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5184106&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1UP Sold To Hearst Corporation, EGM To Close [Update]]]> What began as a rumour last month has now escalated into full-blown fact; Ziff Davis have officially sold the 1UP network to competitors Hearst, owners of UGO.com. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5124928&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mass Firings At 1UP After Sale]]> Oh boy. Looks like the sale of 1UP to Hearst hasn't gone as smoothly as you'd expect. Rather than simply move house, it seems most of the site's most experienced/popular writers have instead been let go. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5125034&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[UGO To Buy 1UP?]]> According to a report on Joystiq, the UGO Entertainment Network - and yes, they still exist - are in talks with Ziff Davis with an eye towards purchasing the 1UP network. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5106148&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Print Version Of EGM May Be On Its Way Out]]> Ziff Davis may shutter Electronic Gaming Monthly, according to Jason Young, CEO of the ailing publisher. The company announced earlier this week it was shutting down the print version of PC Magazine, a publication that has been in existence for 27 years, shifting focus to its online sibling. And it may do the same for EGM. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5095112&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ziff Davis Tech Show Called Off]]> For a few years now, media company Ziff Davis - who among other things run the 1UP network - have run their own tech show, called DigitalLife, which while focusing on all kinds of consumer electronics also had a strong gaming slant. And yeah, it was no CES or E3, but it was in New York, making it a lot more accessible to east coast types. This year, however, the show's been called off. Organiser Paul O'Reilly says: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5040295&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Court Confirms Ziff Davis' Bankruptcy Plan]]> A U.S. Bankruptcy Court has OKed 1Up and EGM owner Ziff Davis' bankruptcy reorganization plans, the company said today, adding that it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 on July 1. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017606&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1UP VP Explains The Positives Of Ziff Davis Bankruptcy]]> Simon Cox, Vice President of Content for the 1UP network, writes in his official 1UP blog that parent company Ziff Davis filing for bankruptcy isn't all gloom and doom. It's not like the staff of 1UP and EGM are going to be working out of refrigerator boxes when and living off government cheese. Business is, well, business as usual and bankruptcy can be a positive thing. How's that again, Mr. Cox? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=364875&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ziff Davis Files For Bankruptcy]]> The publisher of EGM, Games for Windows: The Official Magazine and 1UP.com has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Manhattan court today, in an attempt to restructure its sizable, long-term debt. Ziff Davis has, according to Bloomberg's report, filed papers indicating it has somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion in debt, with previous reports pegging the debt at around $400 million. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=364357&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ziff Sets Us Straight On Stolen Street Fighter IV Pics]]> Earlier today, we posted about the plight of "tiny Brazilian blog" Blogeek, who, as you may remember, posted a pair of screen shots of Street Fighter IV yesterday. Amazingly, the site scooped 1UP to its own exclusive, claiming it had received the screens and details on the Capcom fighter from an "anonymous source." The site's owner, Douglas Pereira, wrote us this morning, crying out for help. "Ziff Davis is going after me. They're chasing me," he lamented. It was very heart-wrenching. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=331583&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ziff Davis Picks On Tiny Brazilian Site Over Leaked SFIV Pics [Updated]]]> Yesterday a tiny little Brazilian gaming site called Blogeek run by Douglas Pereia stumbled upon some new information and screens of Capcom's Street Fighter IV, which were due to be revealed in the next issue of EGM, which will surely grace bathroom floors across the country when it comes out. Gaming websites around the world - including Kotaku - picked up the story and ran with it. Douglas received the information from an anonymous source, but it all looks and feels legit. Well now said information has been confirmed in the form of a threatening e-mail to Douglas from André Forastieri, the boss of Futuro Comunicação, the publisher of the Brazilian EGM.
"The content you posted in the site blogeek is property of Ziff Davis, given from Capcom only to Ziff Davis and EGM issues, with embargo for the publications. Your publication of this subject is theft of intellectual property and should have immediate legal consequences. Ziff Davis and Futuro want you to cut off the content form your site immediately."
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=331553&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Can Print Gaming Media Survive? Maybe.]]> With online video game news coming from powerhouses like IGN, 1UP and Gamespot, can old fashioned glossy print media survive? How can once-monthly publications compete with up to the minute news sources, say, for instance Kotaku, and established gaming media updating throughout the day? That's the focus of the New York Times look at print publishers Ziff Davis Media and Future US, both of whom publish not only on paper, but online as well. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=321769&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ziff-Davis Money Troubles Come To A Head]]> The publisher of Electronic Gaming Monthly and Games for Windows Magazine, Ziff-Davis Media, failed to make an interest payment yesterday and announced that it was negotiating with its lenders to restructure a rather sizable debt. The company, which also owns the web sites 1UP, FileFront, GameVideos, MyCheats and GameTab, owes some $390 million, a figure which CEO Josh Young says "was put on the company when it was a very different scale." The group now employs less than 300, down from 1200 at one point. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=290367&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ziff Davis Undervalued, Unwanted]]> The New York Post has a short item about Ziff-Davis' fall from grace in the publishing world. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=229712&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[R.I.P. Official PlayStation Magazine]]>
Ziff Davis announced today that the long running Official PlayStation Magazine (aka OPM) will see its last issue hit in January of 2007. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=214771&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[CGW Gets Renamed, Free Computer]]> Ziff-Davis is teaming up with Microsoft to spin Computer Gaming World magazine into Games for Windows: The Official Magazine. ZD says the magazine and an online site will launch this fall. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=191750&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Get A Free EGM Script]]>
Ziff-Davis sends word that they're handing out free one-year subscriptions to Electronic Gaming Monthly via a World Cyber Games sponsorship. The offer is limited so hit it like quick. The offer lasts through Friday or while supplies last, which ever comes first. Brian Crecente More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=176226&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GameLife Heading to MTV?]]> We called it. More »
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