Author Topic: Billy Berghammer Assumes Head Role at EGM (Read 9250 times)

NWR_Lindy · « **on:** May 08, 2010, 08:51:39 PM »

The former NWR Site Director is set to helm one of the most revered magazines in gaming.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=23046

The latest Weekend Confirmed podcast on Shacknews.com features former NWR Director Billy Berghammer, and he dropped a little bombshell at the end of the show. Billy will soon be taking over as Editor-in-Chief at the recently revitalized EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly).

For those following at home, our former chief first left NWR for a gig running the web side of Game Informer, and later wound up doing the same for G4 TV. Now he's running EGM, a name that longtime gamers are very familiar with, and we here at Nintendo World Report couldn't be happier for him.

Congratulations Billy!

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2010, 09:08:26 PM »

Wow he gets around.
Has there been an online gaming magazine before?

vudu · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2010, 09:14:23 PM »

MegaByte · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2010, 09:24:31 PM »

Quote from: Maxi on May 08, 2010, 09:08:26 PM

Wow he gets around.
Has there been an online gaming magazine before?

Sure, but it depends what you mean by online gaming magazine. If you mean something in non-HTML format, The Escapist used to be published as PDF.

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2010, 09:56:02 PM »

Well I guess I meant that was there a print mag that didn't work out and they changed the format to online.

MegaByte · « **Reply #5 on:** May 08, 2010, 10:00:43 PM »

Again, it depends what you mean. Many of the print mags post their articles online, though not necessarily in magazine format. Also, EGM is still available in print format.

pyrokamileon · « **Reply #6 on:** May 08, 2010, 10:04:06 PM »

sooo what about john davison? oh wait he's gamepro... so who is Billy taking over for?

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #7 on:** May 08, 2010, 10:11:57 PM »

Steve Harris, the original founder who bought the rights to EGM back from Ziff-Davis.

UncleBob · « **Reply #8 on:** May 08, 2010, 10:36:50 PM »

Print magazine? They still make those?

Congrats, though!

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #9 on:** May 08, 2010, 10:44:42 PM »

It's print+digital. www.egmnow.com

stevey · « **Reply #10 on:** May 08, 2010, 10:51:01 PM »

Traitor.

Well at least it isn't G4 anymore so it's defiantly an major improvement.....

ShyGuy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 08, 2010, 11:12:18 PM »

Congrats to Billie, I was shocked to hear it while listening to Weekend Confirmed.

Louie the cat is the new Sushi-X?

Adrock · « **Reply #12 on:** May 09, 2010, 02:54:55 AM »

I've been meaning to subscribe to the new EGM. I haven't in years, but it was always my favorite magazine and it's only $25. Still, I wonder if it's even worth it considering how fast breaking new spreads on the internet. Even if EGM gets an exclusive, it'll be stolen within minutes.

nickmitch · « **Reply #13 on:** May 09, 2010, 04:30:19 AM »

I used to have a subscription. I might have to get that going again...

Congrats, Billy!

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #14 on:** May 09, 2010, 12:58:37 PM »

I was already somewhat interested in this new EGM, and this just increases it. If they put it on the iPad I'll have to subscribe.

Mop it up · « **Reply #15 on:** May 09, 2010, 02:33:20 PM »

An inspiration for aspiring Nintendo fan writers everywhere.

Stratos · « **Reply #16 on:** May 09, 2010, 04:11:17 PM »

Teh Billeh lives!

ThePerm · « **Reply #17 on:** May 09, 2010, 08:00:46 PM »

hehe, i was just over in a magazine section today and I was just thinking about how I used to pick up EGM all the time..back when they were thick and not thinned out till non-existence. Magazines should not be anorexic for content. I remember in EGMs downfall thinking how Nintendo Power was a thicker magazine than EGM and they only covered Nintendo systems. Congrats to Billy! May Louie continually get fat.

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #18 on:** May 09, 2010, 08:55:13 PM »

What's funny is that I'm so damn old that I can remember picking up the very first issue of EGM in 1989 (white cover, with Mega Man 2 as the cover story). I think I actually still have it, although I may have tossed it in a mass magazine purge at some point along the way.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I'd know the EIC of the magazine I read in high school.

Dirk Temporo · « **Reply #19 on:** May 09, 2010, 09:52:14 PM »

So does this mean EGM won't suck?

Toruresu · « **Reply #20 on:** May 09, 2010, 11:06:13 PM »

Quote from: Dirk Temporo on May 09, 2010, 09:52:14 PM

So does this mean EGM won't suck?

My question exactly. EGM has been on a suck-train for a while. Billy congrats!

P.S. come back!

ShyGuy · « **Reply #21 on:** May 09, 2010, 11:10:43 PM »

Mark Bozon is over on EGM now too, for all you haters.

Peachylala · « **Reply #22 on:** May 10, 2010, 11:49:23 AM »

Quote from: Mop it up on May 09, 2010, 02:33:20 PM

An inspiration for aspiring Nintendo fan writers everywhere.

I am not really feeling inspired. Billy is awesome, don't get me wrong, but EGM? ...Uh, hooray?

Ian Sane · « **Reply #23 on:** May 10, 2010, 01:56:11 PM »

It's interesting to see someone who was just "one of the guys" find such success. I've never met Billy and he probably doesn't know who I am but I remember the story of him camping out for the midnight Japanese launch of the Gamecube. I think NWR, from the beginning has had a very good connection to the readers. It has always felt like a community. When that Japanese Cube launch article ran it felt like WE had this guy who went out to Japan for US and to get info regarding the Gamecube for US. Like it might as well been a group of friends who had this one guy in Japan doing the rest of us a favour.

When I think of Billy Berghammer that's what I think of. I think that demonstrates how successful NWR has been. So it's cool that Billy is now the EGM guy. Congratulations.

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #24 on:** May 11, 2010, 08:58:52 AM »

Quote from: Peachylala on May 10, 2010, 11:49:23 AM

I am not really feeling inspired. Billy is awesome, don't get me wrong, but EGM? ...Uh, hooray?[/quote]

EGM is a legendary magazine. A lot of people grew up with it, and it was right there during the heyday of the NES. So don't hate!

Besides, a lot of people were miffed at the way the EGM name was tossed aside when Ziff-Davis was acquired by Hearst Media. It was a victim of the decline of print media, but nobody really wanted to see it go (especially when there were lesser brands on the web that were doing just fine). Know what I mean?

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Author Topic: Billy Berghammer Assumes Head Role at EGM (Read 9250 times)