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

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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.

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

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.

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

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

Print magazine?  They still make those?

Congrats, though!

It's print+digital.  www.egmnow.com

Traitor.

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

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

Louie the cat is the new Sushi-X?

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.

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

Congrats, Billy!

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.

An inspiration for aspiring Nintendo fan writers everywhere.

Teh Billeh lives!

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.

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.

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! :D

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

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

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. :)

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

I still had like 10 years of free subscription on EGM when it shut down.  Guess I'm not going to get those back.

Good goin' BILLEH. ;)

Me too. But i was sending them to a friends house so he could get his kids interested in reading. I do all my reading online, so it would have only taken up space here.

Ziff Davis was not bought by Hearst, Ziff Davis sold 1UP.com to Hearst. After Hearst said they didn't want to buy EGM too, Ziff Davis shut the magazine down until Steve Harris bought the name back from ZD. Ziff Davis is still a independent company.

I love how the forum cuts off the title to read "Billy Berghammer Ass"

It was no accident, I assure you of that.

That really seems like something that would have been Funhouse'd by now.

Unfortunately I knew that for a long time now. After Steve Harris announced last summer that he was re-launching EGM I e-mailed him and asked if past subscriptions would transfer over, he said that it was regrettably not possible. I also had a few years of subscriptions saved up. I would have been pissed if I had actually paid for those.

That's half the reason they probably went under in the first place. WHo was paying for subscriptions?

I had like 6 years worth at some point and non of them cost me a dime. I received the first 2 issues and switched my address to a friends house so his son could have them. I have no idea if they ever stopped it because he moved about 2 years ago. I don't know exactly when the magazine went under, but there must have been a forest worth of unpaidfree subscriptions getting shipped around every month.

At a certain point, a magazine's circulation numbers being high so they can tell advertisers "your ad will be seen by X number of people" is worth more than the money people pay for subscriptions.

I think most periodical print media is going to go to an all ad revenue based financial model in the next couple of decades.

I think they even admitted that. They gave away subscriptions pretty easily because it boosts the circulation numbers and thus how much they can charge advertisers. I actually really liked EGM, I hated how thin it got near the end (the magazine used to be about 200 pages in 2001, it was down to near 100 by the time it folded).

The problem with that (as TJ already touched on) was that the magazine became all ads to supplement cost. went from 200 pages with about 12 ads sprinkled in down to 100 pages with a full 2 page ad every 6-8 pages.

There was very little content left in the end and most if not all the info was readily available on the internet weeks before it hit print with the exclusion of some exclusives that would even show up online days before the magazine arrived in the mail anyway.

I await the day of the digital magazine and newspaper delivered directly to your personal portable media display

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

That's the start, but not exactly what I'm looking for.... yet.

Do people really completely ignore my posts?  :(

Not to mention how expensive that is, I don't see anyone buying a $500+ device just for reading their magazines and newspapers.

Well, it's not like that's the only thing it does.

when it does that, combined with voice and video chat(cellular & wifi), remote control apps, Video & Audio streaming (internet and cable On Demand) all at a price that I find reasonable and affordable that is when we have arrived at what I'm looking for.

QFT

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It already does all those things except video chat, which will be there within a year.

but at a price I find reasonable and affordable?

oh and it must be powerful enough to do decent gaming of my choice and run programs that I want.

no video chat is a deal breaker and last I heard it doesn't do voice calls.

a built in kickstand for both directions would be nice too.
wireless keyboard and mouse support, usb, etc etc.

basically a 12"+ laptop in tablet format for $400 or so.

The price is an issue, and will most likely continue to remain one. There's a fantastic gaming presence on the iPhone OS, though it can be hard to find the good stuff in all the crap. It does Skype, supposedly soon allowing calls over 3G. It supports Bluetooth keyboards, but not mice (that will never happen; it just wouldn't work with the UI).