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Edited By Ryan  Staff
A much more fitting coda.
A much more fitting coda.
One of the more minor tragedies of EGM going out the way it has is the fact that the cover story for the final issue of the nearly 20-year-old magazine is for the game based on the upcoming Wolverine spin-off movie. No disrespect to the developers at Raven Software or Hugh Jackman, but that's a pretty lousy bookend, especially when you consider that the magazine kicked off with a sweet Mega Man 2 cover story. What's worse is the fact that the EGM team had actually finished their February 2009 issue, which was to have a fairly kick-ass Street Fighter IV cover, before getting the axe, but it never made it to the printers. That would've been particularly fitting, seeing as there have been more issues of EGM featuring Street Fighter than any other franchise.

Yesterday, while the rest of the magazine staff cleaned out their offices as Citizen Kane played on loop in the background, EGM's Editor-in-Chief and fashionista James Mielke updated his 1up blog to reveal that, while their February issue will never see newsstands, it will be made available on 1up, complete with ads, sometime in the near future. Hopefully they go with a nice portable format like PDF and not just a bunch of web pages. We all know how volatile those can be, particularly these days.
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#1  Edited By Ryan  Staff
A much more fitting coda.
A much more fitting coda.
One of the more minor tragedies of EGM going out the way it has is the fact that the cover story for the final issue of the nearly 20-year-old magazine is for the game based on the upcoming Wolverine spin-off movie. No disrespect to the developers at Raven Software or Hugh Jackman, but that's a pretty lousy bookend, especially when you consider that the magazine kicked off with a sweet Mega Man 2 cover story. What's worse is the fact that the EGM team had actually finished their February 2009 issue, which was to have a fairly kick-ass Street Fighter IV cover, before getting the axe, but it never made it to the printers. That would've been particularly fitting, seeing as there have been more issues of EGM featuring Street Fighter than any other franchise.

Yesterday, while the rest of the magazine staff cleaned out their offices as Citizen Kane played on loop in the background, EGM's Editor-in-Chief and fashionista James Mielke updated his 1up blog to reveal that, while their February issue will never see newsstands, it will be made available on 1up, complete with ads, sometime in the near future. Hopefully they go with a nice portable format like PDF and not just a bunch of web pages. We all know how volatile those can be, particularly these days.
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#2  Edited By MeatSim

Yea that's a horrible way to go out with, some movie spin off game on your cover.

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#3  Edited By zitosilva

Well, at least it's a little better than to have a cover of the Chun-Li spinoff movie.

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#4  Edited By dsplayer1010

Agreed^

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#5  Edited By ZmillA

There are those that said this day would never come, what are they to say now?



... sorry  -_-

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#6  Edited By McPlated

Street Fighter IV AND Riddick is always good times in print - except when this happens...

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#7  Edited By chewii101

Sigh....still sad to see such a quality magazine go to waste...

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#8  Edited By HelixSnake

On the 1up podcast with all the fired people: they mentioned printing off 100 or so magazines and auctioning them off.

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#9  Edited By JC

It's sad to see 'em go. I wish everyone the best of luck.

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#10  Edited By RHCPfan24

That is great to hear. Though it is sad to hear it is actually gone, and with a Wolverine story? At least they will have the SFIV one available somehow.

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#12  Edited By AndrewB

@HelixSnake: I would totally buy one, especially with a cover like that.

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#13  Edited By killawogg

damn it i want one last issue... i want that cover to be the bookend to my subscription

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#14  Edited By McQuinn

sweet, a last one to remember 

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#15  Edited By Spiritof

Ziff Davis should have asked for a bale out.

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#16  Edited By Waffles13

"Yea that's a horrible way to go out with, some movie spin off game on your cover."

Someone is trolling, big time.

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#17  Edited By Claude

My mailbox has never felt so empty. Goodbye EGM.

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#18  Edited By citizenkane

R.I.P. EGM

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#19  Edited By PowerSerj

I would love to get a copy of the final issue ;_;

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#20  Edited By gamer812

Sad to see EGM go.  Can't wait to read the final issue.

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#21  Edited By godzilla_sushi

The Watchmen cover was even worse. "The End is Nigh."

Ugh....

I think it's a totally depressing shame. But I look forward to the last one. Everyone will get to enjoy it.

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#22  Edited By MrKlorox

In the next month section of the final print issue, the caption reads "Hell freezes over". Kinda apt also.

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#23  Edited By musdy

The Final Round :(

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#24  Edited By Kajaah117

Literally 1 day after I renewed my subscription. The 1up editors(now former 1up editors) will always be some of my favorite people ever and a lot of them have been a huge inspiration for me. I really look forward to seeing what they do next. Best-case scenario= Giant Bomb just got bigger. Maybe? Pretty please.

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#25  Edited By ocdog45

everybody is hurting now a days.

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#26  Edited By chronicsmoke

its really sad to see em go,been reading their magazine since 94

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#27  Edited By LiquidPrince

That Street Fighter cover would be an epic finisher.

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#28  Edited By Knarfenstein

I let my sub expire in October there just wasn't enough to make me want to drop the cash to keep it going, by the time it popped up in my mailbox most of the news was old anyway.
If anything I'll miss their threatening "Resubscribe" letters more than anything.

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#29  Edited By Aaron_G

They should have let the last issued be printed, to say good-bye. 

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#30  Edited By Brackynews

Could this be the start of a new meme?  You got Jackman'd!

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#31  Edited By Geno

Ziff not even giving them the dignity to end on a high notes makes it clear that the people behind this decision were not passionate about games at all.

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#32  Edited By poser

That internet thing sure is a bitch eh?

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#33  Edited By KillerFly

@ Geno:

I think it's pretty safe to say that all the decisions surrounding this were 100% buissiness and finance related.

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#34  Edited By E_rock

Nintendo Power and EGM were my end all sources for video games news as a young lad, before the internet caught on at least.  A sad day indeed.

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#35  Edited By Red

This Wolverine game better be friggin awesome.

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#36  Edited By lordofultima

I can actually go to a printing press and print them out if I have the PDF files. I don't think EGM will really mind, as they're kind of not in business anymore.

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#37  Edited By daniel_beck_90

I wish them luck because they 'll need it !  -sigh -

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#38  Edited By Jolly_Lolly

Well, at least I have their last issue..which is kind of cool in a sad way.

..Even though the issue wasn't very good :/

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#39  Edited By jamBOT

Speechless.

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#40  Edited By LordAndrew

What a way to go out. Their last issue was so uninteresting, I'm not even sure I read it.

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#41  Edited By lordofultima

This Street Fighter issue would also be their "proper" 20th anniversary.

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#42  Edited By AutomaticSnake

these are some sad times...

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#43  Edited By Linkyshinks

It would be cool to own on PDF.

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#44  Edited By lamegame621

i once again have only this to say :         ---                    >:(

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#45  Edited By HiroSeven

Yeah I wish they were allowed to print off their last issue at least. The first EGM I ever read was about Street Fighter II on the SNES, so this would be a fitting way to say 'Final Round!' to the mag.

Thanks for the great times EGM.

-hiro

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#46  Edited By TGB

Rebel FM said they might be up for turn the pdf's into a bound magazine, or even a hardcover version!

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#47  Edited By Media_Master

I still don't care for EGM