Wow this is truly a shock to me. I picked up my first EGM in April 1991 and I have been a on off subscriber since... so many memories in those mags I don't think the gaming industry will be the same without it. the internet killed the print mags period. Still in my opinion GAMEFAN was THE best mag ever next to Next Generation... all gone.. sad

Sad day for all gamers, U WILL BE MISSED.

Losing GFW Radio AND Magazine was worse enough for me, but this is further devastating. The 1up yours show and podcast and the new LAN party were certainly weekly traditions for me, especially the 1up Yours Show which I've listened to from the start. A LAST 1upyours show would be excellent or better yet, have these guys make a podcast and keep moving forward with the crew.

Since Dan Hsu left as editor of EGM, I personally found that the number of games covered was less (but each feature had more content) and unfortunately for me, the bulk of those games featured, I had little interest in before and after reading the articles.

Not to mention they removed a bunch of staple features when Hsu left, like 5 Lives.

And the one where they interview someone working in the game industry and outline what their job entails and how they got it (the name slips my mind atm). I think the excuse given for eradicating it was that they covered every possible job title, which was BS, since their are definitely nuances to jobs from company to company, and there are a ton of individual stories to tell in the industry, in this area.

To replace the features that got the axe, they put in that ridiculous Blu Ray Movie review feature. That boggled my mind since it was a game magazine and there was clearly a million other pieces of game related info that could have put in there instead. If I want info about films and DVDs/Blu Rays, I'll start subscribing to Empire. That addition in particular seemed a bit self-absorbed and was not created with the readers in mind.

I was also extremely disappointed two issues back, Prototype was suppose to have a feature article in the Watchmen issue, but in that issue there was zero sign of it, and not even a little retraction blurb stating that it didn't make it. Instead they gave it a small paragraph in the comic book game article that was in what looks like the last issue of EGM.

The EGM I will always remember will be the old school thick magazine, that had a lot of crazy 90s game advertisements, but also way more content than any other game magazine.

I'll also miss 1up's podcasts, Video shows and video specials. I rarely read the content on the site (usually other sites had info first), but I was a huge fan of their extra content.

Nick, there's always Edge, though I know for me, the North American shipping charge is killer. I'll probably replace my EGM subscription with the gamasutra.com industry magazine.

I saw this coming. Ever since Dan Hsu was promoted to 1Up director of editorial content, the Iup site basically stopped updating, then very shortly after that Dan Hsu stepped down as editorial director of 1up and Editor in Chief of EGM. The magazine has slowly gotten smaller and smaller each month. It’s a bummer; I still have over 12 months of subscription time left. EGM was one of the most honest magazines I've ever read (been a subscriber since my the SNES came out), and sometimes their unwillingness to bend to publishers' will would lose them ad revenue (see: Ubisoft getting mad about Assassin's Creeds poor reviews, Midway getting mad about multiple bad reviews for their MK games). Dan Hsu even called those publishers out by name when they pulled support of EGM. Now I am stuck with the paid-off, revenue driven, advertisement magazine that is Game Informer. Oh well.

Will miss you EGM.