POP Ep.116: End of an era, start of another (Voicemail line: 713-893-8069)

Player One Podcast

Chris Johnston

Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.5 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2009

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

No game talk this week. Instead, we dedicate the whole episode to talking about EGM's closure and the 1UP layoffs in the wake of Hearst/UGO's purchase of 1UP.com. In addition to regular hosts Chris "CJ" Johnston (ex-EGM News Editor) and Phil Theobald (ex-EGM editor and former GameNow Reviews Editor), we welcome a couple more ex-Ziff guests to the program: Kevin Gifford (ex-1UP editor and gaming magazine expert/Magweasel), Greg Sewart (ex-EGM Previews and Reviews Editor), Greg Ford (EGM Managing Editor), and Andrew "Skip" Pfister (ex-EGMer, GMRer and 1UP.com Reviews Editor/Podcast Producer).

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This week's links:
Andrew "Skip" Pfister on Twitter
Andrew "Skip" Pfister's page on 1UP.com
Greg Ford's page on 1UP.com
RebelFM
Eat-Sleep-Game.com (RebelFM folks)
Talking Orange (ex-1UP Show folks)
Magweasel
GSW: Opinion: Print Game Media - [Still] Not Dead, [Maybe] Getting Better
GSW: Game Mag Weaseling
Greg Sewart's Wordpress blog
Chris "CJ" Johnston's Twitter
Phil Theobald's page on 1UP.com
Joystiq: Future Publishing experiences increase in gaming mag sales
PaidContent.org - Ziff Davis Gets Out Of The Game
NeoGAF: Listing of 1UP/EGM folks' blogs and Twitters

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 116 of the Player One podcast for Monday, January 12th, 2009.
0:23.6	I'm your host, Chris Johnston, and we're doing things slightly differently this week,
0:28.6	kind of a roundtable kind of thing.
0:30.6	So bear with me as I introduce everybody.
0:33.6	So joining me this week is my co-host, Phil Theobald. Yeah, that's me.
0:40.4	Yes. And co-host at large, Greg Seward. Glad to be back? Yeah. Okay. What does that
0:50.1	what you mean in this case? Well, it means. Yeah. You know, you're a jerk, by the way.
0:56.4	Exactly.
0:57.9	It's pregnancy weight.
1:01.0	And we also have with us Kevin Gifford, the original Magweasel.
1:05.3	Oh, hello, gentlemen.
1:06.5	Not only do I occasionally run a website called magweasel.com, I also write a column about
1:12.5	magazines and I do a lot of writing and translating and I even help launch oneup.com back in
1:19.1	2003.
1:20.6	Jesus.
1:21.2	We're playing you off.
1:23.1	The music has started.
1:24.3	I'm ragging about having jobs.
1:26.4	What a dick.
1:28.8	Next up is a podcast producer extraordinaire Andrew Fister.
1:33.5	Hello, everybody.
1:34.7	And I apologize ahead of time.
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