My Desktop: I'm gonna miss ya, 1UP/EGM. (2009.01.16)

My Desktop: I'm gonna miss ya, 1UP/EGM. (2009.01.16), originally uploaded by excalipoor.

If you are into video games, then you probably heard the news of 1UP being bought by UGO. EGM, the most well known video game magazine for the past 20 years, has ceased their publication last week. UGO also laid off 30+ people from 1UP. Most of them are from the podcast production, which has been running for over 3 years. The 1UP Show, 1UP Yours, 1UP FM are gone! Luckily, 1Up FM guys already started their own podcast called Rebel FM, which became the no.1 most download gaming podcast a day after its release. While the video production team of the 1UP Show are trying to start their own video show. Even though they got laid off, but they already start to work hard on their new projects. I wish them luck.

There are many interviews from other gaming podcast on what happened at 1UP with some ex-1UP staff:
Greg Ford and Andrew "Skip" Pfister on Player One Podcast
Philip Kollar of Rebel FM on Gamer with Jobs
John Davison talks about 1UP on what they play
Nick Suttner on Cheap Ass Gamer

Here's the list of all the twitter accounts or blog links of the 1UP staff. It's not complete, so if there's any, you can just put a note with the link on the person on the picture.

I got this pic from Karen Chu, an ex-1UP staff member. I think Tina Sanchez is the only person missing from this picture.