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Daily Radar was a news aggregator and portal site for Future US's male-oriented content, including sports, film and television, and video games. Launched in October 1999, [1] Daily Radar started as a gaming website like IGN, GameSpy and GameSpot, and was later renamed and relaunched in the UK as GamesRadar . The site was run by Imagine Media (now Future) and consisted of many editors that contributed to Imagine's print publications. A victim of the dot-com bubble burst, [2] Imagine closed Daily Radar in 2001, weeks shy of E3. [3] The Washington Post later noted that Daily Radar was among multiple "popular video-game news sites" to close in 2001, alongside CNET Gamecenter. [4]

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Its name has since been the inspiration for the name of a satirical website, The Daily Raider. [5] It has also been the subject of jokes in the webcomic Penny Arcade. [6]

The website was mentioned on a June 2001 episode of Whose Line is it Anyway? , [7] when one of the reviewers employed by the website was sung to by Wayne Brady in the style of Britney Spears. [8]

Nintendo lawsuit and closure

Daily Radar was the center of a lawsuit brought against its parent company, Imagine Media by Nintendo. Nintendo alleged that Daily Radar used Pokémon images and the name "Pokémon" in their publication "100% Unofficial Pokémon Trainer's Guide". In response, Daily Radar ceased all reporting on Nintendo in January 2001. [9] Four months later, on May 1, 2001, Imagine Media shut down Daily Radar. [3]

On August 23, 2010, Daily Radar's website and all sub-sites (BallHype, ShowHype and several Daily Radar Blips sites) were replaced with a notice that they were "no longer being supported." [10] As of September 2024, URLs for Daily Radar redirect to TechRadar, a website owned by Daily Radar's former owner, Future plc.

References

  1. ↑ "History | 1999". Future plc. 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-10-18. Retrieved 2024-09-10. October: Future launches a new US games web network called Daily Radar.
  2. ↑ Martin, Simon (May 1, 2001). "Daily Radar shuts up shop and waves goodbye". gamespaper.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2010. Retrieved Aug 24, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Wasson, Scott (May 1, 2001). "Imagine there's no Daily Radar". The Tech Report. Retrieved Aug 24, 2010.
  4. ↑ Musgrove, Mike (August 3, 2001). "Magazines Whose Time Has Gone" . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  5. ↑ "DailyRadar Homepage". Archived from the original on 2000-04-08.
  6. ↑ "Penny Arcade - Comic - Nintendo Scores a Direct Hit".
  7. ↑ "38: Wayne Brady, Kathy Greenwood, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles". Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Season 3. Episode 38. 2001-06-14. American Broadcasting Company.
  8. ↑ Drew Carey, Wayne Brady (2011-05-20) [June 14, 2001]. Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Video Game Song (YouTube). Retrieved 2024-09-10.
  9. ↑ "Duke Nukem on screenshot search and destroy". The Register. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  10. ↑ "Thank you for your interest, but the website you are trying to visit is no longer being supported". Daily Radar. Archived from the original on 2010-09-02. Retrieved Aug 24, 2010.
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