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Electronic Gaming Monthly
EGM text logo.svg
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Spring 2010 cover, featuring Mass Effect 2
Editorial DirectorJosh Harmon [1]
Categories Video game journalism
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherEGM Media, LLC
FounderSteve Harris
Founded1988
First issueMarch 31, 1989;35 years ago (1989-03-31)
Final issue
Number		Summer 2014
Issue 264
CountryUnited States
Based in Lombard, Illinois
Language English
Website www.egmnow.com
ISSN 1058-918X

Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine. [2] [3] [4] It offers video game news, coverage of industry events, interviews with gaming figures, editorial content and product reviews.

Contents

History

The magazine was founded in 1988 as U.S. National Video Game Team's Electronic Gaming Monthly under Sendai Publications. [5] [6] In 1994, EGM spun off EGM² , which focused on expanded cheats and tricks (i.e., with maps and guides). It eventually became Expert Gamer and finally the defunct GameNOW . After 83 issues (up to June 1996), EGM switched publishers from Sendai Publishing to Ziff Davis. [7] Until January 2009, EGM only covered gaming on console hardware and software.

In 2002, the magazine's subscription increased by more than 25 percent. [8]

The magazine was discontinued by Ziff Davis in January 2009, following the sale of 1UP.com to UGO Networks. [9] The magazine's February 2009 issue was already completed, but was not published. [10]

In May 2009, EGM founder Steve Harris purchased the magazine and its assets from Ziff Davis. [11] The magazine was relaunched in April 2010 by Harris's new company EGM Media, LLC, widening its coverage to the PC and mobile gaming markets. [12] [13]

Notable contributors to Electronic Gaming Monthly have included Martin Alessi, Ken Williams (as Sushi-X), Jim Allee, "Trickman" Terry Minnich, Andrew "Cyber-Boy" Baran, Danyon Carpenter, Marc Camron (later Director of Operations), Mark "Candyman" LeFebvre, Todd Rogers, Mike Weigand A.K.A. Major Mike (now Managing Editor at GamePro Magazine), Al Manuel, Howard Grossman, Arcade Editor Mark "Mo" Hain, Mike "Virus" Vallas, Jason Streetz, Tim Davis, Ken Badziak, Scott Augustyn, Chris Johnston, Che Chou, Dave Ruchala, Crispin Boyer, Greg Sewart, Jeanne Trais, Jennifer Tsao, artist Jeremy Norm Scott, Game Scholar Leonard Herman, Shawn "Shawnimal" Smith, West Coast Editor Kelly Rickards, Kraig Kujawa, Dean Hager, Jeremy Parish and Mark Macdonald (who later went on to become director of Gamevideos.com before leaving Ziff-Davis). Writers who also served stints as editor-in chief include Ed Semrad, Joe Funk, John Davison, James Mielke, [14] artist Jeremy "Norm" Scott, Dan "Shoe" Hsu and Seanbaby. In addition, writers of EGM's various sister publications – including GameNow, Computer Gaming World / Games for Windows: The Official Magazine , Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine – would regularly contribute to EGM and vice versa.

The magazine is known for making April Fools jokes. [15] Its April 1992 issue was the source of the Sheng Long hoax in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior . [16] [17]

Web-only relaunch (2019–present)

In March 2019, EGM announced that it was going to relaunch "later this year" into an outfit that will have "a new look and a focus on long-form features, original reporting, and intelligent critique." It enters under the backronym "Enjoy Games More". [18]

In a letter in April 2020, editor Josh Harmon announced that the site would no longer publish long-form articles, prompting speculation that the publication had shut down. [19] Harmon edited the announcement shortly afterwards to confirm that the site would continue "some form of daily news coverage". [20]

Game of the Year

YearGameGenreDeveloper(s)
1988 Double Dragon [21] Beat 'em up Technōs Japan
1989 Ghouls 'n Ghosts [22] Platform Capcom
1990 Strider [23] Platform Capcom
1991 Sonic the Hedgehog [24] Platformer Sonic Team
1992 Street Fighter II [25] Fighting Capcom
1993 Samurai Shodown [26] Fighting SNK
1994 Donkey Kong Country [27] Platformer Rare
1995 Twisted Metal [28] [29] Vehicular combat SingleTrac
1996 Super Mario 64 [30] Platformer Nintendo EAD
1997 GoldenEye 007 [27] First-person shooter Rare
1998 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time [31] Action-adventure Nintendo EAD
1999 Soulcalibur [32] Fighting Namco
2000 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 [27] Sports Neversoft
2001 Halo: Combat Evolved [27] First-person shooter Bungie
2002 Metroid Prime [33] Action-adventure Retro Studios
2003 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [34] Action-adventure Ubisoft Montreal
2004 Halo 2 [27] First-person shooter Bungie
2005 Resident Evil 4 [27] Survival horror Capcom
2006 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess [27] Action-adventure Nintendo EAD
2007 BioShock [27] First-person shooter Irrational Games
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV [27] Action-adventure Rockstar North
2009 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves [27] Action-adventure Naughty Dog
2010 Red Dead Redemption Action-adventure Rockstar San Diego
2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim [35] Action role-playing Bethesda Game Studios
2012 Far Cry 3 [36] First-person shooter Ubisoft Montreal
2013 BioShock Infinite [37] First-person shooter Irrational Games
2014 Dragon Age: Inquisition [38] Action role-playing BioWare
2015 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt [39] Action role-playing CD Projekt Red
2016 Overwatch [40] First-person shooter Blizzard Entertainment
2017 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild [41] Action-adventure Nintendo EPD
2018 Red Dead Redemption 2 [42] Action-adventure Rockstar Games
2019 Control [43] Action-adventure Remedy Entertainment
2020 The Last of Us Part II [44] Action-adventure Naughty Dog
2021 Psychonauts 2 [45] Platform Double Fine
2022 Elden Ring [46] Action role-playing FromSoftware

Magazine structure

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The magazine includes the following sections:

The Review Crew

EGM's current review scale is based on a letter grade system in which each game receives a grade based on its perceived quality. Games are reviewed by one member (originally a team of four until the year 2000, then a team of three, and finally knocked down to one in 2008), except for "the big games", which were reviewed by one of a pool of editors known as "The Review Crew." They each assign a grade to the game and write a few paragraphs about their opinion of the game. The magazine makes a strong stance that a grade of C is average. Towards the top of the scale, awards are given to games that average a B− or higher from the three individual grade: "Silver" awards for games averaging a grade of B− to B+; "Gold" awards for games averaging a grade of A− or A; and "Platinum" awards for games with three A+ grades. The current letter grade system replaced a long-standing 0–10 scale in the April 2008 issue. In that system, Silver went to a game with an average rating from 8 to 9, Gold to a game reviewed at 9 to 10 and Platinum to a game that received nothing but 10 ratings. Until 1998, as a matter of editorial policy, the reviewers rarely gave scores of 10 and never gave a Platinum Award. That policy changed when the reviewers gave Metal Gear Solid four 10 ratings in 1998, [47] with an editorial published half a year before announcing the shift. [48]

In addition, they gave the game (or multiple games in the event of a tie, as with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for Xbox and NCAA Football 2006 ) with the highest average score for that issue a "Game of the Month" award. If a "Game of the Month" title receives a port to another console, that version is disqualified from that month's award, such as with Resident Evil 4 , which won the award for the Nintendo GameCube version and subsequently received the highest scores for the PlayStation 2 port months later and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 , which won the Platinum award for two separate versions of the game.

In 2002, EGM began giving games that earned unanimously bad scores a "Shame of the Month" award. As there is not always such a game in each issue, this award is only given out when a game qualifies.

Originally, a team of four editors reviewed all the games. This process was eventually dropped in favor of a system that added more reviewers to the staff so that no one person reviewed all the games for the month.

Though the scores ranged from 0–10 on the previous numerical scale, the score of zero was almost never utilized, with exceptions being Mortal Kombat Advance , The Guy Game and Ping Pals .

At the very end of every single magazine made during the Hsu period there is a funny/random message after the absolute last text (copyright/disclaimer text) on the last page.

International expansion

EGM en Español was released in Mexico in November 2002. It was published by Editorial Televisa and is edited by a different staff. Sometimes the content was more focused to the Latin American gaming crowd (e.g. soccer games were paid more attention than NASCAR or American football games), as well as the humor and other features. Sometimes it featured jokes among the Mexican community and sometimes supported the production with a poster. Adrián Carbajal “Carqui”, with a long experience in Mexican gaming magazines (prior to EGM en Español, he worked in now competitor publications Club Nintendo and Atomix), was the editor-in-chief through the entire run. There was a weekly official podcast called "Playtime!" hosted by most of the editorial staff. EGM en Español has been cancelled as of December 2008 due to Ziff Davis Media's economical problems.

EGM Italia was published in Italy by Edizioni Star Comics S.r.l. from 2001 to 2003. EGM was also published in Brazil as EGM Brasil by Conrad Editora since April 2002. Since the last quarter of 2005, EGM Brasil was being published by Futuro Comunicação. With the suspension of U.S. sales of the EGM, the Brazilian EGM was rebranded to EGW (Entertainment + Game World).

In 2006 three other editions of EGM were published around the world. EGM Thailand is published by Future Gamer Company Ltd., EGM Singapore is published by MediaCorp Publishing and EGM Turkey is published by Merkez Dergi.

EGM Turkey got closed in January 2009 for financial crisis.

Internet presence

In 1995, EGM's first online website was nuke.com. It merged with GameSpot in 1996 after Ziff-Davis purchased Sendai Media Group. In 2003, EGM created a new website, 1UP.com , after GameSpot was sold to CNET Networks. [49] Since the magazine's relaunch in 2010, [50] the affiliated website has been egmnow.com. [51]

EGM Live* was a podcast hosted every Monday by the editors of EGM on 1UP.com. The podcast was available for download at 1UP.com or the iTunes music store. Much like other podcasts on the 1UP network, the program could include discussion of various message board topics, an analysis of new games being reviewed, a mailbag section, a deeper look into the most recent issue of the magazine, or interviews with special guests such as Marcus Henderson and Ted Lange from Harmonix and Cliff Bleszinski from Epic Games. The "*" at the end of the name was to denote that the podcast was not actually "live" in the general media sense. It was later replaced by 1UPFM, another weekly Monday podcast where 1UP crew members Nick Suttner and Phil Kollar hosted the show, along with other 1UP members.[ citation needed ]

EGM2

EGM2
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Cover of the first issue of EGM2 (July 1994): Super Street Fighter II vs. Mortal Kombat II
PublisherSendai
First issueJuly 1994;30 years ago (1994-07)
Final issueJuly 1998 (1998-07)
CountryU.S.
LanguageEnglish

EGM2 (stylized as EGM2) was a video game magazine published by Sendai Publishing from July 1994 to July 1998 as a spin-off of Electronic Gaming Monthly. Unlike EGM, however, EGM2 lacked a reviews section and had a greater emphasis on import games.

Starting in August 1998, EGM2 became Expert Gamer (often abbreviated as XG). Although with a different name, XG continued EGM2's numbering system. XG lasted for 39 issues until October 2001 (with the last issue being XG #88).

History

The first issue of EGM2 was in July 1994. The magazine lasted 49 issues with the last issue under the original name coming out in July 1998. The change of name prompted a cleaner looking redesign although the content of the magazine would remain the same.

Reception

In a 2014 retrospective, Polygon said: "For two decades, EGM maintained a focal position in the games media landscape. In the time before the internet, the periodical was a vital conduit for American readers interested in the hobby." [52]

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