Anyone Knows Why/when Gamefan Went Down?

[ebreda]

Just wondering, since it was my favorite magazine...

Any concrete info on why it was killed? And which issue was the last one?

Thank you, and congratulations for the incredible website.

[triverse]

Just wondering, since it was my favorite magazine...

Any concrete info on why it was killed? And which issue was the last one?

Thank you, and congratulations for the incredible website.

First of all, it is my fave magazine too, good to meet a fellow fan. Gamefan is like Maximum and Official Sega Saturn Monthly is to meppi (probably going to be a life long work in progress of improving releases).

Ok, here is the extreme condensed version of what I know:

I am not going to post the bickery and underhanded things that happened early on because that is something between the people involved.

Gamefan later in their lifecycle somehow ended up being bought by Gamecave/Express.com with Eidos being involved at some point (still not sure when that $55 million was pumped into the company/mag but it happened before they printed their last issue). The final issues were made with Eric Mylonas as the editor (he is writing game guides for, I believe, Prima at the moment). The first many issues were done with Dave Halverson at the helm, he is currently at Play Magazine in the US (also, he ran Gamer's Republic, another defunct mag).

Issue 88, I believe, is the final issue to be released. Sad and abrubpt ending too, similar to EGM but not with as much fanfare.

Sorry for that sounding out of sync but it is late and I just now saw your post and wanted to at least get a response up for you. Let me know if you want to know anything else.

[PS_Mania]

I'm also pretty certain that at least two editors left the magazine and started PS Extreme. Another individual left Gamefan to become a game designer in 1994. He is now working for SCEA.

[triverse]

I'm also pretty certain that at least two editors left the magazine and started PS Extreme. Another individual left Gamefan to become a game designer in 1994. He is now working for SCEA.

Tim Lindquist is one of the editors/founders of Gamefan that went over to PS Extreme. The only other one that I know of that is close to games still is Eric Mylonas and he is just writing guides. Terry Wolfinger was involved in Hardcore Gamer mag for awhile (not sure if he still is).

Dave Halverson (E. Storm + others) is at Play right now.

Nick des Barres (Nick Rox/FF Rox/etc) is at Play as the Japanese correspondent

More info on most of the others is on the wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameFan

I am finally seriously thinking about setting up something here for all of the info I know about Gamefan (and my personal experiences with obtaining it).