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  • Hearst Corporation acquires 1UP, dissolves EGM, fires best employees.

    The rumors were true. Gaming giant 1UP.com and Electronic Gaming Monthly are effectively kaput.

    Yesterday afternoon 1UP announced that it has been bought by Hearst Corporation, owners of UGO.com. Hearst owns large chunks of various press outlets, including ESPN and a handful of major newspapers.

    So far the corporate line is something along the line of “1UP is full of great personalities that will continue to provide great content under the new leadership.” Unfortunately, the acquisition involved the axing of the entire staff of EGM and the 1UP show, which accounts for 99% of the personalities anyone cares about.

    A list (in progress) of the lay-offs can be found here.

    The full story can be found here.

  • How much is World of Warcraft costing you?

    A subscription to World of Warcraft costs 14.99 a month (a buck or two less if you buy your subscription in 3 or 6 month chunks). That comes out to $180 bucks a year. Not bad. Quite a bit cheaper then just about any other hobby you could name. Or is it?

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  • Windows 7 Benchmarks

    So I just found out that it goes against the EULA to publish benchmarks of Windows 7. Nice one, Microsoft.

    And in order to check off Getting a Take-down Notice from my Bucket List, I’ll be posting a series of Windows 7 benchmarks (Using Build 7000) later this week.

    Microsoft probably won’t even notice.

  • Metal Gear Solid Touch (?!)

    If you were waiting for the next big name publisher to make a game for the iPhone, wait no longer. Kojima Productions, developers of the much acclaimed Metal Gear series are bringing their stealth action shooter to the iPhone and iPod Touch. 1UP is reporting that the game will be based on characters from MGS4, that it will ship with 8 initial levels, and that there is precious little information available besides that.

    And if doesn’t do it for you, Konami is also bringing Dance Dance Revolution, Silent Hill, and Frogger to the iPhone.

    DDR? Really?At least the Tap Tap Revolution people were honest with their name.

    Kojima Productions

    1UP

  • Finals Week

    Yep, it’s that time again. The editors of Hijinks Inc are hard at work procrastinating and putting off studying for finals. See you in a week!

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