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You know, something tells me that Play Magazine doesn’t exist any longer
Posted on February 9th, 2010 5 comments
- Fusion Publishing, producers of Play and Geek Monthly, hasn’t published anything since the January Play (above)
- The last print issue I got of Geek Monthly (subscription renewed in June ’09 or so) was way back in September; they apparently distributed their October and November issues in digital-only format while I wasn’t paying attention
- Play has recently lost two key staffers — Greg Orlando went to PlayStation: The Official Magazine, and Brady Fiechter, who was sorta the editor-in-chief, has moved on to the new EGM project
- A report on Geek’s Facebook page claims that readers are receiving notices that Fusion has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy (i.e. liquidation). I haven’t gotten my notice yet, but I certainly look forward to reading it and seeing exactly how impossible it’ll be to get a refund*
Does this mean that I’m not gonna be producing “Dave Halverson’s Greatest Hits” for 2010?
* Not like we did any such thing at PiQ, of course. But that was all out of my hands, I promise, having been laid off way beforehand! (Not that I was gonna spend my personal money to send out refunds, but…)
5 responses to “You know, something tells me that Play Magazine doesn’t exist any longer”
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Hm, I guess the big question for me is whether trying to order those $10 bundles of 12 back issues is a good idea or a bad idea right now.
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Bullet point three confirms it. Brady wouldn’t let go of Halverson’s tit unless there were absolutely no chance of any more cash coming out.
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zabuni February 9th, 2010 at 02:16
Eric Patterson (shidoshi) is also out. Que Taps, looks like this one is dead.
http://video.playmagazine.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6410&st=0&p=131170&#entry131170
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I had a feeling this was coming after seeing the news about Geek a couple of weeks ago. Sucks for them, but you’re right, refunds are pretty much out of the question.
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Greg O. February 10th, 2010 at 12:09
Just to clarify: I left Play a while ago to do some game writing. I’ve been out of the fold for some time.
I wish all of my former Play co-workers well.
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Frank Cifaldi February 9th, 2010 at 01:24