I was really sad to hear about 1up.com a week or so ago. I’ll be honest, I hardly ever went to the website. For my gaming news I prefer IGN or I just read random gaming items on Digg. There were several 1up Podcast that I listened to religiously. 1up yours, GFW, and 1up fm. Out of all the gaming podcast, Ive always felt that those 3 were the most entertaining to listen too.

Lets back up a minute…in case you dont know.

1 up yours logo1up.com is a gaming website. That website was also the home for several gaming magazines, EGM and Games for Windows. If you remember, almost a year ago Ziff Davis (who owns all of those publications) shut down Games for Windows Magazine. Luckily all of the writers were just converted to the website only pc gaming section. Also the GFW podcast was still left intact.  A couple of weeks ago, Ziff sold the whole 1up.com and EGM magazine to UGO, a gaming website I never visit (actually, I didn’t know they still existed). The bad thing about that transaction, UGO shut down the EGM magazine and laid off most of the talent at 1up.com.  1up.com still exist and UGO claim to want to keep the website intact and running, but writers such as Shane bettenhausen, Anthony Gallegos, Nick Suttner and Ryan Scott.

What are these guys going to do? I don’t know, there have been a few things that has started since the transaction, Ryan Scott and a few others have started a new Podcast at Geekbox.net. Nick Suttner and Anthony Gallegos have their thing going on at eat-sleep-game.com with a new podcast (called rebel.fm). And Shane got picked up by a gaming publisher (Ignition Entertainment).

Hopefully things will work out for all those guys.

If you want to hear the farewell podcast, check out 1up yours on Jan 30th.