Publishing company Ziff Davis has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. ZD’s publishing empire includes 1Up.com, Games for Windows, PC Magazine and Electronic Gaming Monthly, among others.
If you’re an avid reader of those (like me), don’t fret too much. Chapter 11 is a debt reorganization scheme that sees the bankrupt company make one payment to a debt trustee instead of to all its creditors.
It’s not a liquidation plan. Still, the bankruptcy claim must be approved by the courts before it can be put into action.
The rumors of Ziff’s money problems have been floating around for months, but this is the first official mention of them. In addition to publishing online and offline media, Ziff produces the popular Digital Life convention, held every year in New York City.
Source: Bloomberg
I’m pretty sure many fans didn’t see our back-to-back trips to New York (the DigitalLife Pro/Am, a tournament we run every year) and Seattle (World Cyber Games 2007) back in October of this year, so I thought it would be a good idea to re-showcase the videoblogs from those events.
In these videos, you’ll get to see djWHEAT’s “real” job outside of Epileptic Gaming; he’s not called the Head Broadcaster for nothing. You might also be interested to know that the Epileptic Gaming crew basically doubles as a traveling pro gaming broadcast team. Yeah, yeah, pro gaming doesn’t resonate with many gamers. We know. This stuff is behind the scenes, and some of it is solid f’ing gold.
You’ll also see footage of fan-favorite Rance Costa in these vids. The GGL Wire crew is in New York City for DigitalLife 2007, but not without our fair share of travel woes. Watch this sequence of videos to get an overview of our journey, from LAX to JFK Airport in New York City. You’ll find out who the Swedish Fish really is, why Amir Haleem will never go pro again, how to properly self-medicate for six hour flights, and more.
The Wire crew includes: Amir “Hakeem”Haleem, Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham, Rance “Rome” Costa, Hogan “kam-RA” Carter, Robert Summa, Chachi Ramirez, Don Andrews, Ben Watkins and myself. We’ll be updating you with more videos as the week goes on.
While hosting the Guitar Hero 3 tournament here at DigitalLife, the GGL Wire crew was able to test out the Battle Mode in a public exhibition with random players pulled from the crowd. The result? Some of the best Guitar Hero competition you can get. A new feature to the Guitar Hero series, Battle Mode adds the most thought-out use of strategy than any other mode currently found in not only Guitar Hero games of the past, but also the next iteration that hits store shelves on Oct. 28 for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.
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Easily one of the biggest titles on the show floor here at DigitalLife, the Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock demo proves once again why the game that more or less started it all still rocks … and hard. With much-needed improvements like master track usage, boss battles, and other co-op and multiplayer goodies, Guitar Hero 3 is exactly the kind of offering needed to compete with the anticipated rival from EA, Rock Band. Finally getting a chance to play the game before its release, only now can I really see that it’s still Guitar Hero but with much more.
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These guys didn’t bother to wait for the weekend to get started. We’ve already got games being played in the GGL’s Digital Life Pro/Am tournament, so what are you waiting for? Sign up and get started. Continued…
