Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) is a United States based video game magazine. It releases 13 issues a year and is published by Ziff-Davis. The first issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly came out in the summer of 1989. EGM sticks mainly to the standard video game mag fare of news, previews, and reviews of current gen games and consoles as well as current gen handhelds. Their current staff include Dan "Shoe" Hsu (editor-in-chief), Mark Macdonald (executive editor), Jennifer Tsao (managing editor), Crispin Boyer (senior editor), Shane Bettenhausen (previews editor), Demian Linn (reviews editor), Bryan Intihar (news editor), and Shawn Elliot (associate editor).
As video game journalism goes, Electronic Gaming Monthly is actually one of the more respectable gaming mags (which isn't really saying much).
EGM loves April
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The writers at EGM let their inner tricksters out and make fools of many of their readers on an annual basis. Their April Fool's pranks include the claim of a cheat which would allow one to view the luscious ladies of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball in the nude, and the prank which indicated that access to a realistic remake of the cell-shaded The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker would be given to anyone who would preorder the newest game in the Zelda series, now titled The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (please add more April Fool's pranks). Though some of the fans of the magazine quickly accept and sometimes revel in the jokes others have gotten quite upset about being made the fool of and threaten to end their subscription to the magazine. It is, however, doubtful EGM intends to stop the April Fool's pranks.
The magazine owner suck the big one when they stopped and cancel the magazine, but does not refund the money owed to the customer. I subscribed to them till July of 2010 because I thought their magazine was great, but I guess not. The owner started as a high school drop out, I guess he is still a failure, but a success in cheating people.