A year and a half after it was rebranded as the Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, the former Computer Gaming World magazine is closing and its editorial staff moving to the 1up.com network to expand its PC gaming coverage. In his blog editor Jeff Green states he hopes that the move to a quicker online format will lead to improvements: “some ways, this change will both liberate and, uh, empower (sorry, I was trying to avoid that word) us to drill down into certain key aspects of PC gaming in the 21st century--modding, patches, MMO updates--that were always challenging for us in print.”
This shift may be for naught however. The magazine’s owner, Ziff Davis filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy last month listing assets of $313 million and liabilities of $500 million. Its main publication is PC Magazine with has been looking rather thin for years now.