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CGM Shuttered

Computer Games magazine and its new sibling Massive (which I don’t think survived long enough to be renamed) shut down today. Not because “PC gaming is dying” or “print media is dying”, but because theglobe.com is dying, specifically thanks to a summary judgement entered against it by Myspace.com that caused theglobe to go thefwoomf.

Gamasutra’s story is here. Troy Goodfellow, regular writer for CGM, has more on his blog.

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