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Here’s what (s)he had to say. Last November, UGO negotiated for more venture capital. They had announced that they had recieved $10 million. This was true. The problem was, they had asked for – and needed – $23 million to stay afloat. The remainder was contingent on stopping UGO’s

Update: Blue isn’t getting paid either. And he’s UGO’s biggest affiliate. Is UGO paying ANYONE? Sorry for those of you sick of these “the Internet is collapsing” stories, but, well, in the gaming part anyway, the Net really is sort of collapsing. For those of you with

Yet another story in the MMORPG site deadpool today. EQ Forge is one of the most popular class-specific message board sites out there, hosting the canonical ranger and shaman boards and quite a few other resources besides. EQ Forge (this month anyway) is getting banner ads from UGO. You

In the time-honored tradition of logrolling in our time, I’d like to hype Quarter to Three again. Mainly because Mark Asher and I have been trading articles on the state of the web publishing industry, and we’ve decided that the rules have changed. Linking is bad. If

Even quicker update: UGO layoffs confirmed. Just a quick note. You know that rumor I posted yesterday about layoffs at UGO? Here’s more from fuckedcompany.com, about as unimpeachable a journalistic source as, well, us (they also “reported” recently that Microsoft’s Games division shut down this weekend – you

You know the golden age of the new media? Over. Old news. Been done. lumthemad.net is a reasonably successful niche web site. We got about 1.6 million page views in December (the last month before I and our webhosts both took a little holiday). I have no idea

Harbringer of things to come? Saw this first on Quarter To Three, one of the better general gaming sites: Everlore is asking for money to turn off their new pop-up ads. With the current status of the Internet advertising industry, revenue streams used to pay for site maintenance (bandwidth,