UGO Responds to Criticism

Scribbled on January 8th, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
Filed in Industry News, Interviews

MTV Multiplayer Blog has an interview with the CEO of UGO Entertainment, J Moses. He argues that UGO wasn’t responsible for the axing of Electronic Games Magazine – Ziff-Davis was, and the cutting of staff was related to EGM rather than 1Up.com.

He also says he attempted to retain a few of the staff, like Shane Bettenhausen, for future podcasting of 1Up Yours and The 1Up Show, but in Shane’s case, he’d gotten other work:

Asked if 1UP Yours and the 1UP Show specifically would continue, Moses said that those decisions are still being worked through between UGO and the 1UP editorial team. What’s not encouraging for fans of those shows is the departure of the 1UP Show’s producers and one of 1UPyours’ key voices, Shane Bettenhausen. About those personnel, Moses deferred to continuing 1UP editorial director Sam Kennedy as the decision-maker about how and with whom those shows would continue. Moses did call out one person, though: “We would have loved to have had Shane join us, but Shane had other opportunities that we were informed of before we bought the site.”

(Reached for comment, Bettenhausen said he wasn’t ready to announce his new gig just yet.)

Moses thinks that the fans at 1Up.com are in a “wait and see” mode, and assured that 1Up.com would continue without interruption.

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