I got the sense of a bit of resentment from Hsu in regards to the new EGM --

Seeing a print publication succeed reflects well on the industry at large; no need to belittle people's faith in the brand. And thanks to the EGM name, the magazine has a head start in the game - critical for any magazine looking to gain traction in the hard knocks of this print climate.

As for content, if Hsu's opinion of a quality pub is anything like his editorial content for Bitmob, I'm glad he hasn't been tapped to write for the new EGM. What this crop of web writers doesn't seem to get, and what the old pubs used to (as enthusiast as they were) is that blog-style opinionated journalism does not make for quality content. Hsu and Bitmob dipped their hand too much during the E3 press conferences for me to be able to take them seriously as an objective, unbiased source.

TZ -

I hear what you're saying about the brand, and would feel similarly if it were some outsider looking to abuse the EGM legacy - but it's the original Steve Harris here. His and Ed Semrad's days were among the finest in EGM's history in my personal opinion.

So I stand by the EGM resurrection as one of the hopeful. It just appeared that Hsu was being a little condescending toward those of us out there who maintain faith in the publication. Nothing more, nothing less.

No offense taken - I appreciate the comment, I only hope I didn't come off too much like an arrogant ass

@JHay:

Yeah, i think i might have come of as a bit of an ass too, after rereading my post just now... oh well, thanks for keeping it civil. =)

For what it's worth: my reading-between-the-lines- on Hsu's statements leads me to believe that he feels hopeful about the resurection of EGM too. And my interpretation is that he's not condescending or offended by people being excited about it, but he just takes hype with a large grain of salt until he has more, and more solid, evidence. He doesn't really indicate wether Steve Harris gives him any particular hope, nor the opposite. This could be an indicator of little faith in Harris, or just an indicator that Hsu knows a lot more goes into a good mag than just a competant/faithful managing editor...
duno...
it's all to much speculation for me. I certainly hope the best for EGM, but i'll wait til the first issue is out to see whether it's worth more than a fishwrap.

LOL btw. As of 3:30am pacific time 7/7/09 your "*JZ" comment, where you corrected the misspelling of my name, is at the bottom of the "ChatterBox" recent comments crawl on the right side of the page. I guess that thing doesn't parse at all. Heh.