With the recent news of the acquisition of the 1up network by UGO and it’s parent company, the Hearst Corporation, the death of another historic publication has come to pass. When the “Games For Windows” magazine published it’s last issue April of last year, the signs that former 1up holder, Ziff Davis Media, was in trouble were definitely there, but who would have guessed that less then a year later the entire network would be sold to another company leaving a majority of the staff lost in transition? While certainly whenever an acquisition or merger takes place there is going to be redundancy that will usually be resolved with the firing of employees, the way in which Hearst has handed out pink slips seems rather counter intuitive on their part.