A Definitive History of Video Games Through the Pages of the #1 Gaming Magazine
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Once again, we’d like to thank all of our backers for making The EGM Compendium such an incredible success.
Today, we’re announced two important upcoming deadlines.
First, on August 15th, we’ll be ending Late Pledges on the campaign. Late Pledges have been an incredible boost to the campaign, but it’s finally time to bring them to a close. If you’ve been following the project but haven’t yet backed, this is your last chance to get the Kickstarter-exclusive rewards.
The following week, on August 22nd, we will locking orders on BackerKit. That means you’ll no longer be able to make any changes to your survey that involve modifying the contents of your pledge. If you’d like to add, remove, or tweak any add-ons, please do so before then.
And if you haven’t filled out your BackerKit survey yet, please do that as soon as possible. As a reminder, you can always access your survey by entering the email address associated with your Kickstarter pledge at https://egmcompendium.backerkit.com/.
Be aware that even after orders are locked, you’ll still be able to update your shipping address. We’ll send a separate update to provide advance notice before we lock addresses.
Thanks again.
Hello and thanks again to you, our backers!
We had a quick but exciting update we wanted to share. Since we first launched the campaign, many backers have been asking whether Ed Semrad would be participating in the book.
For any of you who may not be aware, Ed was a part of EGM from the very first edition all the way until issue 105. As the first Editor-in-Chief to follow founder Steve Harris, he played a pivotal role in building the magazine into the institution it became. We obviously wanted to include him if at all possible.
We’d first attempted to get in touch with Ed six months before the start of the campaign, with no luck. Each time we spoke to anyone who worked alongside Ed, we asked if they had any current contact information. Again, nothing panned out.
As we realized the window for Ed to participate was coming to a close, we tried again, cold calling one final phone number we were able to dig up. We got an answering machine, started to leave a message and then… Ed picked up!
We scheduled an interview, and Ed ended up speaking with us for more than two-and-a-half hours, sharing his wealth of memories and perspective on the near-decade he spent working on the magazine. We’re delighted we’ll be able to include him in the book.
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