Fans of Electronic Gaming Monthly's print magazine have reason to celebrate today. After ZiffDavis shut down the magazine's operations over a year ago the magazine's original founder Steve Harris bought back the rights to the magazine. Today Harris updated the EGM web site with an update, announcing that folks in North America can now sign up for subscriptions to the new EGM. Subscriptions include getting the monthly print magazine mailed to you as well as access to EGM[I]: The Digital Magazine, their weekly extension of the print magazine. Six months of the EGM/EGM[I] combo costs $14.99 while a full year costs $24.99 for US subscribers (Canadians will have their own subscription options).

The print mag itself will start showing up in newsstands with the April 2010 date issue (which likely means they will get the issues sometime in March) The magazine will have a heavier than normal paper stock that Harris states will "provide greater reproduction quality and to give the magazine a nicer overall look and feel. " The cost for each newsstand issue will be $6.99 so obviously subscribing to the mag is the better value. Harris is still being pretty vague on what EGM[i]: The Digital Magazine will be like, saying, " It is an entirely new product that literally brings content to life in ways that print magazines and websites just can't do." We should see the interface of the product in the coming weeks which will incorporate video, downloads and more. He also hints that it will have some kind of interaction with Apple's upcoming iPad product and other tablet based PCs.