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The troubles at technology media company Ziff Davis are apparently still continuing. This week it was revealed that the company is shutting down its popular ExtremeTech.com web site. The PC hardware site had quite a bit of PC gaming coverage and had a solid list of writer-editors including Loyd Case, Jason Cross, Joel Durham, and others. According to a message post by Case at QuartertoThree.com all of those writers will soon be out of work as of June 26 as Ziff Davis will turn the site into a blog under their PCMag.com site. We know that the talented crew behind the site will land on its feet.

This is just the latest in the many cost-cutting efforts by the struggling Ziff Davis who sold off its 1Up.com gaming web network to UGO and sold off the FileFront.com site to its original creators. It also shut down its Electronic Gaming Monthly print magazine but its original owner recently announced plans to revive EGM in some capacity.

Earlier this year Ziff Davis announced they were going to shut down the Filefront web site. Instead the site's original owners came back, bought the site from Ziff Davis and kept it going. Now it appears that yet another Ziff Davis property might get the same treatment.

Electronic Gaming Monthly, the long running gaming magazine that Ziff Davis shut down last December, has had its assets bought by its original owner Steven Harris. Harris launched the magazine in 1988 and then sold it to Ziff Davis in 1996. Now Harris plans to relaunch EGM sometime in the second half of 2009. There's no word yet if Harris plans to recruit any of EGM'a editorial team to return but we are promised that more info on this deal will be announced at E3 next week.