Daily Radarwas a news aggregator and portal site forFuture US's male-oriented content, including sports, film and television, and video games. Launched in October 1999,[1]Daily Radar started as agamingwebsitelikeIGN,GameSpyandGameSpot,and was later renamed and relaunched in the UK asGamesRadar.The site was run byImagine Media(now Future) and consisted of many editors that contributed to Imagine's print publications. A victim of thedot-com bubbleburst,[2]Imagine closed Daily Radar in 2001, weeks shy ofE3.[3]The Washington Postlater noted that Daily Radar was among multiple "popular video-game news sites" to close in 2001, alongsideCNET Gamecenter.[4]
Popular culture
editIts name has since been the inspiration for the name of a satirical website,The Daily Raider.[5]It has also been the subject of jokes in the webcomic Penny Arcade.[6]
The website was mentioned on a June 2001 episode ofWhose Line is it Anyway?,[7]when one of the reviewers employed by the website was sung to byWayne Bradyin the style ofBritney Spears.[8]
Nintendo lawsuit and closure
editDaily Radar was the center of a lawsuit brought against its parent company,Imagine MediabyNintendo.Nintendo alleged that Daily Radar usedPokémonimages and the name "Pokémon" in their publication "100% Unofficial Pokémon Trainer's Guide". In response, Daily Radar ceased all reporting on Nintendo in January 2001.[9]Four months later, on May 1, 2001, Imagine Media shut down Daily Radar.[3]
On August 23, 2010, Daily Radar's website and all sub-sites (BallHype, ShowHype and several Daily Radar Blips sites) were replaced with a notice that they were "no longer being supported."[10]As of September 2024[update],URLs for Daily Radar redirect toTechRadar,a website owned by Daily Radar's former owner,Future plc.
References
edit- ^"History | 1999".Future plc.2005. Archived fromthe originalon 2005-10-18.Retrieved2024-09-10.
October: Future launches a new US games web network called Daily Radar.
- ^Martin, Simon (May 1, 2001)."Daily Radar shuts up shop and waves goodbye".gamespaper.Archived fromthe originalon August 28, 2010.RetrievedAug 24,2010.
- ^abWasson, Scott (May 1, 2001)."Imagine there's no Daily Radar".The Tech Report.RetrievedAug 24,2010.
- ^Musgrove, Mike (August 3, 2001)."Magazines Whose Time Has Gone".The Washington Post.Archivedfrom the original on 2018-05-23.Retrieved2018-10-05.
- ^"DailyRadar Homepage".Archived fromthe originalon 2000-04-08.
- ^"Penny Arcade - Comic - Nintendo Scores a Direct Hit".
- ^"38: Wayne Brady, Kathy Greenwood, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles".Whose Line Is It Anyway?.Season 3. Episode 38. 2001-06-14.American Broadcasting Company.
- ^Drew Carey,Wayne Brady(2011-05-20) [June 14, 2001].Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Video Game Song(YouTube).Retrieved2024-09-10.
- ^"Duke Nukem on screenshot search and destroy".The Register.Retrieved27 July2021.
- ^"Thank you for your interest, but the website you are trying to visit is no longer being supported".Daily Radar. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-09-02.RetrievedAug 24,2010.
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