Imagine Media Launches Games Business

Posted on September 16, 1998

Imagine Media has announced it will extend its dedicated Games Division with the launch of Games Business -- a trade biweekly for leaders and decision-makers in the interactive entertainment arena.

"For years the game industry has yearned for a reliable and effective resource that reports on issues directed at the industry's influential elite," said Jonathan Simpson-Bint, President of Imagine Games Division. "Games Business will be that powerful bible, and its unequalled reporting can only be surpassed by its ability to reach those who matter in the games space."

Bill Kelchner, former advertising director of GameWeek, will join Imagine Media as publisher of Games Business, and will report directly to Jonathan Simpson-Bint. Industry veteran Colin Campbell will lead Games Business' editorial Powerhouse as editor-in-chief. Colin has served as editor-in-chief of Next Generation Online, publisher of the UK's EDGE magazine, and is a long-standing senior contributor to the highly respected European trade paper CTW.

Colin and Bill are joined by executive editor Frank O'Connor, former editor-in-chief of Ultra Game Players magazine. The team is rounded out by the art director, Debbie Wells, former art director of Ultra Game Players magazine, and marketing manager Jason Michaels, who served as an editor and later the marketing manager of Next Generation magazine.