Daily Radar
{{Short description|American website portal (1999–2001)}}
Daily Radar was a news aggregator and portal site for Future US's male-oriented content, including sports, film and television, and video games.
Launched in October 1999,{{cite web |title=History {{!}} 1999 |publisher=Future plc |date=2005 |quote=October: Future launches a new US games web network called Daily Radar. |url=http://www.futureplc.com/future/aboutus/history.jsp?year=1999 |access-date=2024-09-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051018234345/http://www.futureplc.com/future/aboutus/history.jsp?year=1999 |archive-date=2005-10-18 |url-status=dead}} Daily Radar started as a gaming website like IGN, GameSpy and GameSpot, and was later renamed and relaunched in the UK as GamesRadar. The site was run by Imagine Media (now Future) and consisted of many editors that contributed to Imagine's print publications. A victim of the dot-com bubble burst,{{cite web |title=Daily Radar shuts up shop and waves goodbye |first=Simon |last=Martin |website=gamespaper.com |date=May 1, 2001 |url=http://www.gamespaper.com/news/DailyRadarsiteshutsupsho.shtml |access-date=Aug 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828113055/http://www.gamespaper.com/news/DailyRadarsiteshutsupsho.shtml |archive-date=August 28, 2010 |url-status=dead}} Imagine closed Daily Radar in 2001, weeks shy of E3.{{cite web|url=http://techreport.com/discussions.x/2395|title=Imagine there's no Daily Radar|date=May 1, 2001|author=Wasson, Scott|publisher=The Tech Report|access-date=Aug 24, 2010}} The Washington Post later noted that Daily Radar was among multiple "popular video-game news sites" to close in 2001, alongside CNET Gamecenter.{{cite news |title=Magazines Whose Time Has Gone |first=Mike |last=Musgrove |date=August 3, 2001 |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2001/08/03/magazines-whose-time-has-gone/2cfa9df2-1610-4230-a9ed-85a0be911d5e/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2018-10-05 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180523201714/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2001/08/03/magazines-whose-time-has-gone/2cfa9df2-1610-4230-a9ed-85a0be911d5e/ |archive-date=2018-05-23 |url-status=live}}
Popular culture
Its name has since been the inspiration for the name of a satirical website, The Daily Raider.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyraider.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000408174115/http://www.dailyraider.com/ |archive-date=2000-04-08 |title=DailyRadar Homepage}} It has also been the subject of jokes in the webcomic Penny Arcade.{{Cite web | url=http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/01/19 |title = Penny Arcade - Comic - Nintendo Scores a Direct Hit}}
The website was mentioned on a June 2001 episode of Whose Line is it Anyway?,{{Cite episode |title=38: Wayne Brady, Kathy Greenwood, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles |episode-link=Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American TV series) season 3#ep97 |series=Whose Line Is It Anyway? |series-link=Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American TV series) |network=American Broadcasting Company |date=2001-06-14 |season=3 |number=38}} when one of the reviewers employed by the website was sung to by Wayne Brady in the style of Britney Spears.{{cite AV media |title=Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Video Game Song |people=Drew Carey, Wayne Brady |date=2011-05-20 |orig-date=June 14, 2001 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRFkuueVVDw |medium=YouTube |access-date=2024-09-10}}
Nintendo lawsuit and closure
Daily Radar was the center of a lawsuit brought against its parent company, Imagine Media by Nintendo. Nintendo alleged that Daily Radar used Pokémon images 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.{{cite web |title=Duke Nukem on screenshot search and destroy |url=https://www.theregister.com/2001/01/19/duke_nukem_on_screenshot_search/ |website=The Register |access-date=27 July 2021 |language=en}} Four months later, on May 1, 2001, Imagine Media shut down Daily Radar.
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."{{cite web |title=Thank you for your interest, but the website you are trying to visit is no longer being supported. |publisher=Daily Radar |url=http://www.dailyradar.com/thankyou.html |access-date=Aug 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902064059/http://dailyradar.com/thankyou.html |archive-date=2010-09-02 |url-status=dead}} {{As of|2024|September}}, URLs for Daily Radar redirect to TechRadar, a website owned by Daily Radar's former owner, Future plc.
References
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External links
- [http://www.mastergamer.com/featuresimagine.html The Slow And Painful Death Of Imagine Media]
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Category:Video game news websites
Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2001
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