Ugh, UGO: 1UP's own "night of the long knives"

Today 1UP.com was sold to UGO by Ziff Davis and all signs point to it being an empty shell of its former self. Most of my favourite 1UP personalities were let go and it looks like all of the podcasts are dead in the water, something that I have a hard time with. 1UP Yours was the bedrock of my Friday nights for almost three years and now it's gone, which is doubly painful when I realize how ironic the last show was, looking forward to 2009, promising to be back and Shane proclaiming an "epic" show for CES. No more Shane, Skip, Ryan, Milky, Philip, Chuff, Fitch and everyone else...I know they're just voices on the internet that have never actually been next to me, but I loved those guys. Sam Kennedy is trying to put a brave face on it, but really, it's no more. EGM has been disconnected from the life-support it's been on for some time, but how do they think they're "going to continue to work [their] hardest to make 1UP the best site it can be and to produce the very best content [they] can" without any audio or video shows? I could really care less about the business side of it all, and I somewhat understand the need to trim the fat in some areas, but to gut the best staff and destroy the only things that made the site worthwhile? Shame on you, UGO. Shame on you as well, Ziff-Davis.

R.I.P. 1UP.com.