Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium smashes Kickstarter goal on day one

EGM Media announced today that it is launching a new Kickstarter for a product called The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium. As the name implies, it’s a compilation of stories from the magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) gathered into a book that spans the publication’s 25-year history. The Kickstarter launched today and, within a few hours, surpassed its primary goal of $60,000, with over 800 backers at the time of this writing.

The Compendium is a physical book that contains interviews, historical background and features from EGM’s many years in print. It also features stories about the magazine itself. In addition to the book, the Kickstarter also funds the EGM Digital Archive, which will, according to its creators, ideally contain fully readable versions of every EGM ever printed. It’ll be sympatico with the Compendium, with the latter containing codes that link to article topics within the Archives.