Former Engadget editor Joshua Topolsky has finally made an announcement about his upcoming technology news site. He’s been building a base of writers and editors, and early this morning he finally announced the project’s name: The Verge. The site will launch in the fall, and the team will continue to run their interim site This Is My Next until then. [This Is My Next]

Josh Topolsky, former editor of AOL’s Engadget, is hiring away Engadget’s journalists to form his own tech news site. In the month after he left the company, Topolsky hired eight former Engadget staffers. AllThingsD reports that he has now also hired Engadget senior editor Thomas Ricker, senior associate editor Sean Hollister and associate editor Joseph Flatley.

Joshua Topolsky, the editor-in-chief, and Nilay Patel, Managing Editor, have stepped down from AOL and will no longer write for Engadget.com. After leaving AOL, Patel and Topolsky will be back in the tech news scene in some form. “I’m not leaving the industry or the news game–in fact, I’ve got a few fantasy projects in mind that hopefully you’ll be hearing about soon,” said Topolsky.

Recently BusinessInsider.com leaked an AOL document that stated the company wants pageviews per story to go from 1,500 to 7,000. They also want to see stories optimized from search engines to reach 95%. Engadget editors Ross Miller and Paul Miller both did not like the rules AOL was enforcing so they stepped down. However Engadget editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky insists that the gadget blog “is not subject to the AOL Way at all. I can’t be any more direct — it’s not happening here.” [The Next Web]

Darren Murph, an editor for gadget blog Engadget.com has snagged a Guinness World Records award for the most posts ever written by a blogger. This is the first award of this category given away by Guinness. Darren joined Engadget in July 2006 and he wrote 17,212 blog posts in about 4 years. These include single posts written on Engadget, Engadget HD, and Engadget Mobile. He also wrote 59 posts in one day during CES 2008. At the time he received his award, he had also written about 3,389,148 words. That is impressive! Just as a comparison, I have written over 7,100 single posts since starting Pulse2 in September 2006. Congrats to Darren! [Engadget]

I thought it was interesting that Topolsky brought the Palm Pre on the Jimmy Fallon show and talked about how cool it was. Sorry Topolsky, you and Fallon can’t convince me to switch from my precious iPhone.

Engadget was co-founded by former Gizmodo editor, Peter Rojas. Ryan Block, Engadget’s former editor-in-chief stepped down on July 22, 2008 and left Engadget to be run by Joshua Topolsky.

Gdgt.com is a new and upcoming consumer electronics website that is started by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block. Gdgt.com is still under construction, but there is a weekly podcast available on the site.

Gdgt is not going to be a gadget blog according to Alley Insider. Insider believes that Gdgt will possibly be a social network since the site is soliciting users to create user names.