Culture Game Informer has officially returned

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Game Informer is back, and so is its entire staff. On Tuesday, editor-in-chief Matt Miller announced that Gunzilla Games has acquired the rights to the gaming magazine, helping to bring the site and its archives back online.
GameStop, which previously owned Game Informer, shut down the beloved magazine last August and laid off its entire staff after a more than 30-year run. The team teased a comeback last week, and has already published a series of new reviews for titles released during the magazine’s hiatus, along with a belated list of the best games of 2024.

Its new owners, Gunzilla Games, is a game developer based in Europe that’s currently working on a battle royale title called Off the Grid. Miller says the magazine will continue operating as an independent editorial outlet under a new entity called Game Informer, Inc. “Our intent is to continue to focus on highlighting the coolest games, celebrating the history and legacy of the gaming industry, and shining a spotlight on the creators and players who are charting its future,” Miller says.
In addition to bringing back its website, Game Informer plans to resurrect its print magazine, too, with “new membership and subscription benefits.” Though Game Informer currently isn’t offering a subscription just yet, you can sign up for an account on its website to receive updates, as well as gain access to the magazine’s archive. Game Informer will continue updating its site with news, reviews, previews, features, event coverage, and more starting today.

 

[BradeRunna]

Bring back unofficial PSM.

I need a video game magazine to tell me all the new AAA games are slop.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

GameMisinformer more like it

Gay men former. Their goal is their name.

 

[King Of Braves]

Now you can pay for gaming journalist slop on paper!

 

[Gregis]

What about Computer Games? That one was funny, it's a magazine just called Computer Games. Do they still make Computer Games?

 

[neger psykolog]

Kind of pointless and a waste of money. There are people all over the place doing game reviews these days. There is a reason why all the video game magazines went out of print the few video game sites that are still around are in massive financial trouble and have taken to pushing political messages and spamming outrage bait. Even G4 shutdown in the late 2000's. It stopped doing video games and started playing shows like Cheaters and Cops in some kind of weird rebrand attempt. Hell, they don't even do E3 anymore.

The reason is that DSP figured out how to film his TV screen and do video game reviews. And he's literally the dumbest person on earth and YouTube used to shower him with ridiculous amounts of money for it. Once he figured out how to do it, it opened the floodgates.

 

[TotalNematodeDeath]

I'll never get over getting an issue with a cool ass game as the main story only for that game to get canned or cheaped out on. The Fable-like pirates of the Caribbean game and I am alive are some key ones I'm still pissed about lol.

 

[get_ur_gamon]

Let's see how long Game Informer 2.0 or should I said "Game Informer 2: electric boogaloo" will hold before they collapse again.

Investers learned nothing from G4's disasterous reboot. Gaming publications are on the way out. People get opinions from youtubers / streamers because you have a much more personal / parasocial relationship with them.

It's like trying to reboot blockbuster. It's just a dying industry.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Actual paper magazines are fun. Yeah it's games journo slop, but it's fun they brought back the magazine

 

[n1663r]

Did GameInformer ever go woke?

I remember long before things got as bad as they are now, they ran a piece about some curry nigger developer complaining that the white guys in his company got him confused with another brown person, and bemoaning the fact that game development as a field was "too white."
Then when people wrote them to tell them how retarded they are and that jobs should be given based on meritocracy and not race, they shot back some smug, flippant response along the lines of "we think everyone has a right to be included, and if you don't like that maybe you should grow up."
That's the first time I can remember being blown away by how retarded progressives can be, like I said it was a while back, definitely before 2014, so they've been pozzed for a while.

 

[The best and greatest]

Who cares? I used to get the mag and while there was some fun elements in it, on the whole it was just a book of advertisements. Pass

 

[get_ur_gamon]

Actual paper magazines are fun. Yeah it's games journo slop, but it's fun they brought back the magazine

And don't forget a gazillion ads that follow you down the page.

 

[Gottahavemysips]

I remember long before things got as bad as they are now, they ran a piece about some curry nigger developer complaining that the white guys in his company got him confused with another brown person, and bemoaning the fact that game development as a field was "too white."
Then when people wrote them to tell them how retarded they are and that jobs should be given based on meritocracy and not race, they shot back some smug, flippant response along the lines of "we think everyone has a right to be included, and if you don't like that maybe you should grow up."
That's the first time I can remember being blown away by how retarded progressives can be, like I said it was a while back, definitely before 2014, so they've been pozzed for a while.

I think back in like 2010 or something, a copy of Game Informer was the first place I read and article bemoaning the "sexist" presentation of women in video games. I remember being really confused about the article, because at the time my two favorite video games were probably Portal and Mirror's Edge, while these assholes were making some retarded claims about gamers and video games. I really liked the magazine at the time, but that one didn't really sit right with me at all, especially because it was a time where my involvement with the internet really was just YouTube and Flash games.

 

[frozen_runner]

Game Informer was a shitty rag people feel fondly towards because all the other gaming mags have been dead for so long nobody remembers how much better they were.

And most of them were shitty, too.

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

I remember it going to shit way back, they started employing the usual suspects and writing nonsense, so I didn't really care when it died
I doubt it's going to be any better, it should stay dead

 

[JohnnyG]

Its new owners, Gunzilla Games, is a game developer

"Its new owners is" lol. Hope their editors can read gooder than Verge's.

 

[Solomon Bundy]

I'll never get over getting an issue with a cool ass game as the main story only for that game to get canned or cheaped out on. The Fable-like pirates of the Caribbean game and I am alive are some key ones I'm still pissed about lol.

I legit fantasized about playing the soon-to-be-cancelled PS1 Daredevil game (it would've looked and played like a Spidey sandbox, but in Hell's Kitchen). I think that was covered in PSM, which is yet another magazine more deserving than Game Informer of this likely-failing second run.

 

[Troonos]

I miss PC Gamer. I remember one issue that was literally 3/4". I wish I could remember which issue it was.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

Game Informer was a shitty rag people feel fondly towards because all the other gaming mags have been dead for so long nobody remembers how much better they were.

And most of them were shitty, too.

The 90s/early 00s were the heyday of gaming magazines. I still have some old issues that I've saved. It was nice that back when the Invasion of Iraq had everyone divided I could still pick up a gaming magazine and not see any politics.

 

[Spot 'em Slot 'em]

I give it a year and change at most before it inevitably bombs and gets put back in its grave, just like G4.

 

[The Chosen One]

Is it going to be like that time when they brought G4 back, but then filled it with uppity feminists and limp wristed males, until they killed it again?