Culture Game Informer has officially returned

  • 🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.
(L/A)
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.
 
I wonder if this means they'll be able to improve the quality of reporting and maybe become an outlet for actual reviews and not just a propaganda mouthpeice for modern globohomo woke soyslop.
a game developer based in Europe
nm.

Did GameInformer ever go woke?
They went broke so they must have.

Serious answer: from what I remember, yes but not more so than the usual gaming "journalism" outlet.
 
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.
 
Wasn't game informer just a shill magazine with video game advertisements?
It was FuncoLand's in-house rag, as I recall. They pushed subscriptions at the counter.

If we're bringing back '90s gaming magazines, there's legit 5-10 that deserve it more than Game Informer. EGM and GamePro were both hugely popular in their day, and still influential in '00s gaming media.
 
Back