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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.
 
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Spiral Architect said:
Wasn't game informer just a shill magazine with video game advertisements?
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Yes but the covers were well done so people felt like they were buying something more than publisher PR releases re-worded slightly with post-ironic gen Xer humo.
Fartificial Insmelligence said:
If they did, a sure-fire way to earn some easy credit would be to come out and declare, in no uncertain terms, that that shit isn’t gonna fly at GameInformer2.0
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It's all the same soy faggots who ran the first GI into the ground. Exact same staff and everything.
 
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People are only excited about this because they are wearing rose tinted glasses. Game Informer was always a garbage magazine for as long as I can remember. As a property of FuncoLand and later GameStop, it existed purely to sell you shit. It was an extension of their pushiness with selling preorders and other bullshit. To get you to subscribe they included a 10% off discount with your annual thing.

Game Informer was one of those magazines where nothing got less than a 6.5/10, even the shittiest of games, because they were very transparently in the pockets of game publishers. The only games to get bad reviews were safe targets that everyone was picking on because the studios weren't paying them money for good scor-- uh, exposure.

That new Assassin's Creed game with the nigger samurai that's objectively a dogshit game? Expect things like that to get 8's and 8.5's from Game Informer II. Game journalists are some of the most dishonest and disingenuous fucks on the planet.
 
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TotalNematodeDeath said:
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.
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I mean, I Am Alive did eventually come out as a download only title, but it was really cut down from the original vision. It's a shame too, the demo has some interesting concepts but it felt pretty half baked.
 
Gottahavemysips said:
I mean, I Am Alive did eventually come out as a download only title, but it was really cut down from the original vision. It's a shame too, the demo has some interesting concepts but it felt pretty half baked.
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I just remember fondly looking at all the pictures of the game and loving the idea of playing a survival game like the day after tomorrow. I also remember them loving fallout 3 and then giving new vegas like a 7 which even to little me seemed bullshit.
 
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BradeRunna said:
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.
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G4/G4techtv was just a victim of what every specialized channel underwent. There's more than enough content to make a channel dedicated, to say, science fiction, profitable, yet it still got gutted for shit like pro wrestling (see also A&E, TLC, History Channel, etc.)

Barry Williams said:
Game Informer was one of those magazines where nothing got less than a 6.5/10, even the shittiest of games, because they were very transparently in the pockets of game publishers. The only games to get bad reviews were safe targets that everyone was picking on because the studios weren't paying them money for good scor-- uh, exposure.
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That's endemic of all modern video game reviews nowadays, just look at Metacritic.

Solomon Bundy said:
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.
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I wish EGM had just been kept alive, I think that what happened to it and CGW was shameful; at the same time. But yeah GameInformer was never good and without a major retool that addresses the problems of modern video game journalism it will still suck. There are of course ways to do that:
- Greater focus on retro games including how to play them (which may or may not involve a more open-ended approach to piracy)
- Actually discussing all the indie games without connections and other flotsam that comes through GOG, Steam, and Itch.io; tell which ones are promising and which ones are a complete waste of time and money
- Workable charts and walkthroughs. Yeah I know that a lot of games are designed to be easy with yellow paint and all that but a walkthrough for any game requires some YouTube video or some horrifically bloated website.

That, of course, is pure fantasy. They're not going to piss off the "video game press" cabal, they're not going to tell the AAA publishers what they really need to hear, they're not going to address the massive rot in the industry.
 
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Osama Bin Laden said:
I have a follow-up question: Why not?
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Because literally no one gives a fuck about game journoscums?

They might be worse then political journoscum because they are all loser bums who couldn’t make it as a “real” poltiical journoscum so they are forced into video games, which they don’t care about, and they think “gamers” are woman hating Nazis and they just produce endless garbage defending corporate woke slop and attacking white people.
 
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Troonos said:
Did GameInformer ever go woke?
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On and off, mainly by the people that they interview; but that used to be an extremely rare case. Somehow, it slowly slid into interviewing people who have dedicated their career towards fighting sexism.

I don't think that they've actually touched on the racism issue
Monolith said:
I have one question: Why?
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To bring back the amount of hate mail that Darth Clark generates.
 
If only Nintendo Power could come back...
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All the actually somewhat entertaining guys from GameInformer left forever ago, like Ben Hanson and Leo Vader. So who cares?
 
I think there's still a little room for physical publications in a niche market, like through physical conventions, but GameInformer was on death's door way before even Future began killing their brands off. If Gamestop had bothered to actually track their finances properly during their 2000's peak GI would have been killed even before OXM or Nintendo Power.

There's actually a handful of anime focused mags that seem to have expanded over the past few years but my limited exposure to them is that they're fun to read; there's some of that old Gamesradar/Something Awful editorial-style shitposting in their blood that makes them entertainment in their own right. Even by the standards of stuffy PR-friendly outlets GI was sterile and unless they really dedicate to rebranding that this shit's doomed.
 
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game informers are the basement dwelling evolution of regular weebs.

all of them can't do shit unless a developer releases a god damn game.
so much for that.

all the games have been shit and have been reviewed by EVERYONE ON YOUTUBE ALREADY
what THE fuck do we need game informer for, when 1, no new games have been decent since the fucking gamecube and 2, everyone uses youtube for review reaction shit already.

dumb ass maneuver.
they just wanted to revive this for nostalgia = money lost
 
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