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.
 
Fucking lol. Who gives a shit? Gaming journalism is where you go when you can't hack it anywhere else, and print media has been mostly dead for some time now. With the state of the gaming industry as it stands now, reviving GI is at best a proposition that will make maybe 200 gamers with no critical thinking skills happy as well as whoever funds this braindead shit until it inevitably tanks. Gaming "journalism" has been total dogshit for decades now.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Barry Williams
As a kid I would read game informer and search on Amazon and read reviews there to decide what to put on my Christmas list. Now that I have a life I just play what stands out to me, especially if it is cheap or free. I could see a gaming magazine still being cool for a kid
 
I recall getting a free subscription with the frequent buyer program back in the ps2 days.
tbh was a pretty nice magazine back then, lots of text, interviews with people
I wouldn't buy it on its own but for something I got anyway it was nice enough
 
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.

checked the website, scrolled down, saw Ass Creed and Avowed both reviewed over 8/10. No thanks.
Somebody answer that phone, I called it. :story:
 
  • Like
Reactions: TowinKarz
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.
Now where will we find purely hilarious cringe?
 
You mean birds. Cats don't piss and shit on paper. Birds shit on paper.
Some degenerate freaks actually make their cats piss and shit on shredded paper. iirc if they've been declawed or otherwise have sensitive paws the sandy type can cause problems.
 
It's nice to have archives back soon. But I don't buy magazines anymore. It would take a lot for me to subscribe to something these days.
 
9ovg2m.jpg

Hopefully it will die again.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Preacher ✝
Some degenerate freaks actually make their cats piss and shit on shredded paper. iirc if they've been declawed or otherwise have sensitive paws the sandy type can cause problems.
Wow. Learned something new. I have seen people too cheap to buy proper bedding for hamsters to use shredded paper, but I never knew people did that shit with cats. If you declaw a cat then what's the point? Half the fun of owning a cat is getting clawed up.
It's nice to have archives back soon. But I don't buy magazines anymore. It would take a lot for me to subscribe to something these days.
I can just get video game reviews off YouTube, and I don't have read them.
 
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?

Yes, but in reverse. They'll have articles with titles like "With the new Samsung Smartfridge, she can play Candy Crush in the kitchen," or "Why women are guests in gaming spaces, and have they worn out their welcome?"

Honestly, I would pay a year subscription for just one tagline like that.

Really though, I know it's optimistic, but it would be cool to see them use the well established name of Game Informer to buck the trend of access journalism. It's possible they could actually write interesting articles about video games as a product and the inside baseball of what's happening in vidya publishers and studios. That would be nice, but I won't hold my breath.
 
Most just remember Game Informer fondly because it was pretty much the last print media gaming magazine. Real niggas remember EGM.
And let's face it we won't be getting good reviews ever again.
View attachment 7139006
The fact they fired him over it..the audacity. Remumds me of the kane and lynch thing leading to one guy getting fired.
 
Back