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.
 
The fact they fired him over it..the audacity. Remumds me of the kane and lynch thing leading to one guy getting fired.
Pretty sure that Kane & Lynch: Dog Days review he made was what kickstarted the whole kerfuffle about magazines taking bribes for good reviews from the publishers. It had been a bit of an open secret for a time but that really forced everyone's hand.
 
  • Informative
Reactions: Scarlett Johansson
Pretty sure that Kane & Lynch: Dog Days review he made was what kickstarted the whole kerfuffle about magazines taking bribes for good reviews from the publishers. It had been a bit of an open secret for a time but that really forced everyone's hand.
Jeff Gertzman i think was his name. Wasn't that what led to the infamous 8.8 meme/viral lexicon definition. Or i am mixing it up with a Zelda review. I can't remember. It has been so long.
 
Jeff Gertzman i think was his name. Wasn't that what led to the infamous 8.8 meme/viral lexicon definition. Or i am mixing it up with a Zelda review. I can't remember. It has been so long.
I don't know about any memes or his name but he did go on to found Giant Bomb on the premise that he would never, ever give a review score for money.
 
I don't know about any memes or his name but he did go on to found Giant Bomb on the premise that he would never, ever give a review score for money.
I was curious so I had to look up the origin of 8.8 specifically. It turns out it was Jeff giving Twilight Princess an 8.8 which caused mass hysteria.

But yeah apparently his review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men led to his firing in 2007.
 
That's a surprise. No sure whether a good one or not. If it's with the same staff then not so much. I mean in terms of woke, they aren't the worst from what i remember, not good either.. but the current staff at the time of death were turbo shills.. and by design.

Still, nice to see an old name return. Maybe with some new blood and being free from GS and big media/business, they could do something interesting. But given the cucked SJ opinions of some of he staff in the not long ago past, i sort of expect it to be taken over in short order and become full of smug and hateful prog ideological shills too.
 
Back