GameStop Shuts Down Game Informer (kotaku.com) 16
Game Informer, the longest-running gaming magazine in the U.S., is officially dead and GameStop killed it. Kotaku: It began publishing in 1991 and has been one of the last remaining physical gaming magazines in the world, with cover stories that continued to share deep dives and exclusive interviews on the biggest games coming out, from Final Fantasy: VII Rebirth to Star Wars Outlaws. No more.
Staff at the magazine, which also publishes a website, weekly podcast, and online video documentaries about game studios and developers, were all called into a meeting on Friday with parent company GameStop's VP of HR. In it they were told the publication was closing immediately, they were all laid off, and would begin receiving severance terms. At least one staffer was in the middle of a work trip when the team was told. The sudden closure of Game Informer means that issue number 367, the outlet's Dragon Age: The Veilguard cover story, will be its last.
Staff at the magazine, which also publishes a website, weekly podcast, and online video documentaries about game studios and developers, were all called into a meeting on Friday with parent company GameStop's VP of HR. In it they were told the publication was closing immediately, they were all laid off, and would begin receiving severance terms. At least one staffer was in the middle of a work trip when the team was told. The sudden closure of Game Informer means that issue number 367, the outlet's Dragon Age: The Veilguard cover story, will be its last.
Whaat? (Score:3)
I thought CGW is still around .. just googled it and found out it died a long time ago. How the fuck?
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Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
We saved GameStop for this bullshit?
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I feel some sympathy BUT, I have never heard of "Game Informer", and I've been a rabid gamer for, err... are you familiar with the Atari 2600?
Perhaps there are good reasons for the closure, although no reason at all appears to have been offered.
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I remember reading Game Informer on the bus in the late 90s and early 2000's when I was in grade school. I am a bit surprised it is still around. I feel bad for their staff.
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Sadly, it's been down hill since then. Between writers who've clearly been hired on for making negative reviews ("I don't understand this genre, nor am I interested in it, so let's try to claim the game is racist / sexist / etc." kind of negative reviews), or Gamestop constantly giving me a digital subscription (wit
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Re: Seriously? (Score:2)
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Back in the late nineties, there was a bunch of noise in certain circles (e.g., among public libraries) about how the internet is going to kill off books and nobody will ever read any mor
RIP Funcoland (Score:2)
Shame (Score:2)
Their Super Replay series was pretty good until Ryckert left.
At least it's not a lawsuit... (Score:2)
At first, from the headline, I thought it was a lawsuit... then I RTFS, and realized that Gamestop owned the mag and just shut it down for whatever business reasons.
...but it might be because of a lawsuit? (Score:2)
Just did a quick search on "Ryan Cohen" + GameStop [google.com] to see what else might be afoot, and ran across this article from Bloomberg Law, dated today: "GameStop CEO Sued by Bed Bath & Beyond for Insider Trading (1)" [bloomberglaw.com]
The nutshell version: Apparently Cohen was one of Bed, Bath, and Beyond's directors in 2022, and for about six months, Cohen and his company RC Ventures LLC made a series of trades on BBB stock based on insider information he was privy to as a director. BBB is suing to claim the $47 million in pr
Prescient "EGM RIP" Quote: (Score:1)
"Don't think that you are safe 'cause you are owned by Gamestop."
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