Game Informer, the decades-old gaming magazine and online publication and absolute institution for anyone who once got their printed gaming news and reviews fix from their local GameStop/EB Games, has (rather unceremoniously) shut its doors for good.
The news came suddenly on Saturday, with Kotaku reporting that staff were called into a meeting with parent company GameStop’s HR leadership and told that operations were officially ceased and they’d all been let go. Within moments, the Game Informer website was also shut down, rendering at least 15 years of content inaccessible, even to the now-laid-off staff.
“After 33 thrilling years of bringing you the latest news, reviews, and insights from the ever-evolving world of gaming, it is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of Game Informer,” reads a post the magazine shared to social media.
“From the early days of pixelated adventures to today’s immersive virtual realms, we’ve been honored to share this incredible journey with you, our loyal readers. While our presses may stop, the passion for gaming that we’ve cultivated together will continue to live on.
“Thank you for being part of our epic quest, and may your own gaming adventures never end.”
The Final Level: Farewell from Game Informer ?? pic.twitter.com/tmrEB2TE7U
— Game Informer (@gameinformer) August 2, 2024
While Game Informer’s Australian operations were ceased all the way back in 2019, as the result of cost-cutting at EB Games, the US edition was still a fantastic read and bore some truly memorable covers, and its online counterpart was full of incredible content by a team of talented and hardworking journalists, writers, creators, presenters, editors and more.
Game Informer is sadly another in a long string of gaming publications seeing an end, including the recent Pedestrian shutterings affecting the good folks at Kotaku Australia, and is joined in these ongoing collapses by the bottom floor of pretty much every facet of the games industry right now.
