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jen-and-aster
@jen-and-aster

Game Informer is closing, and we’re personally devastated. We’ve never been a consistent reader of the magazine, but it was crucial toward developing our interest in games, and the people who wrote about them. Founded in 1991, it’s exactly as old as we are. We distinctly remember the Oblivion issue passed around during lunch in grade school, marveling over something as minor as the stone textures in the opening prison. “This is what the future looks like.”

Even when we grew older, we found ourselves returning to Game Informer’s website again and again, whether it was for Dan Ryckert’s LPs (look up the one for OverBlood II, it is something) or coverage we weren’t seeing elsewhere. As recently as yesterday, we were using their annual game release chart to plan out what we wanted to cover on our own website!

The magazine always felt like it had a pulse on the future. It’ll be upsetting to watch it get left behind in the past.


jen-and-aster
@jen-and-aster

Update: GameStop went and replaced the website, decades worth of work, with a “We’re closed” landing page. We hope someone out there has archived everything, especially the videos. What a nightmarish fucking company.


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in reply to @jen-and-aster's post:

being invested in the game industry today is like witnessing a slow-rolling apocalypse; all of these publications being consumed like the fucking Nothing from Neverending Story. I really hope whatever is on the other side of this brings back print publications; I don't think I'll ever trust an online-only journalism outlet ever again

in reply to @jen-and-aster's post:

Welp... that's the last record that I ever wrote about games in a professional capacity gone from the internet. I think I have my copy of the physical issue that my preview of Vermintide went into, but everything else I did for the 3 months I was there is poof now. It was already hard to find after they rebuilt their site, but... now it's just gone. =/