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GI suddenly shutting down completely sucks. It was inevitable, but it still really sucks. It's gonna take a while for it to really hit me. The magazine was a nice staple for my family to sort of bond over, and the website with it it's huge 2010's community groups and forum features led to me making a lot of lasting internet friendships.

I mostly moved on, but it feels like... A lot of things really. A reminder that several eras are truly gone and done, something that'll hopefully push me to cherish and improve the present, and of course another (and possibly final) letdown from GameStop. Lots to reflect on. Guess I should probably reach out to my old friends from those community days or something.

And I haven't even really mentioned the magazine. The great, often enticing or pleasing covers, the pages were filled with so many solid sections and features, not just review scores and blind hype. Yeah. It was just a game magazine... But I was a pretty damn fine one. Info about cancelled and then in development games, exclusive interviews, occasional second opinions, cheat codes for a while (back when those were a thing.) Remember cheat codes? Remember magazines? They still make those apparently.

I'm gonna have to find the issues I saved and hopefully put them in a better place or something.
But yeah, this end was inevitable, the writing had been on the wall for ages. Between years of cuts, digital pivots that didn't really take off, and all of GameStop's financial woes, it's a surprise this didn't happen sooner. Hell, there's a lot that that's ending or struggling right now, game industry or not. But it's still lame. The sudden, somewhat unceremonious end sucks. I guess I'll foolishly hope for a farewell issue or something, officially or otherwise.


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