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11mo ago

GameStop Shuts Down Game Informer, The Longest-Running Gaming Magazine In The US

GameStop Shuts Down Game Informer, The Longest-Running Gaming Magazine In The US

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11mo ago

GameStop Shuts Down Game Informer, The Longest-Running Gaming Magazine In The US

kotaku.com /game-informer-gamestop-meme-stock-gme-last-issue-1851611973

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I LOVED the print version back in the day. It was a quality publication.
- I read the digital edition in high school, the covers were a lot more fun in print!
- big same. i don't even know if i'd be here commenting on gaming forums if i hadn't had Game Informer back in the day. Introduced me to the whole "scene" around gaming!
Bummer. Game Informer was the leading game magazine when Game Pro and Nintendo Power were around, though? I think not. Game Informer was third fiddle at best.
- Let’s compare circulation numbers:
  Game Pro: 558,269 (2003)
  Nintendo Power: 435,000 (2005)
  Game Informer: 1,994,488 (2006)
  I’d say they led by a few copies (edit: for the mid-2000s!)
  
  2006 is a bit late in the game. Game magazines as a relevant medium peaked in the 90s. By 2006 you have a pretty robust internet, what's the point? Yeah, sure, if you stick them in every single B&N they'll sell, but Game Pro and Nintendo Power were institutions in the 90s. If you wanted to know about games, that was the way.
Good. It was just garbage to con you into their paid club. Every month, they would announce things in it that we learned on the Internet weeks before.
Good riddance to some bad rubbish.
- People are losing their jobs
  
  There are too many people on the planet, can't care about them all.

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