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I recall having a GameInformer magazine and I was reading it on the bus on the way to school as a kid. There was another kid who got on the bus and for whatever reason, no one would let him sit with them. I offered for him to sit near me, he saw my magazine and we talked all about games! From then on, we became great friends and still chat all these years later. I’m grateful that GameInformer provided me opportunities to connect with others.
@@NameFaceless lol nothing for a while. a lot of people keep shit now ever since their stuff from the 90s blew up in value. it will take time for them to gain value and thats because of todays internet where you an archive a lot of stuff and till more people lose or destroy their copy.
Game Informer literally outlasted “Electronic Gaming Monthly” and “GamePro” magazine, GameStop should’ve sold it off to someone who’d continue the magazine moving forward
@@CyrusIsnt Imagine comparing two different groups of people just to look dumb but feel smart lol everyone knew it was still around they just didn't care because it immediately lost it's magic when GameStop bought it. Everyone's just surprised they held a death grip on it without improving or rolling back the format to even try to increase sales back to normal and that it's lasted this long.
I was a moderator on GamePro for years and the news came just as suddenly. Just a banner across the top of the site with a link to PC World for some reason and the rest of the site completely locked. We couldn't even say goodbye to each other. Still feels strange how that era of my life just suddenly ended one day.
I'm not from the US so I don't know if that was the case with all american magazines... Bought a Gamepro in 1998 and it had hundreds of pages, but more than half of them were ads. Bought a french magazine at the time as well and it was way skinnier, but it had a lot more useful information in it. The ones I collected here in Brazil were much better too.
And these are the same bastards that make stupid tweets like "bet you wish you bought physical now huh?" after the 360 store shut down. Screw you GameStop, I do buy physical but not from you. I also had physicals of these magazines, now most of its history online is gone. Thanks for, once again, being such a scummy company.
@@AppleInk They were losing money with game informer. And you want them to keep it up? For what? Maybe the last 2 issues but anything else? No one gave a shit when it was ongoing, but now we care? We knew gamestop was falling apart for years, physical magazines, and news blogs been dying for years. If you really cared about the maganize you should be an active member
I stopped going to them in 2016. Had 5 games ready to buy only for them to say they’re out of stock I now buy new games off of Amazon or retro game sites or go to my local retro game store where funny enough I’ve gotten more money back when I had doubles in my game collection Fuck GameStop is all I say
I would sit and read gaming mags cover to cover multiple times in the 90s. I would bring a pad and paper to the grocery store and sit in the isle whike my mom shopped writting down codes hints and tips. It was before the internet boom and the excitment when a new issue was delivered will never be forgotten. I hope the staff that lost their jobs find something even better asap.
@Nivedoloplad Just someone projecting their own insecurities. To them, collecting magazines is less "nerdy" or "cringe" than bobbleheads and gives them a sense of superiority.
Still have my “a look at Destiny” game informer before d1 was released. Looking at the exotics close up with the descriptions of the classes man. Truly glad to have been part of it.
Honestly this kinda thing scares me as we get deeper and deeper into the tech age. The upper ranks of society completely erasing history. Yes, this was just a magazine, but the concept is all the same.
If any of you listened to any former gamestop employees (like Silent Rob) you would know that they [GameStop] are both ANTI-CONSUMER and ANTI-EMPLOYEE. Screw them.
This is why I tell people the stock market needs to be dismantled. The sooner that happens the sooner people will be FORCED to be pro-consumer. Screw Shareholders being literal leeches on the economy.
tbh, the website articles have been utter s**t... the old mags, up until like 5 maybe 6 years ago are like, the only thing worth it, the newer ones where dog s**t.
I'd say GameStop is destined to go the way of Blockbuster, but then I remember there's a key difference: People still have fond memories of Blockbuster. Nobody's going to give the slightest $#!+ about GameStop.
Kind of? I love the brick and mortar feel of old school GameStop (before the Funko bullshit). However, I think once GameStop is gone and the other retailers stop carrying games because of digital sales taking over people will miss GameStop. They won't miss corporate being dumb asses but they'll miss midnight launches and sales.
No no, we hated blockbuster at the time. Rose tinted glasses for the past. The small local video store was usually better, but less selection (particularly because of film distribution companies working with blockbuster)
I cried like a baby when PSN went under and was "" merged "" with Official PlayStation Magazine. However, ditching Game Informer? That's a big chunk of your gamer youth. FFS.
My local GameStop literally closed its doors and emptied out last week without warning. The next closest one I went to this week had all its lights turned off and a bunch of blow out sales(still over priced af). Super weird and although I hate the company it’s a vast vestige for physical media :/
The fact they nuked Gameinformer out of a whim and issue a farewell statement that was apparently AI generated shows you how little GameStop cares about their company
I swear mobody hates the gaming industry more or has oess respect for the gaming industry than the gaming industry itself. You don't see film, music, or even more ephemeral media like radio or dance treating their history as sonething to actively be discarded once it can no longer actively produce incressing profits.
the comics industry is doing the same thing and actively going broke for it. This is what happens when your only goal is to promote a political agenda instead of selling a product. lessons learned the hard way but is still deserved.
This reminds me of when Telltale Games shutdown. One day everyone had a job, the next day everything got shut down. And this year has been a bloodbath for the gaming industry on all fields.
We used to have a library period in elementary school. All my friends and I would immediately try to hover over the game informer magazines and talk video games the whole 45 minutes. I still remember the Game Informer issue with RE4’s Leon Kennedy on the cover. Game informer, you will be missed 😢
Man, my Funcoland card with the Game Informer subscription was my childhood! I had a subscription non-stop from 1st grade through high school which included that issue with Cloud on the cover at 3:02. Last time I looked I think the only original guy left on staff was Reiner. Still remember that guy after all these years going from a young guy to graying.
Oh wow, I had actually forgotten that Game Informer started with Funcoland! I know I had some issues in the 90s but it's hard to remember which. After googling I'm pretty sure I had issue 27 from July 1995 with _The Adventures of Batman and Robin_ on the cover.
How do you manage to throw away the former CEO OF NINTENDO! When you are begging for help!? Edit: Poor choice of words, but I'm basically saying you're screwed when a former GOOD CEO doesn't want to help
One of the reasons why I stopped buying physical games is because these guys have ruined my experience with the market. They are incredibly distasteful.
Not yet. First Kongregate gets shut down and then Gamestop. Kongregate is their last line of defense from shutting down. ThinkGeek got defunct in 21. 3 years ago. And Kongregate is not doing gamestop any favors other than being a service to milk the last bit of money from.
i remembered seeing game informer magazines growing with the upcoming games such as Pokémon black and white 2 to ultra sun and moon along with any Nintendo game from 3ds. Game informer will be remembered for 33 years of info. 😞
Dang I'm getting older. I remember signing up for Game Informer when I was a kid and getting hyped for every magazine that would show up at my doorstep. I still have a small collection of them in my closet. Some were old enough that they have games like Max Payne 3 as the cover
The first Game Informer magazine I ever had covered Splatoon 1. I didn't read it thoroughly at the time since I wasn't much of a reader, but I probably still have it somewhere, that or I got rid of it.
This pretty much signals the death knell of video game magazines as a medium; the other publications in print are practically running on borrowed time. It’s fuckin’ depressing
“I’ll keep buying their products because they blatantly prioritize their financial dominance over my customer satisfaction.” - said no one, except probably Cybertruck owners
The closure is one thing, but to not have gameinformer write the send off and all of the website and Archives being deleted. That’s scummy right there!
I was an EBGames/GameStop manager from 2004-2008, and it was our job to sell GI as part of the store's loyalty program. I only did it because I was confident that GI was a good product. Although it was a matter of time, it's really a shame to lose them as an outlet and a resource.
It was one of my favorite magazines as kid, teenager, and young adult. Seeing it get treated this way was heartbreaking to me. I am going to need therapy
I lost some old GI mags thanks to hurricane Maria in 2017. But, I remember that despite the lack of the internet during the 2000s, I learned a lot about the upcoming games thanks to the magazine. Truly sad how it had to end...
As someone how used to LOVE Gamestop back in the early 2000s as I left middle school and went into high-school, and had a Game Informer subscription for almost a decade at that time, I am heartbroken at all this. All I can say now is I wish the best for the now former GI crew and all the innocent employees at the few GameStops left out there, and that the meme stock is no longer funny. Let just let the hedgefunds buy up what's left of GameStop and put this once amazing retail store for games out of its misery at long last.
I remember being absolutely amazed by the special 2010 edition where they had a huge mural painting of the top 30 protagonists of the decade and thinking it was the coolest thing ever when i was a kid
Par for the course for that company. I remember going in a Gamestop and seeing a box copy of City of Heroes. I told one of the employee: "you guys know that City of Heroes is available for free online, and it's shutting down in about a month". He replied: "Yeah, but we were told to keep the boxes on the shelves."
They did the same with Overwatch 1 at a GameStop near my house. It was only a dollar though. That being said the independent game store down the road is still selling overwatch 1 for 10-15. Like wow
I grew up with Game Informer and they have some good stuff, but yeah not exactly the most high quality, if not just shilling at times. Not sure what reading the room has to do with anything. Omg someone pointed out one minor criticism, why aren't they circlejerking and unconditionally positive
They pretty much they killed the last of the gaming magazines.... Thank you GameStop for killing another part of people's childhoods. What a week 220 people are out of the job from Bungie and now this😮
My memory of Game Informer was it being the only thing I really ever got in the mail as a kid. It was exciting for me to have something with my name on it sent to me.
gamestop should of went the retro route and they should buy and sell old games cause i like to go to a store and buy my games cause i can test the games there usually and if they are fake or not cause with ebay its possible to get a fake game and sure they sell retro games online but if i can go to my local store and buy something it be easier
games journalism has been dead on the "industry" level for years, independent TH-camrs without a degree in journalism do better jobs at journalism than they do, this is removing a tumor
I've taken so many shits with a Game Informer in hand since I was a kid. I remember looking forward to the new issue coming in the mail every month. I canceled my subscription years ago because it just wasn't worth keeping, but it'll always hold a special place in my heart. Still have dozens of copies stored away, along with other mags I used to get.
This one of the last magazines subscription I had for the longest time my dad got rid of due to not needing it anymore still sad thing to happen. I knew game journalist was down sipral but shutting down one influential game magazine even though its gone down hill
I feel like I'm one of the very few people who recognize that if you buy a game digitally, it's the same price as the physical game, but you also get a case, and with a few different games, you get a map and stuff that you can display as well. It's more for your money
So now a magazine will become $500+ online. Do these companies not realise once you stop making something, instances of that something get scalped up in price? It's not like we have 30+ years of this as proof. And it's totally not 100% of why people pirate/emulate video games.
@@thefiresworddragon927 Shame scalpers hoarders and price gougers are legal business but preservation and piravy aren't even though the two are similar, Internet archive does it and oh yes they got sued and lost why doesn't it work that way. If the archive was private like a museum people had to walk into would it be legal? We need a private archives museum
Back when I was a kid, I always read the pages of each Game Informer magazine! My personal memory was when I read a preview of Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. It compared to Halo, Master Chief. I didn't realize Game Informer was the oldest, I thought it was Nintendo Power! The staff worked very hard over there! GameStop is an evil organization to have us not access the website! Screw Gamestop!
When I was like 12 I decided to collect fake informer magazines. I had a massive folder full of them over time. Eventually I stopped and threw them away....now I wish I hadn't. Could send them in for preservation
This is f*cked. I was quite literally going to renew my membership for the physical later this week, because at the start of 2023 gamestop pro auto renewed to digital-only and I stopped getting them. I guess that was the first step in this silent shutdown... I will cherish my collection of around 30 GI mags always. Hopefully they give my children joy and inspiration as well.
I used to read Game Informer as a kid. It was a good move for Gamestop to get rid of it as not only are magazines long dead, but they need to cut any and all dead weight. This is great news for stockholders of gme and customers as well. Only 19 full time employees were let go, nothing like the 15,000 that Intel dropped a week ago. If we are going into a recession and the job report from last week basically assured that we are already in one, then cutting the fat is imperative to stay afloat as a business. Ryan Cohen made a smart move and is protecting the rest of the business.
If GameStop goes down under it is by their own hand, for a while they have made zero effort to turn themselves around. Farewell GameInformer, you gave me the best memories.
I used to subscribe to gameinformer for years and years, had so many magazines piling up. I was just a kid when i first started getting those, im 34 now. I ended up getting rid of them as i felt like a hoarder at the time. I always looked forward to each months magazine. Such sad news. SCREW GAMESTOP!
I really don't like GI.. I wish they archived the entire Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, EGM, PSM when their runs ended with all the DVD and Demo Discs included.
This could have and SHOULD HAVE been done with at keast a few months of advance notice. At least let them publish a last farewell issue! As someone who used to work in a physical game magazine for over a decade, this is incredibly sad and cynical😑
Everyone commenting about Gamestop has no idea what they are talking about. They saved a company that have hundreds of percent of short interest (future buyers) that were hoping it would go to zero so they could make bank and avoid taxes with it being delisted. The CEO turned the company profitable in a short time frame, has over 4 billion in cash w/ no debt in an economy that is about to have a lot of companies fail and need a buyer. I believe he already has been working on a merger/acquisition or two but literally keeps getting sued like clockwork for BS reasons. People need to realise gamestop isnt just a brick and mortar physical game store. THEY ARE A HOLDING COMPANY. Kinda like Berkshire Hathaway starting as a holding company from small textile manufacturing company. They have a TEDDY trade mark that has been active for a while and i think the spinoff will be to that and Ryan Cohen will take on Amazon again in all things baby-teen kids lives.
Not only does GameStop kill one of gaming's most culturally important insitutions in the history of gaming and one of the remaining physical game magazines, they literally wipe out all of their content and coverage by making the website completely inaccessible. Fuck GameStop and their CEO Ryan Cohen.
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GTA 6 better than physical sales
After gamers helped them by boosting their stock to save them from the short squeeze in 2021 this is how they repay us?
This is disgusting. Destroying how many decades of content...this is actually even worse then gross it's shady.
Thank you Chong Yue for the awesome news
Nuking the entire history of the website is pretty lame
Money man
Maybe Wayback Machine comes in handy?
@@Pearloryx Can confirm wayback has a shit ton of archive points for gameinformer
Storage is cheap. They could have announced it with adequate time, and people would have gladly preserved it with no cost to them.
It’s actually scary
I recall having a GameInformer magazine and I was reading it on the bus on the way to school as a kid. There was another kid who got on the bus and for whatever reason, no one would let him sit with them. I offered for him to sit near me, he saw my magazine and we talked all about games! From then on, we became great friends and still chat all these years later. I’m grateful that GameInformer provided me opportunities to connect with others.
Egregious.
All those Gameinformer magazines are now collectors items.
So glad I kept mine.
Same I only have a few left
I have about 60, maybe more, game informer magazines
So how much will they be worth now?
@@NameFaceless
lol nothing for a while. a lot of people keep shit now ever since their stuff from the 90s blew up in value. it will take time for them to gain value and thats because of todays internet where you an archive a lot of stuff and till more people lose or destroy their copy.
@@NameFaceless bet i can do is 5 dollar store credit
Okay, so, who's gonna upload all the magazines on the internet archive?
Don't worry it's only a matter of time, i bet the subreddit DataHoarder are on it as we speak if not z-lib
THIS
i dont have em all but i do have a quite a few
For real.
Yea they have been very hard to find in thoes book piraye sites. I lost all my pre 2009 ones. I have yet tp come to a library thay has any at all.
Game Informer literally outlasted “Electronic Gaming Monthly” and “GamePro” magazine, GameStop should’ve sold it off to someone who’d continue the magazine moving forward
Huh? gamepro is still around where I live ...
@@pingger1de1tl
Huh?
I'll admit I didn't check it super throughly, but wikipedia says it closed down in 2011. Maybe it's a similar name?
@@lightningninja6905 people didnt even know game informer was still around, yet are complaining its gone
@@CyrusIsnt Imagine comparing two different groups of people just to look dumb but feel smart lol everyone knew it was still around they just didn't care because it immediately lost it's magic when GameStop bought it. Everyone's just surprised they held a death grip on it without improving or rolling back the format to even try to increase sales back to normal and that it's lasted this long.
@@CyrusIsnt Oh wait you're some kid that wasn't even around for the hey day and the change my bad lol
I wish I saved my original magazines, it was such a good time receiving a new one.
I kept a whole stack of em from A LONG time ago like 2005 back when I had a subscription. Not in great condition some of them but..
@@frankmarano1118 they were gamestop ads magazines i mean some are on the internet archive though its all gone
I have a large stack of them
This is why you never pay for digital-only content. You pirate it.
@@RPGgamerWolfsame here man
I was a moderator on GamePro for years and the news came just as suddenly. Just a banner across the top of the site with a link to PC World for some reason and the rest of the site completely locked. We couldn't even say goodbye to each other. Still feels strange how that era of my life just suddenly ended one day.
I used to read GamePro! Too bad that it got skinnier than an Ethiopian at the end. My first one was the one with Sonic 2 by the way.
I'm not from the US so I don't know if that was the case with all american magazines... Bought a Gamepro in 1998 and it had hundreds of pages, but more than half of them were ads. Bought a french magazine at the time as well and it was way skinnier, but it had a lot more useful information in it. The ones I collected here in Brazil were much better too.
Man I loved gamepro
Damn dude I'm sorry to hear that. I loved Gamepro.
@@ScottyT9933 I'm pretty sure that it was one of the first to go.
And these are the same bastards that make stupid tweets like "bet you wish you bought physical now huh?" after the 360 store shut down. Screw you GameStop, I do buy physical but not from you. I also had physicals of these magazines, now most of its history online is gone. Thanks for, once again, being such a scummy company.
Pay them for it then.
@@CyrusIsnt Says the gamestop employee.
@@CyrusIsntlol, do you even read bro?
@@AppleInk They were losing money with game informer. And you want them to keep it up? For what? Maybe the last 2 issues but anything else?
No one gave a shit when it was ongoing, but now we care?
We knew gamestop was falling apart for years, physical magazines, and news blogs been dying for years.
If you really cared about the maganize you should be an active member
@@CyrusIsnt dude we care because it's gaming history sit tf down, you're part of the problem because you're complacent with it
I'm frankly surprised Gamestop is still even running at all.
There so bare bones it's ridiculous went to get a physical of copy of elden ring they told me there site doesn't even carry elden ring
Feels like Blockbuster doesn’t deserve a downfall but it should’ve been GameStop.
I stopped going to them in 2016. Had 5 games ready to buy only for them to say they’re out of stock I now buy new games off of Amazon or retro game sites or go to my local retro game store where funny enough I’ve gotten more money back when I had doubles in my game collection Fuck GameStop is all I say
They are the only site that sells to the US colonies. So they make their money here.
The company has no debt and is in a good place financially
I would sit and read gaming mags cover to cover multiple times in the 90s. I would bring a pad and paper to the grocery store and sit in the isle whike my mom shopped writting down codes hints and tips. It was before the internet boom and the excitment when a new issue was delivered will never be forgotten. I hope the staff that lost their jobs find something even better asap.
That's horrible. I remember getting game informer magazine in my mail and being so excited. Those were the days.
GameStop would rather sell their fugly Funko Pops rather than maintain one of the most well-known gaming magazines.
Half of those are Deadpool
@@lonerdreamer92 whay maintain something not making money nor getting attention
Most disappointing game magazine. They plummeted in quality around the 2010s
What does that have to do with Funkos? What a weird angle to come with.
@Nivedoloplad Just someone projecting their own insecurities.
To them, collecting magazines is less "nerdy" or "cringe" than bobbleheads and gives them a sense of superiority.
Still have my “a look at Destiny” game informer before d1 was released. Looking at the exotics close up with the descriptions of the classes man. Truly glad to have been part of it.
It's unfortunate after all these years, even destiny is in trouble these days
Honestly this kinda thing scares me as we get deeper and deeper into the tech age. The upper ranks of society completely erasing history. Yes, this was just a magazine, but the concept is all the same.
How Fucking Unacceptable.
Kotaku on the other hand is full of sht
Kotaku needs to go the way of the Dodo, the senior editor is a nasty hateful individual.
@@D4rkKn1ght311 Exactly, she is so vitriolic towards anyone that doesn't share her political views. She is really a garbage human.
Why bother with sites like that when we have people like Yong doing the lords work? They aren’t worth giving the engagement!
Cry more holy, kids these days are so ill, get a farm
If any of you listened to any former gamestop employees (like Silent Rob) you would know that they [GameStop] are both ANTI-CONSUMER and ANTI-EMPLOYEE. Screw them.
This is why I tell people the stock market needs to be dismantled. The sooner that happens the sooner people will be FORCED to be pro-consumer. Screw Shareholders being literal leeches on the economy.
The fact that Kotaku has outlived Game Informer, is messed up in an of itself.
So, this is how GameInformer ends; not with a bang, but a whimper.
tbh, the website articles have been utter s**t... the old mags, up until like 5 maybe 6 years ago are like, the only thing worth it, the newer ones where dog s**t.
That’s what happens when gamers assume that massive corporations are our friends
Join the club.
Nah.. it was a whimper followed up with 2 bangs... In gamestop's backyard..
The only reason I kept my Pro membership with GameStop as long as I did was for the GameInformer subscription that came with it. Damn shame.
I remember the smell of a brand new copy of Game Informer. Never thought it would end this way...
I'd say GameStop is destined to go the way of Blockbuster, but then I remember there's a key difference:
People still have fond memories of Blockbuster. Nobody's going to give the slightest $#!+ about GameStop.
Kind of? I love the brick and mortar feel of old school GameStop (before the Funko bullshit). However, I think once GameStop is gone and the other retailers stop carrying games because of digital sales taking over people will miss GameStop. They won't miss corporate being dumb asses but they'll miss midnight launches and sales.
I miss when gamestop was funcoland lol
My only fond memories will be playing Rayman Legends demo. Other than that, yeah, no shits given.
No no, we hated blockbuster at the time. Rose tinted glasses for the past. The small local video store was usually better, but less selection (particularly because of film distribution companies working with blockbuster)
Blockbuster went under because of another idiot like the one running gamestop
I cried like a baby when PSN went under and was "" merged "" with Official PlayStation Magazine. However, ditching Game Informer? That's a big chunk of your gamer youth. FFS.
Loved PSN Magazine!
@@the80sguy80 best SFW character art in town and great articles. it was amazing.
My local GameStop literally closed its doors and emptied out last week without warning. The next closest one I went to this week had all its lights turned off and a bunch of blow out sales(still over priced af). Super weird and although I hate the company it’s a vast vestige for physical media :/
The fact they nuked Gameinformer out of a whim and issue a farewell statement that was apparently AI generated shows you how little GameStop cares about their company
Or their staff, having to find out the same day.
I’ve got a couple GameStop gift cards. I’m cashing out asap lol
I swear mobody hates the gaming industry more or has oess respect for the gaming industry than the gaming industry itself. You don't see film, music, or even more ephemeral media like radio or dance treating their history as sonething to actively be discarded once it can no longer actively produce incressing profits.
the comics industry is doing the same thing and actively going broke for it. This is what happens when your only goal is to promote a political agenda instead of selling a product. lessons learned the hard way but is still deserved.
I'm glad I still have like 100 copies of Nintendo Power still around.
This reminds me of when Telltale Games shutdown. One day everyone had a job, the next day everything got shut down. And this year has been a bloodbath for the gaming industry on all fields.
We used to have a library period in elementary school. All my friends and I would immediately try to hover over the game informer magazines and talk video games the whole 45 minutes. I still remember the Game Informer issue with RE4’s Leon Kennedy on the cover. Game informer, you will be missed 😢
Man, my Funcoland card with the Game Informer subscription was my childhood! I had a subscription non-stop from 1st grade through high school which included that issue with Cloud on the cover at 3:02. Last time I looked I think the only original guy left on staff was Reiner. Still remember that guy after all these years going from a young guy to graying.
😂 damn haven't said that name in a long time.
Oh wow, I had actually forgotten that Game Informer started with Funcoland! I know I had some issues in the 90s but it's hard to remember which. After googling I'm pretty sure I had issue 27 from July 1995 with _The Adventures of Batman and Robin_ on the cover.
How do you manage to throw away the former CEO OF NINTENDO! When you are begging for help!?
Edit: Poor choice of words, but I'm basically saying you're screwed when a former GOOD CEO doesn't want to help
They didn’t throw him away, he left when it was clear they had no plan and no answers.
He left when he saw the money being siphoned.
They didn't throw the CEO. The CEO left them. They were incompetent.
Would be pretty ironic that GameStop is the next to get shut down
One of the reasons why I stopped buying physical games is because these guys have ruined my experience with the market. They are incredibly distasteful.
Not yet. First Kongregate gets shut down and then Gamestop. Kongregate is their last line of defense from shutting down. ThinkGeek got defunct in 21. 3 years ago. And Kongregate is not doing gamestop any favors other than being a service to milk the last bit of money from.
Cutting costs... That's literally the one and only thing this industry's leaders care about
Gamestop don't issue refunds for anything. EVER.
Which is highly illegal
i remembered seeing game informer magazines growing with the upcoming games such as Pokémon black and white 2 to ultra sun and moon along with any Nintendo game from 3ds. Game informer will be remembered for 33 years of info. 😞
Remember when I first subbed Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks was on the cover. Good times.
They should of sold it and made some money back. The broke bastards.
They’re not broke.they have 4 billion in cash.
Not broke. Greedy.
@@tjenadonn6158not greedy enough
They probably tried, but physical media is dying. Also sms destroyed bloggs
@@JC-jz6rx t's currently doing nothing for them, parked in T-Bills.
Dang I'm getting older. I remember signing up for Game Informer when I was a kid and getting hyped for every magazine that would show up at my doorstep. I still have a small collection of them in my closet. Some were old enough that they have games like Max Payne 3 as the cover
The first Game Informer magazine I ever had covered Splatoon 1. I didn't read it thoroughly at the time since I wasn't much of a reader, but I probably still have it somewhere, that or I got rid of it.
This pretty much signals the death knell of video game magazines as a medium; the other publications in print are practically running on borrowed time.
It’s fuckin’ depressing
Doesn't make it any better knowing that my mom threw out all of my gameinformer magazines from 2007 back in 2018
Same.. I had kept all my GI EGM and GamePros since the 90s and the rents chucked em in the bin without asking when they moved to FL years ago.
@@LuckyLuch1 Man I can just imagine how much those magazines are going to cost now on ebay
If you think that's bad wait until I tell you what my mom did to my first gen Pokemon cards.
@@barkter she threw those away too or did she sell them? I would've been less mad if they got sold.
@@SkyWarrior100 I think she sold all 400 of them for like 50¢. And I don't mean each
“I’ll keep buying their products because they blatantly prioritize their financial dominance over my customer satisfaction.” - said no one, except probably Cybertruck owners
We gamers really are fucked aren't we?
The games industry doesn't deserve gamers, or the boots-on-the-ground developers who actually make the games for that matter.
Yes
Indy games and old games will save us. The AAA companies are also fucked in the pocketbook, which is all the care about.
Not necessarily. We just have to ride out this storm of stupidity. It will end eventually, and a market rebuild.
We're oppressed bro
The closure is one thing, but to not have gameinformer write the send off and all of the website and Archives being deleted. That’s scummy right there!
Thanks for the coverage as always 👊🏿
I'm surprised that Game informer lasted this long.
Fun fact: Assets used for this page on their website are located in a directory appropriately called "farewall"
I refuse to buy AAA games digitally. Indie games absolutely! But never a AAA.
It won't help seeing how many of them even single player ones require online services. Also I buy them somewhere else than Gamestop.
If I buy games it's indie or older games that are better than most AAA games today.
Wow. Your loss then
@@carlost856 GOG goes brrrr. Not releasing on GOG? Not buying.
This has been my stance for a long time
This is why physical media needs to stick around. Companies do not care about preservation and it’s sad.
Because Corporations and the mega rich want to own everything and revert back to feudalism. 'you will own nothing and be happy.'
I was an EBGames/GameStop manager from 2004-2008, and it was our job to sell GI as part of the store's loyalty program. I only did it because I was confident that GI was a good product. Although it was a matter of time, it's really a shame to lose them as an outlet and a resource.
It was one of my favorite magazines as kid, teenager, and young adult. Seeing it get treated this way was heartbreaking to me. I am going to need therapy
I remember tips and tricks and game informer for 20 years
This is the fate of “gaming journalists”. Years of your work will simply disappear, as if you never existed.
Nature is healing.
Not until kotaku goes under
I used to get loaded on junk n go read magazines at my local hastings. Those were days
Hastings... What a store.
I lost some old GI mags thanks to hurricane Maria in 2017. But, I remember that despite the lack of the internet during the 2000s, I learned a lot about the upcoming games thanks to the magazine. Truly sad how it had to end...
As someone how used to LOVE Gamestop back in the early 2000s as I left middle school and went into high-school, and had a Game Informer subscription for almost a decade at that time, I am heartbroken at all this. All I can say now is I wish the best for the now former GI crew and all the innocent employees at the few GameStops left out there, and that the meme stock is no longer funny. Let just let the hedgefunds buy up what's left of GameStop and put this once amazing retail store for games out of its misery at long last.
I have my collection going all the way back to 2006. It's sad to see it go.
What an awful few days for gaming
I remember being absolutely amazed by the special 2010 edition where they had a huge mural painting of the top 30 protagonists of the decade and thinking it was the coolest thing ever when i was a kid
Par for the course for that company. I remember going in a Gamestop and seeing a box copy of City of Heroes. I told one of the employee: "you guys know that City of Heroes is available for free online, and it's shutting down in about a month". He replied: "Yeah, but we were told to keep the boxes on the shelves."
They did the same with Overwatch 1 at a GameStop near my house. It was only a dollar though. That being said the independent game store down the road is still selling overwatch 1 for 10-15. Like wow
How do corporations manage to always do the worst thing.
Weird that this happens at the same time CEO Ryan Cohen is being investigated for insider trading...?
It wouldn't surprise me at all if in a few years we see a "reimagined" game informer as a game article website entirely written by ai...
I quit reading Game Informer a long time ago. Def have fond memories, but I'm genuinely shocked they lasted this long
Ok. Reading the room is hard
I grew up with Game Informer and they have some good stuff, but yeah not exactly the most high quality, if not just shilling at times.
Not sure what reading the room has to do with anything. Omg someone pointed out one minor criticism, why aren't they circlejerking and unconditionally positive
@@Planag7 apparently so is scrolling past a comment
I still collect their magazines, they were a part of my childhood. I'm actually sad that it's ending.
They pretty much they killed the last of the gaming magazines.... Thank you GameStop for killing another part of people's childhoods.
What a week 220 people are out of the job from Bungie and now this😮
I have all my issues from October 2008 to like 2016 and this makes me sad
This'll bite 'em in the ass, mark my words. As word gets out, their sales will drop like a rock.
@@xenogorwraithblade2538because magazines are just SO in style nowadays lmao
@samspamii7801 sarcasm you sped
My memory of Game Informer was it being the only thing I really ever got in the mail as a kid. It was exciting for me to have something with my name on it sent to me.
This is sad news. I still have dozens of their magazines.
Holy crap, that tweet by them was so mocking. Disgusting.
gamestop should of went the retro route and they should buy and sell old games cause i like to go to a store and buy my games cause i can test the games there usually and if they are fake or not cause with ebay its possible to get a fake game and sure they sell retro games online but if i can go to my local store and buy something it be easier
games journalism has been dead on the "industry" level for years, independent TH-camrs without a degree in journalism do better jobs at journalism than they do, this is removing a tumor
Finally, a real comment. Real gamers aren't reading magazines anymore when youtube can do the same thing for free and much, much better.
TH-camrs can't write. Ashwipe.
A love and hate relationship
I've taken so many shits with a Game Informer in hand since I was a kid. I remember looking forward to the new issue coming in the mail every month.
I canceled my subscription years ago because it just wasn't worth keeping, but it'll always hold a special place in my heart. Still have dozens of copies stored away, along with other mags I used to get.
This brutal shutdown gamestop did to gameinformer is just like when Warner Bros Discovery shut down Rooster Teeth after being around for 21 years.
If a new mid-budget game was released on physical media once a week for Switch, PS5, and Xbox, GameStop wouldn't be having such a hard time.
We need more games like Katamari Damacy
This one of the last magazines subscription I had for the longest time my dad got rid of due to not needing it anymore still sad thing to happen. I knew game journalist was down sipral but shutting down one influential game magazine even though its gone down hill
I feel like I'm one of the very few people who recognize that if you buy a game digitally, it's the same price as the physical game, but you also get a case, and with a few different games, you get a map and stuff that you can display as well. It's more for your money
So now a magazine will become $500+ online. Do these companies not realise once you stop making something, instances of that something get scalped up in price? It's not like we have 30+ years of this as proof. And it's totally not 100% of why people pirate/emulate video games.
first sale doctrine, i mean if you dont like it you can lobby to get first sale doctrine removed
@@joshallen128 Ah yes, do something that won't work, last I checked that totally went well these past 40 years.
@@thefiresworddragon927 relax new management of game informer after GameStop goes bust will revive the brand
@@thefiresworddragon927 Shame scalpers hoarders and price gougers are legal business but preservation and piravy aren't even though the two are similar, Internet archive does it and oh yes they got sued and lost why doesn't it work that way. If the archive was private like a museum people had to walk into would it be legal? We need a private archives museum
This is why the wayback machine is important.
Yep
video game journalism is dead
I have fond memories but honestly I’m shocked this didn’t happen sooner. I loved GameInformer
Damn I think I threw all my Game Informer magazines away. That sucks…… 😭
Back when I was a kid, I always read the pages of each Game Informer magazine! My personal memory was when I read a preview of Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. It compared to Halo, Master Chief. I didn't realize Game Informer was the oldest, I thought it was Nintendo Power! The staff worked very hard over there! GameStop is an evil organization to have us not access the website! Screw Gamestop!
Gamestop only had online editions of game informer not physical. That's why I didn't renew my subscription
Not true when you purchase pro membership you have a choice to get the actual magazine or the online editions through the app
When I was like 12 I decided to collect fake informer magazines. I had a massive folder full of them over time. Eventually I stopped and threw them away....now I wish I hadn't. Could send them in for preservation
This is f*cked. I was quite literally going to renew my membership for the physical later this week, because at the start of 2023 gamestop pro auto renewed to digital-only and I stopped getting them. I guess that was the first step in this silent shutdown... I will cherish my collection of around 30 GI mags always. Hopefully they give my children joy and inspiration as well.
I used to read Game Informer as a kid. It was a good move for Gamestop to get rid of it as not only are magazines long dead, but they need to cut any and all dead weight. This is great news for stockholders of gme and customers as well. Only 19 full time employees were let go, nothing like the 15,000 that Intel dropped a week ago. If we are going into a recession and the job report from last week basically assured that we are already in one, then cutting the fat is imperative to stay afloat as a business. Ryan Cohen made a smart move and is protecting the rest of the business.
Can't wait to see the day GameStop shuts down at this point.
TH-cam IS the game informer. And you don’t even have to be harassed by GameStop
Nahh… it kinda depends on who’s giving good info, or maybe misinformation.
And here I was super excited to resub for the physical magazines again a few months ago. I'm very disappointed
My wife made me throw away a box of game informer mags about 50 when i met her 5 years ago (she said everything is on the internet)
Uh no, Yong, GI is NOT the oldest. I don't know which is, but I was reading EGM, GamePro, and Nintendo Power in the late 80s.
If GameStop goes down under it is by their own hand, for a while they have made zero effort to turn themselves around. Farewell GameInformer, you gave me the best memories.
I'd rather have game informer then game stop
They didn't even give them a farewell magazine, what a bunch of scumbags.
I used to subscribe to gameinformer for years and years, had so many magazines piling up. I was just a kid when i first started getting those, im 34 now. I ended up getting rid of them as i felt like a hoarder at the time. I always looked forward to each months magazine. Such sad news. SCREW GAMESTOP!
Even though I've paid for the premium Gamestop membership every year, I haven't received a "Game Informer" magazine in a couple of years now.
I really don't like GI.. I wish they archived the entire Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, EGM, PSM when their runs ended with all the DVD and Demo Discs included.
This could have and SHOULD HAVE been done with at keast a few months of advance notice. At least let them publish a last farewell issue!
As someone who used to work in a physical game magazine for over a decade, this is incredibly sad and cynical😑
Everyone commenting about Gamestop has no idea what they are talking about. They saved a company that have hundreds of percent of short interest (future buyers) that were hoping it would go to zero so they could make bank and avoid taxes with it being delisted. The CEO turned the company profitable in a short time frame, has over 4 billion in cash w/ no debt in an economy that is about to have a lot of companies fail and need a buyer. I believe he already has been working on a merger/acquisition or two but literally keeps getting sued like clockwork for BS reasons. People need to realise gamestop isnt just a brick and mortar physical game store. THEY ARE A HOLDING COMPANY. Kinda like Berkshire Hathaway starting as a holding company from small textile manufacturing company. They have a TEDDY trade mark that has been active for a while and i think the spinoff will be to that and Ryan Cohen will take on Amazon again in all things baby-teen kids lives.