GameStop Shuts Down Game Informer, The Longest-Running Gaming Magazine In The US [Update]
kotaku.com
The meme stock gaming retailer is laying off staff and taking the website offline
  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    By now we probably need a concept like “grief in late stage capitalism” or some such thing: The constant mourning for lost achievements/(art) works/creative teams/… because of capitalist greed.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 months ago

      It’s our fault. When’s the last time you bought a magazine? The last Game Informer I bought was at an airport over 20 years ago.

      Although I think they could have at least tried to salvage it by letting everyone know months earlier to give nostalgia fans a chance to save it. Make it Game Informer Quarterly or even Game Informer 2024.

  • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    5 months ago

    I was an avid Nintendo power reader back in the day, does anyone have nostalgia for game informer? Iirc it was a bit more advertisement heavy.

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
      3·
      5 months ago

      Ah, good toilet reading before mobile phones filled that niche. Used to get a subscription as part of their rewards or something program…it was pretty good but you had to take all the reviews with a grain off salt…

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    5 months ago

    That’s a bummer, I was pretty happy to see it when I signed up for whatever the power pro club is or whatever and I got it for free, it was put together just as well as it had been 20 years ago, there was a lot of effort and talent put into its pages.

    But around every corner there’s a blog with more research into any topic within that magazine and the magazine could ever keep up with…all content…so…ot’s been real, GI.

    Hats off

  • ProIsh@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    Oh dangit. The only magazine I subscribed to. Only like 30 bucks a year. Thanks for the good content over the many years