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

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• FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I LOVED the print version back in the day. It was a quality publication.

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I read the digital edition in high school, the covers were a lot more fun in print!

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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!

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• millie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Let’s compare circulation numbers:

    • Game Pro: 558,269 (2003)
    • Nintendo Power: 435,000 (2005)
    • Game Informer: 4,056,941 (2015)

    I’d say they led by at least a few copies

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    • millie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

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• Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    People are losing their jobs

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    • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      There are too many people on the planet, can’t care about them all.

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    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Oh no...

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