Game Informer The Game Magazine, a gaming magazine with a publishing history of over 30 years, appears to be being shut down by its parent company, a brick-and-mortar video game chain. Meme Stock GameStop.
“After 33 thrilling years of bringing you the latest updates, reviews, and insights into the ever-evolving games industry, it is with a heavy heart that we announce that Game Informer will be closing its doors,” reads a statement on the Game Informer website. Website and X Account on friday.
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“Our printing presses may stop, but the passion for the game we developed together will live on,” the statement continued.
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But with the demise of America’s longest-running gaming magazine, Game Informer What won’t remain is the entire digital archive of the video game publication. The GameInformer.com domain name will now direct to a landing page that displays only the closure announcement. All internal links on the Game Informer website will also direct to the same page, meaning previously published news articles, reviews and other content will no longer be viewable.
Loss of digital archives is becoming all too common
OriginalGame Informer The magazine is led by content director Kyle Hilliard. More than half After receiving news that the parent company was ceasing publication of the magazine, the publication of the next issue was cancelled.
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“Game Informer has been shut down by GameStop and all of our extremely talented staff (including me) have been laid off,” Hilliard posted on X on Friday.
GameStop’s decision to suddenly discontinue the gaming magazines it acquired in 2000 was apparently Game Informeremployees were caught off guard, and as a result, they likely did not have a chance to archive their work before the company took the website content offline.
Unfortunately, the closure or deletion of online archives is becoming all too common across the digital media industry, resulting in content being lost over time. Most recently, Paramount MTV News website shuts down More than a year after the news organization closed, so did its digital archive. Reporters as well as fans of the organization lamented the loss of years of interviews and other MTV News-related content. The Internet Archive appears to have a significant archive of Game Informer content, but Internet Archive documents are typically incomplete snapshots of the original files, with altered formatting and missing elements.
GameStop has struggled in recent years to adapt to the shift from physical to digital media in the video game industry. The meme-stock boom of 2021 has helped the company, but GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen Recently called As the problems continue, he advocates “extreme frugality.”
Mashable has reached out to GameStop to confirm that the archives are gone and to ask if they’ll be available in the future, and will update if we hear back.
