Game Informer magazine closes abruptly after 33 years in publication

The favored online game journal and web site Sport Informer instantly shut down Friday after greater than 30 years in publication.

Sport Informer’s employees had been requested Friday morning to attend a employees assembly the place representatives from dad or mum firm GameStop instructed them they had been all being laid off, in accordance with one of many employees members within the assembly.

“After 33 thrilling years of bringing you the newest information, evaluations and insights from the ever-evolving world of gaming, it’s with a heavy coronary heart that we announce the closure of Sport Informer,” the journal stated in a submit Friday on X. “From the early days of pixelated adventures to in the present day’s immersive digital realms, we’ve been honored to share this unbelievable journey with you, our loyal readers. Whereas our presses could cease, the eagerness for gaming that we’ve cultivated collectively will proceed to stay on. Thanks for being a part of our epic quest, and should your individual gaming adventures by no means finish.”

All hyperlinks to Sport Informer’s web site now redirect to a web page with the assertion. It’s unclear if the content material from the journal’s web site can be archived and made accessible.

Sport Informer, which launched in 1991, had a worldwide subscriber base of greater than 6 million players. There have been 13 individuals together with editors listed on its employees web page as just lately as a number of days in the past.

“Sport Informer has been closed down by GameStop and your complete, extremely gifted employees (together with myself) have all been laid off,” Kyle Hilliard, Sport Informer’s native journal content material director, wrote Friday on X. “A irritating flip of occasions (particularly contemplating we had been about 70% finished with the following situation and it was going to have a GREAT cowl).”

GameStop has had monetary points for years as gaming has transitioned away from customers shopping for bodily copies bought in shops to downloading digital video games and updates by way of providers like PlayStation Community, Xbox Reside and Steam. In June, the corporate introduced it misplaced greater than $32 million in its first quarter.

As of Friday afternoon, GameStop hadn’t responded to requests for remark concerning the closing of Sport Informer.