Game Informer is shutting down

[kdslittlebro]

Damn I remember renewing that mf at Gamestop faithfully. Probably still got a chunk of em in shoeboxes at mom’s crib. Ironically I don’t think I was ever as informed of what was going on in the industry as I was reading those. That toilet reading before cellphones

What print magazines are even thriving atp?

 

[Dem313wayz]

Wow I remember getting the magazines as a kid

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Mannnn that issue alone would be like a holy grail. They could had made millions off of that alone for collectors


Imagine holding the final Game Informer magazine for your grand joeys to see

I would have copped

 

[Luke Cage]

I trusted their reviews more than IGN

 

[parallax]

Gamepro, Egm, egm2, video games magazine and it's tips and tricks spin off,next generation and gamefan all kept a young me fed on these gaming streets. Nothing like buying a magazine in the store and reading it all the way home, then scanning every bit of info you could. I wish I could remember which magazine it was, but it had a virtua fighter guide in it that I used to fukk up this a$$hole at the arcade I used to go to in marina del Rey. And another magazine burns out amongst the others lost

 

[BobbyWojak]

End of an era, there was a time during my childhood when I wanted nothing more than to write for a gaming magazine, and now they're almost all gone.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Luke Cage]

Damn, i bet the issues will be collectibles now. Should have saved them

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Damn, i bet the issues will be collectibles now. Should have saved them

Check in your bathroom

 

[ORDER_66]

They always had amazing covers....

 

[Regular_P]

Game Players/Ultra Game Players was my favorite as a kid.

I can't be the only one who sent in those subscription cards with "pay later" checked as a 12 year old, got a bunch of issues for free and never paid.

 

[spacewraith]

I remember being a kid and being jealous of the other kids flexing their recently issued game informers

 

[duckbutta]

Kim Kardashians original face

Put this video in a time capsule

 

[Primetime]

To echo others, GamePro was my childhood, as well as the mag that had the ps1 disk with playable demos. But I also remember Game Informer as an OG.

From 99 to 2003. it was an annual tradition to buy the Fall issues of these gaming mags with the reviews and featurettes of all the anticipated games i wanted for Christmas. Crash Warped, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, GTA, etc

Obviously IGN and GameSpot took over shortly after with the dot com explosion, but the magazine era... hell, the Toys R Us shopping catalogue era.. is something I'll always look back on fondly.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]