Game Informer shut down

[Infinitron]

 

[Tyranicon]

-goes to game informer-

Sees first headline article

-leaves game informer-

 

[rubinstein]

 

[Infinitron]

PC Gamer and Edge Magazine (both owned by Future Publishing) seem to be the last major print magazines standing. How much longer will they survive?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

After the sort of recycled piecemeal content that they kept on publishing for DATV throughout last month due to their exclusive coverage rights for it, good riddance. A quality news platform it was not.

 

[Vic]

who cares?

 

[Vic]

 

[Maxie]

when was the last time you thought damn game informer really convinced me to try this fucking game thanks game informer

 

[NecroLord]

How much longer will they survive?

Tick.
Tock.

 

[Terenty]

Hopefully all the others will follow suit

 

[Fedora Master]

PC Gamer and Edge Magazine (both owned by Future Publishing) seem to be the last major print magazines standing. How much longer will they survive?

Not long if your fell gaze falls upon them, I'm sure.

 

[DemonKing]

PC Gamer and Edge Magazine (both owned by Future Publishing) seem to be the last major print magazines standing. How much longer will they survive?

Print is kind of pointless these days - all the info they used to deseminate is now available much quicker and for free on the web.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I wager Polygon is next.

 

[Hobknobling]

PC Gamer and Edge Magazine (both owned by Future Publishing) seem to be the last major print magazines standing. How much longer will they survive?

Print is kind of pointless these days - all the info they used to deseminate is now available much quicker and for free on the web.

Printed news and time-critical product reviews are dead in the water, but I am 100% certain that people would be willing to fork out money for something more substantial.

I personally used to be subscribed to The Blizzard which is a quarterly football publication. It is basically a small book of 200-pages you get via mail and each shipped book was around 10 euros. I stopped the subscription because they had issues with the shipping and some of the writing started to get a bit too political after the spread of the Twitter derangement syndrome. I still think this format could be the way for the traditional subscription-based print media to survive, but almost nobody is giving it a spin.

Here is the table of contents for the latest issue so you get a better gist of the style of writing and topics:

In This Issue​

TOURNAMENTS​

March of the Zombie Elephants – Jonathan Wilson
Cote d’Ivoire kept looking out of the Cup of Nations but claimed an implausible triumph
Coming Home – Alasdair Howarth
The trend is clear: African teams are turning more and more to African coaches
Herding Eagles – Osasu Obayiuwana
José Peseiro is just the latest coach to find managing Nigeria an almost impossible task
Reputation Restored – John Duerden
After a miserable performance at the World Cup, Qatar retained their Asian Cup crown
Perspective – Sam Kunti
As war devastated Gaza, Palestine’s players achieved a best-ever Asian Cup performance

A FOREIGN COUNTRY​

Guns and the Grail – Roger Domeneghetti
How Derry City overcame political chaos to win the Irish treble in 1988-89
The Dissident – Brendan Madden
Isaiah Stein was an anti-Apartheid campaigner who fled South Africa. His sons were Luton legends

INDIVIDUALS​

A Scorer of Great Goals – Osasu Obayiuwana
Tony Yeboah talks about life in Europe, Jupp Heynckes and Howard Wilkinson
The Go-Between – Daniel Rey
The Way of the Scorpion and a player destined to be forever misunderstood
The Manager Who Sold Himself – John Irving
Ivor Broadis, the bonds of football and the joys of Carlisle childhood

THE MODERN GAME​

The Little Rebel – Jonathan Wilson
Sweden, the rejection of VAR and the limitations of an anti-establishment ethos
The KAMAZ of Forgetting – Sergey Bondarenko
A Russian fan and dealing with disillusionment after the invasion of Ukraine
200 Days of Ange – Phil Walker
How a new manager with new ideas has bred new hope at Tottenham
Come to see Cristiano? – John Duerden
Al-Hilal v Al-Nassr and the experience of attending the Riyahd derby in the days of plenty
The Nostalgia Principle – Peter Speetjens
Diniz, Fluminense, Brazil and the fragile rise of the pioneer of relationism

THEORY​

Temporal Binding Windows of the Soul – Ben Gilbert
How modern behavioural neuroscience proves that goalkeepers really are different

https://theblizzard.co.uk/sampler/issue-fifty-two/

 

[Lucumo]

Some of these sound like Youtube video titles...just need a word or two in all caps.

 

[catfood]

 

[motherfucker]

Who?

 

[Vic]

So game informer was the tabloid of gaming magazines?

I do miss gaming magazines. Everything digital is so low effort. And nowadays it's even worse and probably AI generated too.

There is an internet archive page that has a lot of gaming mags archived btw.

 

[processdaemon]

It's interesting that they gave up the ghost straight after all the Veilguard promos. I wonder if they were hoping that would generate enough traffic to keep them limping along a bit longer but it failed to live up to expectations?

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

I used to love reading Gaming Magazines while pooping on the toilet.

 

[Outlander]

 

[Infinitron]

They deleted the Twitter account. Scorched earth.

 

[Tweed]

The last time I has a sub was way back when I had a Gamestop card for buying used games for my Gamecube.

So sad.

 

[Roguey]

All the Veilguard articles are now deleted.

 

[Jaesun]

And nothing of any value was lost....