Game Informer magazine announced its closure on Friday after 33 years of publication. Typically sold with parent company GameStop’s customer reward memberships, it was the longest-running print.
The big picture: Print magazines covering gaming have suffered a long, slow death since the emergence of online media. One publication maintained wide circulation as its contemporaries fell all around it. Unfortunately, the magazine couldn’t escape its parent company’s growing financial struggles.
Game Informer magazine announced its closure on Friday after 33 years of publication. Typically sold with parent company GameStop’s customer reward memberships, it was the longest-running print gaming magazine in the US and briefly the most widely circulated.
The Game Informer website now only displays a simple splash screen with a farewell message. Issue 367, featuring a cover story on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, will be its last.
