Game Informer is shutting down

Game Informer, 1 of the past remaining gaming magazines, is shutting down aft 33 years, the GameStop-owned work announced connected Friday. The magazine’s full unit is being laid off, Kotaku reports.

In its connection posted to X, the work didn’t springiness a crushed for the shutdown. GameStop didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. Last year, GameStop CEO and president Ryan Cohen told unit that “every disbursal astatine the institution indispensable beryllium scrutinized nether a microscope and each discarded eliminated,” according to an email obtained by Kotaku.

In March, Game Informer introduced retired a mode to subscribe to the mag directly — previously, you could lone get the mag by buying issues connected their ain oregon done a GameStop Pro subscription. “Hard times, layoffs, cancellations, and closures person impacted thousands of crippled developers and publishers, arsenic good arsenic different outlets similar america that observe games,” editor-in-chief Matt Miller wrote successful that announcement. “We haven’t been immune to that hardship.”

Here is the afloat shutdown connection from Game Informer’s X relationship and Game Informer’s subscription page: