There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Dud ,
@Dud@lemmy.world avatar

Well, probably should go archive the old crew Super Replays. Hearing Dan’s laugh as Reiner loses his shit at him is like an old comfort blanket.

SidewaysHighways ,

Reiner was my favorite always and forever

Dud ,
@Dud@lemmy.world avatar

Tim, Dan, and Reiner in any horror themed Super Replay is fantastic. I went through a really rough separation and I needed something happy-ish to fill the dead noise at night and found the Megaman Legends Super Replay and the rest is history.

ZeroTwo ,

Thank you, GI, for years and years of awesome magazines when I was a kid.

pyre ,

one of the few publications that seemed to do actual work. what a shame.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Indeed. Its sad to see a reputable name go before something far less reputable, like Kotaku for example.

I guess it must be true, hate clicks and outrage do generate more revenue than real, genuine gaming articles written with pretty good journalistic integrity.

pyre ,

eh, kotaku has some solid articles and reporting as well. gaming journalism in general is incestuous shit but most of the anti-kotaku sentiment comes from goonergate shit

Ashtear ,

The hilarious thing about you getting downvotes immediately is Kotaku led the reporting on this news this morning. Link is in the posted article, y’all.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Of course Kotaku is going to report on it. They want in on the outrage of companies firing employees that has been happening lately.

They were throwing temper tantrums over the owner of Kotaku telling them that they needed to write more gaming guides/articles instead of the social culture outrage garbage they had been spewing that tarnished their reputation. Imagine working for a gaming media outlet, and then getting mad when the owner tells you that you need to focus on gaming articles.

rozodru ,
@rozodru@lemmy.ca avatar

had a subscription to GI years and years ago. it came with the Gamestop membership thing.

I miss old gaming mags like this, EGM, GamePro, etc. man EGM used to be THICK, it was like buying a catalog every month.

KeefChief13 ,

GamePro was fantastic

SnowGator ,

I just signed up for their 2 year subscription deal, and always looked forward to getting my latest edition. Also listened to their podcast, which was great too. Super bummed about this.

Aielman15 ,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck. It was one of the few remaining good videogame-related publications. They will be sorely missed.

Where to go from here?

ByteOnBikes ,

I remember absolutely being a fanboy in the 90s. It was so much better than it’s rivals like EGM and GamePro.

But around 2005, either I aged out of it or the magazine got worse. Then I remember GameStop giving it for free at some point. I just remember it being a shell of a shell of a magazine, as the rest of the gaming industry moved to gaming blogs.

Ashtear ,

The Gamestop deal would have been 2002-ish. I actually hadn’t heard of the magazine before we started pushing it in the store. With Game Informer’s features mirroring our store marketing, it was the first time I realized how incestuous the industry was (easy to see the signs of it now when looking back at even older mags). The bizarre amount of coverage it had on the PS2 game State of Emergency was one example from the time. It’s wild to me to hear it being called reputable here and elsewhere today when it had such a fundamental conflict of interest for the vast majority of its run.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Well, I guess this is an early sign to say RIP to GameStop too.

iAmTheTot ,

I don’t really think that’s fair.

Rai ,

GameStop has sucked for a very long time and I’m astounded that so many people holding out hope for a meme stock to GO TO THE MOOOON again think it’s going to last.

Support local stores, death to GameStop

iAmTheTot ,

I’m not really holding out hope for anything, and I don’t own Gamestop stock.

I just don’t think that Game Informer closing down is the death knell of Gamestop.

Rai ,

That’s fair! I was part of the initial explosion of the stock, and sold the same day. The cult of GameStop loonies is still holding out hope to this day… it’s wild.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

When a business is closing many of its stores and shutting down a subsidiary that has been around for 30+ years with a pretty reputable name (instead of selling it, for example), thats usually a sign that the business is going to go bye bye in the near future.

Assman ,
@Assman@sh.itjust.works avatar

Don’t be left holding the bags

ampersandrew ,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Times change, but this magazine was great for a long time.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •