After more than half a year since GameStop shut down Game Informer, the publication’s editor-in-chief, Matt Miller, revealed in an announcement video on Game Informer’s YouTube channel that the gaming magazine’s legacy will continue in 2025 under new owership as Game Informer is officially back alongside “100 percent of the team…production, design, video, editorial, everybody [and] everthing you loved about Game Informer.”
To emphasize the point, we see the people in the video who made Game Informer what it was before the shutdown this past summer. Those familiar faces include Alex Van Aken (senior video editor), Marcus Stewart (senior associate editor), Wesley LeBlanc (senior associate editor), Charles Harte (associate editor), Laleh Azarshin (creative director), Mónica Rexach Ortiz (graphic designer), Rachel Castle (marketing coordinator), Jon Woodey (production developer), Kyle Hilliard (executive editor), and Brian Shea (executive editor). The revived Game Informer is returning, but Shea says that everything about it is returning this time. They are rethinking and evolving the publication into something bigger and better in print and digital forms.
“Of course, we were devastated when Game Informer shut down this past summer because we loved working together as a tea,m but the thing that came as a shock was the outpouring of support and enthusiasm that came from you as readers and from people around the industry for what Game Informer had meant to them. I personally received messages from people who talked about growing up reading Game Informer and being excited about getting that magazine in their mailbox every month and what that meant for them. We felt that that meant something and that it was something that was worth trying to fight for and preserve, so that’s what we did,” Miller said.
The comeback was made possible thanks to Gunzilla Games, which purchased Game Informer, and now the publication will run independently as Game Informer Inc., and its content will operate with editorial integrity without any outside influence under new ownership, which Gunzilla Games insisted on as much as the Game Informer team. This is just the first day of the comeback, but the team behind Game Informer will look out for more information on the relaunch of Game Informer’s physical magazine in the coming months.
Until then, you can go to Game Informer’s website and check out the full return of the archive. You can also check reviews of recent games, which the Game Informer team has been putting together since they returned full-time on February 17th in prep for the return. That includes its 2024 Game of the Year list, which Astro Bot may or may not be a top contender.
