A bit over half a yr after GameStop shut it down in August 2024, Game Informer is formally again and the complete staff is returning with it.
In a ‘Letter From the Editor’ by Game Informer Editor-In-Chief Matt Miller, it was revealed that Gunzilla Games secured the rights to Game Informer from GameStop and that it was planning to deliver again not solely the editorial staff, however “manufacturing and past.”
For these unfamiliar, Gunzilla Video games is the recreation developer and writer behind the free-to-play extraction battle royale recreation referred to as Off the Grid, which is now in Early Entry. It can also be the developer behind GunZ, the “Layer-1 blockchain ecosystem powering community-driven economies in AAA video games,” together with Off the Grid. Moreover, District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp is a part of the staff as Gunzilla’s chief inventive officer and co-founder.
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Moreover, Miller shared that the new house owners “insisted on the thought of Game Informer remaining an unbiased editorial outlet; they felt simply as strongly as our staff did that the solely path ahead was with an editorial group that made 100% of the choices round what we cowl and how we achieve this, with none affect from them or anybody else.”
To that finish, Game Informer is now working beneath a new entity referred to as Game Informer Inc. and the over 30-year historical past of the web site has returned after being shut off in August of final yr. The staff additionally selected to not go away a hole of their protection, so that they have “dozens” of new reviews from video games that have been launched throughout Game Informer’s hiatus and their Best of 2024 awards prepared to go.
And sure, Game Informer’s print journal may also be returning, however at a later date. Miller stated the staff needs it to be “larger and higher than it was earlier than.” In the coming weeks, Game Informer may also add membership and subscription advantages, an “expanded scope to our video, streaming, and characteristic protection,” and a mission to broaden the “vary of specialists and partnerships we faucet to deliver you these views.”
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