Game Informer closes its doors after 33 years

Respected US video gaming publication Game Informer has announced today that they have closed for good, which will come to a blow to the talented journalists working there along with fans of the magazine and the insightful Game Informer website and podcast. Kotaku reports that staff were all brought into a meeting on Friday with parent company GameStop’s VP of HR and told that the publication was closing immediately and that they were all laid off. Here’s the message Game Informer published on X.