A little bit over half a yr after GameCease shut it down in August 2024, Game Informer is formally again and the entire 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 GameCease and that it was planning to deliver again not solely the editorial staff, however “manufacturing and past.”
For these unfamiliar, Gunzilla Games is the sport developer and writer behind the free-to-play extraction battle royale recreation referred to as Off the Grid, which is now in Early Access. 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. Additionally, 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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Furthermore, Miller shared that the brand new homeowners “insisted on the concept of Game Informer remaining an impartial editorial outlet; they felt simply as strongly as our staff did that the one path ahead was with an editorial group that made 100% of the choices round what we cowl and the way we achieve this, with none affect from them or anybody else.”
To that finish, Game Informer is now working below a brand 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 spot of their protection, so that they have “dozens” of new reviews from video games that had been launched throughout Game Informer’s hiatus and their Best of 2024 awards able to go.
And sure, Game Informer’s print journal may even be returning, however at a later date. Miller mentioned the staff needs it to be “greater and higher than it was earlier than.” In the approaching weeks, Game Informer may even add membership and subscription advantages, an “expanded scope to our video, streaming, and have protection,” and a mission to broaden the “vary of specialists and partnerships we faucet to deliver you these views.”
If you have an interest, you possibly can create a new Game Informer account to remain up-to-date with the whole lot occurring on the web site. It may even earn you early advantages like entry to the Game Informer Magazine Archive, an unique weekly publication, Dark Mode, and Early-Bird Founder Access.
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