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Game Informer’s Resurrection is Upon Us
- Taylor Rioux
- Mar 25
- 3 min read
Minnesota, rise up.
March 25, 2025 — Six days after a series of social media teasers turned heads in the gaming sphere, Game Informer has officially announced their return to life — now as an entity independent of the GameStop brand. The initial teaser push had some (including myself) briefly worried about the new direction — would the old staff return? Would the scope of the magazine remain intact? These concerns were quickly alleviated on my end when many of the old staff posted teasers of their own.
Game Informer was abruptly shuttered in August, 2024 after 33 years in publication, which came as a shock to many others in the industry, but was even more of a shock to me, specifically. As a Minnesota boy who grew up reading Game Informer, I always looked forward to getting those issues in the mail, and always felt a more personal connection to Game Informer due to our shared Minnesota roots. I got my first Super NES at FuncoLand (the original owners of the magazine), spent years reading the reviews or features in the magazine, and took pride in knowing that GI was based right here in my home state. In a landscape dominated by media and outlets from NYC and LA, you might be fooled into thinking that the only places (and voices) that mattered were there, but Game Informer was proof positive that this was not true.
All of which is to say that I was deeply saddened by its eventual end in 2024. I no longer subscribed to the print magazine, but I did continue to read their articles, and they maintained a level of quality rarely matched in the field. We lost a pillar of the games journalism industry that day. Now they’re back and promising some changes going forward.
The first major point to come out of this return announcement might just be the best one — all of the staff initially laid off last year are back; 100% of the team who worked there last summer have returned. There is a promise of making Game Informer bigger and better than ever, but the exact details of content changes have not yet been revealed. Instead, the announcement was used as an opportunity to elaborate on some of the structural changes that have occurred since GI first went dark.
Per their own announcement article, the Game Informer brand was purchased by the team at Gunzilla Games. As far as their independence goes, EIC Matt Miller writes:
“From the start, the new owners insisted on the idea of Game Informer remaining an independent editorial outlet; they felt just as strongly as our team did that the only path forward was with an editorial group that made 100 percent of the decisions around what we cover and how we do so, without any influence from them or anyone else.”
Also returning for public view are the old articles that were lost during the shutdown. Thousands of articles from their storied history are back online, with new articles and features ready to read alongside them. While there is currently no way to obtain print versions of older issues of the magazine, they do offer the ability to view archived digital versions of more recent issues.
Full glad am I to see GI back on its feet, and I’m ecstatic to see they’ve maintained some level of editorial independence in the process. Miller has promised a continued focus on highlighting the latest and best games, celebrating gaming’s history, and to spotlight the creators and players that make gaming so great. I can’t wait to see where GI goes next.
Image Credits: Game Informer
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