Game Informer is shutting down

Game Informer, one of the last remaining gaming magazines, is shutting down after 33 years, the GameStop-owned publication announced on Friday. The magazine’s entire staff is being laid off, Kotaku reports.

In its statement posted to X, the publication didn’t give a reason for the shutdown. GameStop didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. Last year, GameStop CEO and chairman Ryan Cohen told staff that “every expense at the company must be scrutinized under a microscope and all waste eliminated,” according to an email obtained by Kotaku.

In March, Game Informer introduced out a way to subscribe to the magazine directly — previously, you could only get the magazine by buying issues on their own or through a GameStop Pro subscription. “Hard times, layoffs, cancellations, and closures have impacted thousands of game developers and publishers, as well as other outlets like us that celebrate games,” editor-in-chief Matt Miller wrote in that announcement. “We haven’t been immune to that hardship.”

Here is the full shutdown statement from Game Informer’s X account and Game Informer’s subscription page: