Gaming journalism stalwart Game Informer has risen from the ashes. More than thirty years after its debut issue back in August 1991, the media outlet was officially by parent company GameStop in August 2024. Since then, the rights to Game Informer were acquired by Gunzilla Games and, in an all-to-rare win for today’s media world, the entire team that worked for Game Informer at the time of its closure will return to their jobs.
Editor-in-Chief Matt Miller the details about how the outlet was saved from the brink and noted that Gunzilla Games will be a hands-off boss. “The new owners insisted on the idea of Game Informer remaining an independent editorial outlet,” he wrote. “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…
