Game Informer Is Back and the Whole Team Is Returning With It Thanks to a New Owner: Neill Blomkamp's Video Game Studio

A small implicit fractional a twelvemonth aft GameStop unopen it down successful August 2024, Game Informer is officially backmost and the full squad 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 GameStop and that it was readying to bring backmost not lone the editorial team, but "production and beyond."

For those unfamiliar, Gunzilla Games is the crippled developer and steadfast down the free-to-play extraction conflict royale crippled called Off the Grid, which is present successful Early Access. It is besides the developer down GunZ, the "Layer-1 blockchain ecosystem powering community-driven economies successful AAA games," including Off the Grid. Additionally, District 9 and Chappie manager Neill Blomkamp is portion of the squad arsenic Gunzilla's main originative serviceman and co-founder.

Furthermore, Miller shared that the caller owners "insisted connected the thought of Game Informer remaining an autarkic editorial outlet; they felt conscionable arsenic powerfully arsenic our squad did that the lone way guardant was with an editorial radical that made 100 percent of the decisions astir what we screen and however we bash so, without immoderate power from them oregon anyone else."

To that end, Game Informer is present operating nether a caller entity called Game Informer Inc. and the implicit 30-year past of the website has returned aft being unopen disconnected successful August of past year. The squad besides chose to not permission a spread successful their coverage, truthful they person "dozens" of caller reviews from games that were released during Game Informer's hiatus and their Best of 2024 awards acceptable to go.

And yes, Game Informer's people mag volition besides beryllium returning, but astatine a aboriginal date. Miller said the squad wants it to beryllium "bigger and amended than it was before." In the coming weeks, Game Informer volition besides adhd rank and subscription benefits, an "expanded scope to our video, streaming, and diagnostic coverage," and a ngo to broaden the "range of experts and partnerships we pat to bring you those perspectives."

If you are interested, you tin make a caller Game Informer relationship to enactment up-to-date with everything happening astatine the website. It volition besides gain you aboriginal benefits similar entree to the Game Informer Magazine Archive, an exclusive play newsletter, Dark Mode, and Early-Bird Founder Access.

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