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Game Informer began publication in August 1991 as a six-page circular distributed inside a single video game store. The first editor-in-chief was Elizabeth Olson, who worked alongside Andy McNamara as her editorial assistant. The magazine shifted to a monthly schedule in November 1994.
Game Informer was acquired by Gunzilla Games on the 25th of March 2025. This acquisition established the magazine as its own business independent of the GameStop retail empire. The new ownership relaunched the website and restored the digital archive.
GameStop leadership shut down Game Informer on the 2nd of August 2024. The shutdown ended 33 years of publication and 368 issues. The official website was replaced with a static farewell page, making old articles unreadable.
Game Informer Australia closed on the 18th of April 2019 due to cost-cutting measures from its publishing company, EB Games Australia. Editor David Milner noted that despite readership being up 19% over the last year, ad sales did not reflect this growth. The failed attempt by GameStop to find a buyer for the Australian operation caused its shares to drop.
Game Informer reached a circulation of over 8 million copies by 2011. The magazine climbed to third place in 2011 with 8 million copies circulated. In 2019, the magazine reached a peak of 7 million copies sold before financial struggles began to mount.
Elizabeth Olson was the first editor-in-chief of Game Informer. She worked alongside Andy McNamara as her editorial assistant before they became coeditors-in-chief by 1993. McNamara eventually took sole control of the publication.