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Game Informer debuted in August 1991 as an in-house newsletter created by FuncoLand owner David R. Pomijie. Elizabeth Olson was its first editor-in-chief, with Andy McNamara as her editorial assistant.
GameStop abruptly closed Game Informer on the 2nd of August 2024, laying off the entire staff and shutting down the website. The closure came after years of declining GameStop finances and multiple rounds of staff layoffs beginning in 2019.
Game Informer published 368 issues between August 1991 and July 2024, spanning 33 years. The July 2024 issue was the final print edition before GameStop shut down the publication.
Game Informer reached its peak in 2011 as the third-largest magazine in the United States, with more than 8 million copies circulated. It surpassed major titles including Time, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy.
Gunzilla Games, the developers of Off the Grid, purchased Game Informer and announced the acquisition on the 25th of March 2025. The relaunch restored the website, the digital archive, and the print magazine, and rehired the staff that had been dismissed at the original shutdown.
Game Infarcer was Game Informer's annual April Fools' Day edition, published every April. Articles ran under the name of a fictional editor-in-chief called Darth Clark, and reader hate mail addressed to Darth Clark was regularly reprinted in subsequent issues.