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GamePro Shutting Down After 22 Years

peonyu

peonyu

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"Popular gaming magazine GamePro has shut down its U.S. operations after 22 years of publications by its parent company IDG. GamePro's website, which has been online for about 13 years, will be converted to a gaming channel and incorporated into PCWorld on Dec. 5. Sources within the magazine say GamePro's employees, including its executives, received phone calls this morning with the news. The news comes as a relative surprise, as GamePro experienced its highest traffic ever last week. The company also released its first quarterly magazine earlier this month after deciding monthly print issues were too costly to maintain."

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Surprised it took so long tbh, I used to read them as a kid in the 90s so Gamepro has some Nostalgia with me.
 
I have an issue from the late 90s around here somewhere. Really, I'm surprised gaming mags are still published.
 
EGM and Gamepro were awesome in paper form.

gamepro's website sucked bad, and I think EGM is 1up which is actually good.
 
GamePro was absolute garbage.

Most gaming mags are, but in 2004-2005, I somehow won a free 2 year subscription to them. So every month, I'd open it up and thumb through it, and it was always trash. Clearly they were aimed for the younger audience (early to mid teens), so I can't fault them TOO much, but I always came away knowing next to nothing about the game they were reviewing or previewing.

Of course, back in the early 90s I would have my parents get them for me from the grocery store, so I could know what totally radical new SNES game was around the corner. In those days, it was fine.

About the only print gaming mag I miss was Next Generation (from the mid 90s), and PC Gamer (same era).
Boot and PC Accelerator never really did it for me...
 
I agree that Gamepro was largely garbage, its the only one that really lasted until now though. In that sense its the final nail in the coffin for the game magazine era.

Next generation magazine was of course a awesome magazine and its the only one I would buy today if it was still around [provided it was still quality as it was then]. They had a enormous amount of insight in that magazine thats hard to find even on the gaming sites on the internet today [good journalists are hard to come by].
 
peonyu said:
I agree that Gamepro was largely garbage, its the only one that really lasted until now though. In that sense its the final nail in the coffin for the game magazine era.

Next generation magazine was of course a awesome magazine and its the only one I would buy today if it was still around [provided it was still quality as it was then]. They had a enormous amount of insight in that magazine thats hard to find even on the gaming sites on the internet today [good journalists are hard to come by].
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Gameinformer is still out there and its first issue was 1991, I get a issue ever month so I can know what coming out. Gameinformer is still going strong.
 
I'm kind of surprised they lasted this long. GamePro and EGM were my bibles when I was a kid. I'd go grocery shopping with my dad just so I could pick up the newest EGM or GamePro. There's an outside chance that I still may have a ton of back issues in my parents' garage. Kinda sad to hear. GamePro was a staple of my childhood.
 
leadeater211 said:
Gameinformer is still out there and its first issue was 1991, I get a issue ever month so I can know what coming out. Gameinformer is still going strong.
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They are owned by Gamestop and subsidized by them, they dont really count as a independent mag.

If they were independent and had to deal with newsstands and circulation I dont think they would have made it aslong as Gamepro had.
 
My brother and I used to read them when we were kids along with Nintendo Power.

I don't recall if it was Game Pro or EGM but one of them was broken down pretty well in that it'd have a by system/console breakdown for each section.

I'd always just go straight for lets say the Playstation Reviews section and skim through to see if there was anything I cared enough to read about. Then I'd move on to the upcoming games section and see what was out on the horizon.

Was a quick and consumer friendly way to quickly see if any new games were out and worth looking into more as well as what was to come that looked promising.

I actually had a free subscription to EGM in the early to mid 2000's that just never expired. Every single year they send notices to renew and I never did and it just kept coming for years until it finally went belly up and then they replaced it for free with Maxim magazine, which I thought was really a odd choice to replace a gaming magazine that probably was more kid focused as much as young adult.
 
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KaOTiK said:
Even as a kid I thought GamePro was crap. I'm surprised they lasted this long.
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I agree. I noticed they would never call out a game for being rubbish. They'd always end their gaming reviews with something along the lines of, "So if you like this type of game, then you may want to check this one out."
 
I liked them in early 90s, but then it just got meh after so long. I'm kind of mad at my younger self for shredding up alot of those magazines. Not so much for personal value, as much as nostalgia value.
It's lol going back & seeing those advertised games & high-end gaming machines. "AN AMAZING 4 GIGS HARD DRIVE & 32MB RAM! OMG! AWZUM!"

But yea. I thought they were irrelevant & defunct long ago by now.
 
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