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Also known as GT, gametrailers.com

GameTrailers (GT) was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002. The website specialized in multimedia content, including trailers and gameplay footage of upcoming and recently released video games, as well as an array of original video content focusing on video games, including reviews, countdown shows, and other web series.

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It sits within the topics 2005 mergers and acquisitions, 2014 mergers and acquisitions and Cinemassacre.

Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.

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Website.name
GameTrailers
Website.logo_caption
The website's final logo used from 2012 to 2016
Website.location
Santa Monica, California, United States
Website.founder
Geoffrey R. Grotz, Brandon Jones
Website.industry
Video game journalism
Website.owner
IGN
Website.registration
Optional
Website.language
English
Website.current_status
Brand continued as a YouTube channel hosting archived videos and new video game trailers
Podcast.title
Invisible Walls
Podcast.hosting
Shane Satterfield Marcus Beer Ryan Stevens (episodes 239–284)
Podcast.language
English
Podcast.updates
Weekly (Fridays)
Podcast.length
Approximately 30–90 minutes
Podcast.camera
Rich Brown
Podcast.audio format
MP3
Podcast.video format
MP4
Podcast.began
March 14, 2008

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.gametrailers.com
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inception
2002-00-00
Alexa rank
680968
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2016-00-00
social media followers
1120000
title
GameTrailers
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Contents
  • History
  • Original content
  • ''Invisible Walls''
  • Other shows
  • References
  • External links

GameTrailers (GT) was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002. The website specialized in multimedia content, including trailers and gameplay footage of upcoming and recently released video games, as well as an array of original video content focusing on video games, including reviews, countdown shows, and other web series.

GameTrailers was acquired by Viacom in November 2005; under its ownership, GameTrailers also produced a television series, GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley, for sister property Spike TV. In 2014, the site was acquired by Defy Media. In February 2016, the site was shut down; rights to GameTrailers' brand and content were sold to IGN Entertainment, which continues to run its YouTube channel. GT's remaining staff went on to found the independent gaming publication Easy Allies.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GameTrailers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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