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Key facts
- Editor
- Matt Miller
- Former editors
- Elizabeth Olson Andy McNamara Andrew Reiner
- Categories
- Video game
- Frequency
- Every 5 weeks (10 per year)
- Publisher
- FuncoLand (1991–2000) GameStop (2000–2024) Gunzilla Games (2025–present)
- Total circulation
- 8 million (2011) 7,585,296 (2017)
- First issue
- August 1991 ; 34 years ago ( 1991-08 )
- Country
- United States
- Based in
- Minneapolis
- Language
- English
- Website
- www .gameinformer .com
- Issn
- 1067-6392
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.gameinformer.com
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- inception
- 2025-00-00
- title
- Game informer magazine
- total produced
- 5954884
- social media followers
- 743000
- Commons category
- Game Informer
- web feed URL
- www.gameinformer.com/rss.xml
- privacy policy URL
- www.gameinformer.com/privacy
- terms of service URL
- www.gameinformer.com/terms
- Alexa rank
- 16669
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2024-08-00
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Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and game consoles. It debuted in August 1991, when the video game retailer FuncoLand started publishing an in-house newsletter. It was acquired by the retailer GameStop, which bought FuncoLand in 2000. Due to this, a large amount of promotion was done in-store, which contributed to the success of the magazine. As of June 2017, it was the fifth-most popular magazine by copies circulated.
In August 2024, GameStop discontinued Game Informer after 33 years of publication and 368 issues. The associated website was also shut down with its digital archive removed. In March 2025, Game Informer announced that it had been acquired by Gunzilla Games and established as its own business. The relaunch included a revival of the magazine's website, the restoration of the digital archive, and brought back all of Game Informer's laid off staff. Game Informer also restarted the publication of the print magazine in June 2025.