GamePro Closes Its Print and Digital Doors. F**k That Magazine.
GamePro was pretty rad at one point. Then I came to resent the shit out of it. It lived on, as other gaming magazines I loved died, and died, and died. Now it has finally succumbed, and I scratch dirt on its grave.
Gaming magazine icon GamePro announced that the November issue — its first quarterly installment — will be its last, after 20-plus continuous years of publishing. The website will also be closed, effective December 5, IndustryGamers reports. If you’re looking for gaming content, expect to be redirected to “the PCWorld GamePro channel on pcworld.com,” publisher IDG says. And that means that GamePro’s editorial staff is out, while PCWorld’s will attempt to make up the slack.
But GamePro isn’t going away completely; instead, it’s “refocusing its US business exclusively on its growing custom publishing and solutions business.” That means custom content, like the E3 show daily, which publisher IDG and GamePro historically produce. But for you, dear reader, GamePro is dead. So we leave you with the above video, of a simpler time, when magazines still ruled and jean jackets were still cool.
Now GameFan dying? That shit was tragic. (Though to everyone who lost their jobs, I sincerely feel bad for you through my cloud of bitterness.)
