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‘Our 33-year legacy deserves a genuine goodbye’: Game Informer staff tweets one last goodbye after all of their work was deleted, then GameStop nukes the account from orbit

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‘Our 33-year legacy deserves a genuine goodbye’: Game Informer staff tweets one last goodbye after all of their work was deleted, then GameStop nukes the account from orbit

Last week, GameStop abruptly shut down its long-running gaming magazine, Game Informer. The staff was blindsided by the news when they got to work on Friday morning—all 13 employees were laid off on the spot, and the next magazine issue, which was nearly complete, will not be finished.

GameStop announced the shutdown on the official Game Informer X account with a goodbye statement thanking readers for being a part of its “epic quest.” Game Informer staff suggested they had nothing to do with the brief, cringey statement that reads like ChatGPT output. Soon after, they were alarmed to find that the entire Game Informer website had disappeared: years and years of articles had been replaced with the same GameStop statement.

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