GamePro is closed. Gone. Done. The November magazine issue will be the last printed, and the website closes on December 5. Layoffs are underway, says IndustryGamers, though we don't know how many will be affected.
GamePro started back in 1989 as a monthly magazine and quickly became one of the biggest in the business. The print business has been steadily declining for years, though, and the magazine switched to quarterly publication earlier this year. The money is still running out, so now they're closing up shop.
The company, GamePro Media, is "refocusing its US business exclusively on its growing custom publishing and solutions business." The new gig is under the name GamePro Custom Solutions. They will create custom content for events and vendors now. What a sad end.
What about the website? It will redirect to pcworld.com now.
What a shame. Our best goes out to the staff.
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3:15 PM on 11.30.2011 | 
Best of luck to the staff.
All that was left was a bias mobile site that trolled
I was always a fan of egm over gamepro. That being said, it's still a shame to see them go.
Rip, and I hope everyone finds work afterward.
RIP Scary Larry.
I remember it was always a cool thing to go to the supermarket and browse GameFan, GamePro and EGM which you waited for your parents.
Now I just spend my time checking Destructoid and flipping over to Siliconera.
I love Edge Magazine but the inconvenience the consumer is put through is often not worth the trouble when it comes to magazines.
Game Informer would be gone to without GameStop behind it leveraging so much exclusive content.
R.I.P. all the great mags.
GamePro was such a part of my childhood. My first published artwork was in their letter column. I used to wake up at 6am on Saturdays to watch their TV show. The story of their artistic director's career inspired me to believe a self-taught artist could catch a break and make a living.
This day way gray already. Now it's mournfully black. RIP GamePro. Now I'll never know what's Hot at the Arcades.
I just renewed my subscription to them.
I feel bad for GP. Bought a few issues and they were better than GI in my opinion. Sad.
But, good luck to the Gamepro staff.
I want people to realize this really quick: if there were no such thing as gaming magazines, games would come out more quickly without the required delay to get a review copy of the game to them, have them play it, write it up and then print thousands of issues, and then finally distribute it (just before the release date.)
I give them credit for the FunFactor aspect of their reviews.
They were good for codes too, how else would I have remembered the Bill Clinton code for NBA JAM SNES?
GamePro was terrible when I was a kid, and into the 00's.
Under John Davison's editorship (is that a word? It doesn't look like a word), it was the best American games mag running, like an Esquire for games.
Once he left, Tae Kim did a fine job, even if it did dip back into more typical "games mag" territory. I looked forward to every issue, even when it went quarterly.
The site's content - save for the reviews, which have generally been quite good - has never been quite as good as the more considered, precisely judged writing in the magazine, but writers like Kat Bailey and Jason Wilson really gave it their all, and it sucks to see the whole operation go belly-up just as the site was beginning to cohere in a real way.
We did lose something here. For the record.
@thealexfish:
That's an utterly ridiculous claim, and if it were true, it'd be just as true of gaming sites. Like the one you just posted on.
Furthermore, that you tacitly endorse people losing their jobs as long as you can get your video games quicker is everything wrong with gamers in one gross package. Grow a conscience, for God's sake.