Product Description

Entertains and informs game players of all ages, with emphasis on the coverage of video games. Areas covered include new product and game reviews, industry news updates and an open forum for readers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211 in Magazine Subscriptions
• Format: Magazine Subscription

Customer Reviews

Best All Around
If you are looking for a trade journal that has good coverage of all the major game platforms (XBox, PlayStation, Gamecube, PC, and even Gameboy Advance the Game Informer is the best all around choice. Coverage varies according to popularity, so the lion's share goes to the PS2, Xbox, and PC. But the editorial staff do go beyond that, and even cover historical platforms and games as a regular feature.

The staff is not small, so you often will get multiple opinions and the rankings are surprisingly even handed, normally running between 6 and 9.5 on a 10 point scale. Descriptive analysis is consistently good. The magazines primary affiliations are with distributors, not publishers, and they pay more attention to helping you make the right decision for yourself.

Reviews are kept separate from previews, which I like. There are usually about three feature length stories in each issue. They keep charts of available releases, and often provide some minor cheats. This is really what I think a game magazine should be, rather than the pure hype and excessive advertising that often haunts 'house' publications. As I've already said - if you only want to pay for one, this would be it.

Outstanding!!!
I just wrote a review for OPM, and had forgotten about this magazine. I also used to subscribe, and had recently let my subscription run out. I will not say it is not because I do not like this magazine, but because I am trying to save some money. But the fact is, that this is probably the best multiplatform gaming magazine on the market.

The reviews are smart and fresh, never hackneyed, or cliched, the way a lot of other magazines are (and some of my reviews, sorry guys!). But the introductory article in each and every magazine, by the Chief editor, always sounds like it has been written by a Harvard Grad, with a Layman's ability to make everything easy to understand. He has a way of making every article within the magazine all come together. Never biased, they are not afraid of telling it like it is in their reviews.

I would highly recommend subscribing to this magazine, and like somebody else mentioned, better to go directly to the store, and get the discount card. After $150 - $200 in used game purchases, it pays for itself.

Highly recommend!

MC White said: If you're a gamer, than you gotta have this magazine!

EDIT: Believe it or not, when I got home, yesterday, just after writing this review, I had a copy of the September issue in my mailbox. I had forgotten, I had called Customer Service about a missed issue. They were nice enough to extend me a two issue subscription free of charge, to cover my missed issue. I was quite impressed, and tickled pink, when I got my newest copy in the mail, when I arrived at my posh homestead.

Thank you Game Informer for continued excellent service and a wonderful magazine.

Seems to Have A Split Personality
I subscribed to Game Informer about..... uh, 4 or 5 months ago, because I was thinking about dropping another gaming subscription. The first issue I got, I noticed in the small print on the Staff page that the magazine was funded or backed or put out or whatever by Gamestop. You know, the video game sales chain? Oh great, I thought, this is gonna be a cheery, all-positive buy-more-games propaganda mag. The wierd thing is...... it has a buttload of personality, and the captions and some of the writing bits are the funniest I've ever read in a magazine!! Then I got to the reviews section. They have 2 people review every game (with one of them getting a little sidebar thing at the end), which is nice, but with virtually every friggin' review, the 2 reviewers give the game THE SAME SCORE. That makes me wonder what's going on. Are they agreeing beforehand to give some games positive spin? I dunno, cuz the actual reviews seem really well-balanced and fair, not like Nintendo Power, where they gloss over the bad. Also? The rating scale is from 1 to 10, with 7 being "Average". I like it. That is all. I recommend this mag, especially if you're a younger kid, like preteen or below. Clean, pretty well-balanced reviews, and funny as hell!