Bad news for readers and employees of the long-running gaming magazine:
After 22 years of publication, popular gaming magazine GamePro‘s U.S. operations have been shut down by its parent company IDG, VentureBeat has learned.
Multiple sources within the magazine confirmed that GamePro employees, including executives, received phone calls first-thing this morning with the dreaded news. GamePro’s U.S. website, which has been online for 13 years, will be incorporated into a gaming channel at sister site PCWorld on December 5. The majority of GamePro staff will be laid off.
“Basically, the entire [Gamepro US] portfolio is being shuttered,” a source at the magazine told VentureBeat.
I subscribed to GamePro for a while back in the day. It was a great little publication, and it’s really a shame that ad revenue couldn’t keep up with costs.
Hopefully the employees find themselves on their feet sooner than later. This is a bad time to lose your job. And it’s never a good time to lose yet another magazine, but especially one that was as top-notch as GamePro.
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