I wanted to take some time today to thank all of you for the outpouring of support we’ve heard in recent weeks as we’ve relaunched the magazine subscription program. Many of you have shared your excitement about seeing the magazine’s return on social media and by email. I’ve also been so pleased to hear from many of you who share our enthusiasm for the new partnership, raising funds for St. Jude through each subscription sold. And we are as excited as you are about the first issue coming out soon. The whole team is eager to hear what you think.
If you’ve been waiting to sign up for a subscription, now is the best time to get that low early-bird price. We can only hold early-bird pricing open for a few more days, until June 25, which is also the last day to sign up and still receive our first issue back from the hiatus. Even as we strive to find success as a new company with a long-established identity, we purposefully chose to set our initial price as low as possible in these early weeks as a thank you to our readers for helping us launch this new era of Game Informer.
As a team, we want to honor that show of support; I hope you’ll find what we’re pulling together over the coming year to be worth your hard-earned money.
Yesterday, we revealed our first big cover story, which is coming out next week. Borderlands 4 is one of the most anticipated games of the fall, but the chief reason we chose to highlight the game is how excited we were by what we saw and played of it. I can’t share all of the big cover stories and features in the works for later in the year. But I can say that some of the stories we’re lining up include other likely blockbusters like Borderlands 4, even as we’re also in talks with a number of studios to highlight experimental and indie projects to help you discover something new. I can’t wait to share what’s in the oven. I hope you’ll let us know what you think as we make those announcements.
The extra pages we’ve added to the new magazine also mean we’re able to include a broader selection of contributing writers. We love the idea of letting Game Informer be an outlet for the incredible creative ideas of other gaming writers, and from this first issue on, you’ll see familiar names drawn both from prior Game Informer writers and other talented voices from across the industry.
Earlier today, we also announced that one of Game Informer’s video projects, a Humanity documentary we released last year, took home a Gold Viddy Award. I’m immensely proud of our team for the accolade. In both long- and short-form settings, you’ll see us expand our video efforts in the coming months. Your subscriptions and viewership support these kinds of deep dives into games, as well as all the reviews, gameplay, and other video work we’re aiming to roll out.
Those videos will sit side by side with our expanded approach to digital exclusives, including native website access for subscribers to our digital magazine when it launches next week, as well as regular additional subscriber-only articles alongside more targeted spotlights on our 30-plus-year magazine archive and all its many articles.
If you haven’t yet taken the plunge and signed up for a subscription, I hope you’ll consider doing so in the coming days. Join the many fellow players who’ve already signed up, enrich your gaming hobby with deeper insights, and help support Game Informer’s return. We so appreciate your enthusiasm. Thank you!
Play well. Be well.
Matt Miller
Game Informer
Editor-in-Chief