Post by Goobsausage on Feb 8, 2016 22:42:33 GMT -6
This announcement was made on the GameTrailers Facebook page.
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Reading this was an unexpected and a lame way to end my day. I think it's a bigger letdown for me than when I found out Nintendo Power was shutting down. Gaming coverage has pretty much migrated to Youtube and Twitch, but I used to rely on GameTrailers for my main source of gaming news, trailers, reviews, and E3 conferences from 2007-2012 and it introduced me to shows like "The Angry Video Game Nerd", "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin?", and ScrewAttack during the Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom era. They also had the best, most professional-sounding announcer I've heard in gaming videos.
Anyone else have any thoughts or feelings towards GameTrailers?
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After 13 years, GameTrailers is closing down today.
When GameTrailers was founded in 2002, internet video was a revolutionary concept. YouTube wouldn’t be founded for another three years; consumer live streaming was nine years away. Back then, online game journalism was still dominated by text articles and static imagery. The most prestigious coverage still happened in print. If you wanted to watch a show about video games, you had to watch it on a special TV station that had 10 shows.
GameTrailers helped change all that. Today, game journalism is dominated by video: trailers, live gameplay, Let’s Plays, and news shows. Now there are millions of hours of content available at any time on your PC, your game console, your TV, and your phone.
We’re proud we helped bring this world into being. That is the legacy of GameTrailers. We're grateful to all of our fans who helped make us successful. Thank you for your continued support over the years. It has been an adventure.
When GameTrailers was founded in 2002, internet video was a revolutionary concept. YouTube wouldn’t be founded for another three years; consumer live streaming was nine years away. Back then, online game journalism was still dominated by text articles and static imagery. The most prestigious coverage still happened in print. If you wanted to watch a show about video games, you had to watch it on a special TV station that had 10 shows.
GameTrailers helped change all that. Today, game journalism is dominated by video: trailers, live gameplay, Let’s Plays, and news shows. Now there are millions of hours of content available at any time on your PC, your game console, your TV, and your phone.
We’re proud we helped bring this world into being. That is the legacy of GameTrailers. We're grateful to all of our fans who helped make us successful. Thank you for your continued support over the years. It has been an adventure.
Anyone else have any thoughts or feelings towards GameTrailers?
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