Re:GameTrailers Is Closing Down After 13 Years
by traspler on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:09PM
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It does seem very sudden.
They just launched a complete site re-design/re-write (which went pretty horrible) and according to their shows they just (weeks ago) moved to new offices.
The launch of the new website was absolutely horrible. Player often didn't work, comments broken, etc. and in retrospect the office move seems sub optimal as they did not appear to be happy with the new space they got.
http://kotaku.com/video-game-website-gametrailers-closes-aft...
I don't want this to sound like a snarky "Oh [some company the Twiteratti thinks is lame] is still around?" comment, but I truly had thought GT was dead, because of its notable layoff announcements in recent years:
[Layoffs hit GameTrailers day after E3 (2014)](http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/13/5807898/gametrailers-layoff...)
[GameTrailers, GameFront and The Escapist Hit By Layoffs (2015)](http://www.craveonline.com/culture/813763-gametrailers-gamef...)
But looks like this really is GT's epitaph; this forum post dated today comes from GT's associate editor (according to Kotaku), and alludes to this being a sudden development:
> Hi everyone, Ben here. I just wanted to confirm that GameTrailers is shutting down officially today. Everyone is being let go. We all found out mere hours ago, so we're still reeling a bit. Sincerely, thank you all for the tremendous support.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=194642343&postcou...
Best of luck to the GT former employees.