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Goodbye to the GIA
- Posted By Michael
Loewer, 04.02.2002
I was reading Penny-Arcade late yesterday, and discovered an interesting little tidbit concerning the Gamer's Intelligence Agency. Gabe and Tycho of PA are ardent GIA fans to a level of sickening obsession, so I imagine this was incredibly difficult for them to post:
The GIA is gone.
The last update occurred yesterday, April 1st, along with an entire news article devoted to the reasons behind the site shutdown and going away letters from the entire staff. The site will finally leave the web entirely on April 30th, when the site is deleted from their current hosts servers.
We never got to know the GIA the same way we did the crew at IGN, Nintendojo, or even our uh, "friends" over at Planet GameCube. Nonetheless, they're major players in the online fansite genre, and deserve a whole crapload of credit. With an opening day launch visitation of 85 uniques, they were recently averaging 36,000 per day. The site was staffed by non-corporate, non-paid gamers, just a bunch of guys spending eight hours a day writing about the games they love.
The reason for the shutdown? Burnout. We've only been around for a year, but they've been around for FOUR -- hell of a work ethic. That's what I hope readers of all gaming fansites get out of this: other than a few exceptions, most of us put in a good 4 or more hours a day, every day, un-paid. Our only bonuses involve a few free games and press passes to E3 or Spaceworld -- that we still have to pay for. I'm certainly not asking any readers to give money to us or anyone else, just keep in mind how much effort is involved in bringing you coverage of the gaming world.
Peace out, GIA.
Editor-in-Chief Michael Loewer, out.
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