We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
“In tearing down Game Informer’s website, GameStop has torn the nervous system out of a huge part of gaming media’s dying body. You now can’t read any old Game Informer posts, and most of the old links pointing towards them work anymore. Where Game Informer once stood there’s now nothing but a gaping black hole, with torn wires hanging around its edges. Were it not for the Internet Archive (and Wikipedia editors’ herculean efforts in substituting its links with archived substitutes) salvaging some old stories and links, it would be as though the site had never existed in the first place.” —
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Aftermath,
archives,
Game Informer,
games,
GameStop
