Your favorite Game Informer cover artworks (2024)

HockeyBird

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With the loss of Game Informer, we also lost a significant source of amazing videogame art. Often, these pieces were officially made from the videogame company themselves. The reveal of a Game Informer cover art and story was often the first big blow out of news information for a game. Unfortunately, the cover gallery on Gameinformer's own website is down. These contributions of gaming art are worth remembering so I thought it would nice for people to share their favorite covers from Game Informer's long history. Some of my favorites:

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amara

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Bengraven

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Oh that BOTW is great. That was when I stopped reading. Fuck I'd have loved that.

blamite

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I think this was the first issue I ever bought, so it's pretty memorable to me for that reason

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Lizard Wizard

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I subscribed for a couple years just because I loved these full art covers. That Breath of the Wild one is fantastic.

Scrobbles

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xir

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Am I nuts or did they get a rare final fantasy cover decades, a variant, ago

mrmickfran

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That Breath of the Wild one is spectacular

Akuma-san メカ豪鬼

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Bishop89

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sfedai0

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Damn, I have tons of GI mags sitting in the closet at my parents house. This has inspired me to bring all those mags back with me and make a reading area.

tarantullama

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Listening to the MinnMax Game Informer Reunion podcast and it inspired me to look for a thread like this. I hope other folks post more!

shoal

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Magnus

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Yo that mega man 11 one, wow

ASilentProtagonist

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Stibbs

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ghibli99

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I really liked the one for Control. Love the way the white light spilling in from the top perfectly intersects the 'm' and 'e' in 'game'.

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Loxley

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I'll never forget walking into Gamestop in 2004 and seeing this:

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The Oblivion screenshots completely blew me away.

GiveMeCoins

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Loxley said:

I'll never forget walking into Gamestop in 2004 and seeing this:

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The Oblivion screenshots completely blew me away.

My grandma got me a subscription with my gamecube around summer 2004 and reading up on Oblivion made me so hyped for an xbox 360. I learned about the Power PC.
So many hours reading this back to back in rural farm house to the kerosine lantern.

MG310

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Found the poster tube this was in - GS sold giant two sided posters of the Bioshock Infinite covers and I got mine signed by Troy Baker, Courtnee Draper and Ken Levine at NYCC that year

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Ashindoe

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Always gonna remember this one.

MarshallLaw

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Scrobbles said:

Feels weird seeing this image without all of the GOTY nonsense plastered over it. Such a good cover.

Some really beautiful ones here, particularly love the Control one - never actually seen that before!

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This one always stood out to me, absolutely gorgeous.

The Taken King for Destiny is also a winner

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Huey

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This is an excellent thread

TriMartolod

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Spesi

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This was pretty dope.

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But this must be one of the favorites. All NMS pre-release art was jusy really hitting home runs with the "old school" sci-fi vibe.

OceanSky

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