Over the past week or so, you may have noticed that the Gameindustry.com site was down for maintenance. Over the past several years, our wonderful user base has been growing by leaps and bounds, and our old hardware was starting to strain at the edges. As such, we decided to move everything over to a new, improved interface that should provide a much speedier environment for everyone. We hope you all enjoy the new experience.

There will be a few other changes being made over the next few weeks, including phasing out our weekly newsletter. We love the newsletter, but e-mail has become less and less popular these days as everyone gets inundated with spam. Also, eliminating the newsletter will allow us to post features like reviews closer to a game’s release date, instead of waiting for a weekly newsletter slot to open up. We hope that this too will create a speedier experience for readers, not just in terms of the site itself, but also by getting features and reviews over to you more quickly.

Thanks again for being a reader and hopefully a fan of Gameindustry.com and GiN over the past 15 years. With your help and support, we hope to keep at it for 15 more.

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