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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, Editor-In-Chief Andrew Reiner says goodbye to Game Informer after nearly 30 years and passes the torch to Magazine Content Director Matt Miller. We chat about how Reiner got a job at Game Informer in 1991 and some fantastic memories he made along the way. Matt shares his vision for our company and how his 18-year tenure has prepared him for becoming our new Editor-In-Chief. At the end of the episode, Reiner says thank you to every person he's worked closely with since he first joined the company.

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0:00.0	What is going on, everybody? Welcome to the Game Informer Show. I'm your host, Alex
0:24.2	Van Aiken. Thanks for tuning in. New episodes come out every Friday. Now, I'm not doing
0:28.7	the normal feel because this episode is a little bit different. Number one, we're in person. This
0:34.0	is probably the first game informer show in person. I guess in summer game festival before that
0:38.0	it was years. Yeah, years since 2019. Yeah. So editor in chief, Andrew Reiner. Welcome.
0:44.8	Hello. And new editor in chief, Matt Miller. Welcome. Thank you. Yeah. So Reiner, you announced
0:52.5	the other day that you are leaving game informer after 30 years. Yep. Miller is going to be taking
0:58.1	your place. Miller, you've been here 15. 18 years, I think. Oh, God. Okay. Even more. Jesus.
1:03.3	We're not going to say 20. Yeah. 18 years. Jesus. Okay. Yeah. Both of y'all have our very loyal workers.
1:11.7	What we both really, I think, love game informer. And I think we spent a large chunks of our career
1:18.6	here because there's something special about, or at least we think there's something special about
1:23.1	the place. Yeah. Definitely. So I guess we'll start with you, Reiner. We'll kind of just start with
1:29.6	the last week. You know, your thought process behind the move. Obviously, you know, you're onto
1:36.6	a cool new adventure that you haven't done before. That's exciting. But yeah, I'll just give you
1:40.1	the floor for a second. Yeah. You know, I always thought I'd be at game informer forever. You know,
1:44.8	I thought, you know, you guys are the varying me someday, you know, departing in the voids. Yeah.
1:50.4	You know, putting a thrown magazines into my coffin, you know, if it's getting lowered down
1:54.9	instead of where people throw roses, yeah, you throw the magazines on me. Yeah.
1:58.8	Yeah. Maybe some consoles just loaded up in there. But yeah, I always thought I'd be here forever.
2:03.6	And then I got offered a position that I just couldn't say no to. And I immediately said, yes,
2:10.5	right? Like I was like, oh, I should have probably negotiated or something. And I was like, one of
2:15.6	those just, oh my God, yes, I want to do this. And then, you know, over the weekend, I was like,
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