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Strategy Guide Company Prima Games Is Shutting Down

Saturday November 10, 2018. 02:00 AM , from Slashdot
Prima Games, the publishing company that has printed video game strategy guides since it was founded in 1990, is shutting down. 'The label will no longer publish new guides starting now, and it will officially shutter in the spring,' reports Kotaku. From the report: Thanks to the rise of sites like GameFAQs -- and major gaming publications like IGN commissioning their own online guides, which bring in monstrous amounts of traffic -- print strategy guides have struggled for years now. In 2015, Prima purchased and swallowed its biggest competitor, BradyGames, and has been consistently churning out guides for both print and the web, but it wasn't enough to survive what the company called 'a significant decline' in the world of print video game guides.

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