GameTrailers is shutting down its video trailer web site.
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GameTrailers shuts game video hub after 13 years

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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GameTrailers said today on Twitter that it is shutting down after 13 years of debuting video trailers for video games.

The comes a year after Viacom sold the company to Defy Media in a deal that led to a number of layoffs. And it’s puzzling that a video site would suffer such a fate amid the rise of game video platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. Evidently, those sites became powerful enough as game media producers that GameTrailers couldn’t compete.

GameTrailers opened its doors in the summer of 2002, and I recall watching plenty of big games debuting on its platform. It quickly became the best resource for viewing trailers of upcoming games.

The founders were Geoffrey Grotz and Brandon Jones. Jones tweeted about the demise of GameTrailers.

 

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.