GameTrailers
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GameTrailers (GT) was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002. The website specialized in multimedia content, including trailers and gameplay footage of upcoming and recently released video games, as well as an array of original video content focusing on video games, including reviews, countdown shows, and other web series.
Key facts
- Website.name
- GameTrailers
- Website.logo_caption
- The website's final logo used from 2012 to 2016
- Website.location
- Santa Monica, California, United States
- Website.founder
- Geoffrey R. Grotz, Brandon Jones
- Website.industry
- Video game journalism
- Website.owner
- IGN
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.language
- English
- Website.current_status
- Brand continued as a YouTube channel hosting archived videos and new video game trailers
- Podcast.title
- Invisible Walls
- Podcast.hosting
- Shane Satterfield Marcus Beer Ryan Stevens (episodes 239–284)
- Podcast.language
- English
- Podcast.updates
- Weekly (Fridays)
- Podcast.length
- Approximately 30–90 minutes
- Podcast.camera
- Rich Brown
- Podcast.audio format
- MP3
- Podcast.video format
- MP4
- Podcast.began
- March 14, 2008
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica
- Owned by
- MTV
- Official website
- www.gametrailers.com
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- inception
- 2002-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- Alexa rank
- 680968
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-00-00
- social media followers
- 1120000
- place of publication
- Santa Monica
- title
- GameTrailers
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Original content
- ''Invisible Walls''
- Other shows
- References
- External links
GameTrailers (GT) was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002. The website specialized in multimedia content, including trailers and gameplay footage of upcoming and recently released video games, as well as an array of original video content focusing on video games, including reviews, countdown shows, and other web series.
GameTrailers was acquired by Viacom in November 2005; under its ownership, GameTrailers also produced a television series, GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley, for sister property Spike TV. In 2014, the site was acquired by Defy Media. In February 2016, the site was shut down; rights to GameTrailers' brand and content were sold to IGN Entertainment, which continues to run its YouTube channel. GT's remaining staff went on to found the independent gaming publication Easy Allies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GameTrailers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.