With 2025 coming to a close, the team at Insider Gaming wants to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.
Our team is taking a well-deserved break to end the year, and will return in full on Monday, January 5. In the meantime, there is plenty of content coming to the site over the next couple of weeks ranging from the results of the Insider Gaming Community Awards to year-in-review features and more.
Of course, should anything major break that needs coverage, we will bring it to you with the same speed and quality that Insider Gaming has become known for.
A Sincere Thank You
As we wind down 2025, we want to leave you with our sincerest thanks. Insider Gaming has only been around since 2022, and this year has been far and away our best year yet. And that’s all thanks to you, our dedicated readers.
Your support has made us one of the fastest-growing independent gaming media outlets. Whether it’s been reading our stories, watching our shows, participating in our community Discord, and even taking our surveys to help shape our future, everything you’ve done has helped turn Insider Gaming into what it is today.
And we can’t forget to talk about the biggest accomplishment of the year, the release of the Insider Gaming App. Since our launch, an app was one of the of the most requested things in our yearly reader surveys. You wanted a way to get your information in a quick and clean matter, and that’s what we brought you this year.
The free Insider Gaming App’s launch on iOS and Android has been nothing short of mind blowing. We had our goals of where we wanted to be with it by the end of the year, and you blew that out of the water. Again, thank you!
And lastly, to our Insider Gaming Premium and Premium Plus members. Running an independent gaming outlet in this era is hard of closures and consolidations is hard. To be honest, we were nervous about launching any sort of premium plan. But you all showed up and showed your support in a way that we couldn’t even have imagined. We can’t overstate just how much it means to us that you would support a small editorial team like ours in the way you have.
You are allowing us to do what we love to do, which is tell stories about the gaming industry and bring you the latest news, exclusive information, and reviews that you need to know about. And because of your support, we’ve been able to plan out even more features and content for Premium and Premium Plus subscribers. More details on that will be coming shortly after the start of the new year!
Thank you again to everyone who’s visited the site, downloaded the app, shared our work, and joined our discussions.
Here’s to an even better 2026!
Mike has been covering the gaming industry since 2012, and has reported on some of the largest events in the industry while also working as an investigative reporter. Outside of…
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