The magazine has a obvious bias towards North American games and towards the xbox. I never had the opportunity to buy an xbox, so all my gaming systems after the super nintendo were the playstations. Before going further with the rant, you might call me a playstation fan boy, because when I had the opportunity to buy a new gaming system, I chose the PS3 instead of the xbox 360.
Anyways, I'm not so pissed by their bias towards xbox, but this leads them to focus more on American game releases, XBLA indie games and almost always top scoring reviews for multiconsole, "triple AAA" games. Almost all their magazine covers features an american game, I was amazed to see mario wii u was chosen as this month's cover. The only Japanese game to have a 10 score review is MGS4. They have a serious bias towards games like Call of Duty, Elder Scrolls and Mass Effect. Their 2011 best shooter was MW3, when clearly BF3 is a better game. Their 2011 game of the year and best RPG was Skyrim, yet the game is almost unplayable on PS3 and there were better RPGs that year. My favorite obviously was DkS, and I heard awesome feedbacks on the Witcher 2.
Their DkS review was lame, they gave it 8.75 and the guy didn't even played the PvP, one of the most exciting things of DkS. They haven't announced nothing on the DLC, nor gave a review to the PC Edition.
So that's it, goodbye gameinformer, I won't buy your subscription anymore. F*** the points. Not going to buy any used games from gamestop neither lol. If you guys can suggest good unbiased gaming magazines and sites it'll be very much appreciated.
TL;DR GI has a ridiculous bias towards the xbox and american games.