Around the time Gameinformer was shut down without warning, I ran a scrape of The Internet Archive to get as much of the articles from the site as I could using the program SiteSucker. Limitations involving the speed and rate limits of The Internet Archive meant this was an incredibly slow process. After a few weeks I had ~15k files. After stripping out cover story hubs, random files, and AMP duplicates, we're left with about 7.6k articles. I imagine there must have been tens of thousands more published on the site that I wasn't able to get once the scraping aborted. There are still some duds in here that are mostly just posting videos or image galleries, sorry about that.
You will find in the /sorted folder a folder with your name on it that contains all the articles I have with your byline. These are the text only versions, heavily manipulated from the HTML files I had that were filled with tracking code, Wayback's inserted code, and other nonsense.
Becuase you guys were doing some funky stuff in there with newlines and tabs, some of the spacing may be weird in the files. I tried to cut back on most of that 😆
If there appears to be content missing in that txt file, then maybe my bulk operations on all the files didn't work for the contents of that article. If so – or if you just want to try to simulate what the article would have looked like – the full downloaded file can be found under this Github branch: https://github.com/tannerbaum/gi-archive/tree/sorted-full. They take forever to open which is why I wanted to cut these down to just the text content for you. If there is enough demand for it I can see if I can get a version of these pages that loads faster. Or maybe someone else can (see next section)
Thank you for all of the work you did over the years.
Please feel free to use these files however you like, or submit PRs with alternate sorting methods / modifications to the files. You can find a branch with the initial results of the scrape here, in case I screwed up somewhere. https://github.com/tannerbaum/gi-archive/tree/scrape. This also has some log files from SiteSucker in case anyone is especially familiar with that software and knows a way to resume the scraping.